Posts Tagged ‘architecture’
Friday, May 18th, 2012
Medellín, Colombia, once famed for murder and cocaine, is now drawing notice for its ambitious urban projects, many aimed at easing life in the city’s slums.
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Architecture Review: Fighting Crime With Architecture in Medellín, Colombia
Tags: architecture, ban, border, city, cocaine, colombia, murder, now-drawing, once-famed, the-city, urban-projects
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Wednesday, May 9th, 2012
The Brooklyn Botanic Garden will unveil a new visitor center and gateway at the northeast corner of the garden next Wednesday.
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Architecture Review: A New Visitor Center at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Tags: architecture, border, brooklyn, brooklyn botanic garden, brooklyn-botanic, corn, garden, new-visitor, north, northeast, the-garden, the-northeast
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Saturday, April 28th, 2012
With the colorful Marlins Park in Miami, baseball breaks from the now-familiar retro style into the 21st century.
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Architecture Review: Marlins Park in Miami, Baseball’s Newest Stadium
Tags: 21st, architecture, baseball-breaks, border, colorful, loria, jeffrey, marlins, marlins-park, miami, miami (fla), miami-marlins, retro-style, stadiums and arenas, the-colorful
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Saturday, April 7th, 2012
A Brutalist building faces demolition in Goshen, N.Y., raising questions about the future of unfashionably Modern midcentury structures.
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Unloved Building in Goshen, N.Y., Prompts Debate on Modernism
Tags: architecture, art, border, brutalist, building-faces, future, goshen, modern, raising-questions
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Wednesday, February 8th, 2012
Remedying the calamity that is Penn Station by moving Madison Square Garden to the Javits Center site is a way to bring back light and airy glory to New York’s transportation hub.
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Architecture: A Proposal for Penn Station and Madison Square Garden
Tags: airy-glory, architecture, border, calamity, garden, javits, koolhaas, rem, madison, madison square garden, remedying-the-calamity, sadik-khan, janette, station, the-calamity, transit systems
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Tuesday, February 7th, 2012
A planned memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower, with Frank Gehry as the architect, has raised hackles within the Eisenhower family.
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Eisenhower Family Raises Objections to Planned Memorial
Tags: architect, architecture, dwight, eisenhower, susan, frank, gehry, frank, monuments and memorials, planned-memorial, the-architect
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Wednesday, January 25th, 2012
Penn South, a housing development in Chelsea, and the ill-fated Pruitt-Igoe project in St. Louis shared a type of housing stock but little else.
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Critic’s Notebook: Penn South and Pruitt-Igoe, Starkly Different Housing Tales
Tags: architecture, border, chelsea, development, housing, housing-development, housing-stock, red, south, stock
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Saturday, January 7th, 2012
Charles Pierrepont Henry Gilbert’s town houses came to define the upper-class residence. But as a young man, he designed some flamboyant, urban dwellings in Brooklyn.
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Streetscapes | Brooklyn: Brooklyn/Streetscapes – C. P. H. Gilbert: The Wild Years
Tags: architecture, ban, border, brooklyn (nyc), charles-pierrepont, define-the-upper, designed-some, henry-gilbert, house, pierrepont, town-houses, urban-dwellings, young, young-man
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Friday, January 6th, 2012
We need to take parking lots more seriously, architecturally, and to think of them as public spaces, as part of the infrastructure of our streets and sidewalks.
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Arts & Leisure: Taking Parking Lots Seriously, as Public Spaces
Tags: architecture, automobiles, border, fiat spa|fiaty|other-otc, infrastructure, king, lots-more, nee, our-streets, pac, parking, parking garages and lots, public spaces, the-infrastructure
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Monday, January 2nd, 2012
All but the last remnant of the Arab neighborhood known as Little Syria is about to disappear from Lower Manhattan. But several young advocates are determined to save what they can.
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City Room: Trying to Save Remnants of Arab Life in Lower Manhattan
Tags: arab, architecture, border, buildings and landmarks, financial district (nyc), known-as-little, land use and planning, last-remnant, local history, real-estate, several-young, syria, world trade center, young
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Sunday, January 1st, 2012
After more than a decade in which San Francisco politics was partly defined by antidevelopment and historic preservation forces, a backlash has begun.
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The Bay Citizen: An Unlikely Group Rebels Against Preservation Districts
Tags: architecture, art, border, building (construction), development, forces, francisco, gun, law and legislation, politics and government, san francisco
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Friday, December 2nd, 2011
Alexander Garvin, an architect and urban planner, has spent the better part of the last half-century thinking about New York City’s public spaces.
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Arts & Leisure: Alexander Garvin Looks at Public Spaces in New York
Tags: alexander-garvin, architecture, art, ban, border, garvin, alexander, New York, new york city, pac, public, sidewalks, spent-the-better
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Saturday, October 29th, 2011
As Russia’s elite took part in the Bolshoi Theater’s opening gala, hundreds waited outside on a cold, miserable night for a glimpse of “Swan Lake” on two large screens.
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Joy and Nostalgia in Moscow as Bolshoi Theater Reopens
Tags: ait, architecture, art, elite-took, hundreds-waited, miserable-night, red, russia, two-large
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Sunday, October 16th, 2011
Apple’s free-standing stores, many with soaring glass entrances and staircases, are a testament to the design notions of Steve Jobs.
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Steve Jobs, a Genius of Store Design, Too
Tags: architecture, bohlin, peter, border, design, job, jobs, jobs, steven p, shopping and retail, the-design
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Saturday, October 15th, 2011
Everyone agreed that St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church would rise again. But it took 10 years to agree on exactly where and how.
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City Room: Smaller St. Nicholas Is Not Expected to Interfere With World Trade Center Development
Tags: architecture, christopher o. ward, church, cuomo, andrew m, ground-zero, highlights, land use and planning, lower-manhattan, manhattan, orthodox-church, rise, sept. 11 and ground zero, september 11 (2001), ward, christopher o
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