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History's cottage industry
History’s cottage industry
Project area between Williams and John streets, in Providence; arrow points to cottage. (PHDC)
Monday’s meeting via Zoom of the Providence Historic District Commission surprised observers by delaying an expected vote to approve the relocation of a historic Victorian cottage on Williams Street, in College Hill. This was the second straight delay. That does not mean that neighbors oppose will be…
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A new prize in architecture
A new prize in architecture
Centre Pompidou, by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, in Paris. (Christian Science Monitor)
ArchNewsNow.com – the indispensable source of architecture commentary from around the world – is running a series responding to a petition by British architecture students dismayed at the reluctance of architecture schools to become more involved in political issues, especially climate change. The replies…
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Good news from the Big Apple
Good news from the Big Apple
111 West 57th St., designed by SHoP Architects.
The New York Times has published an article that, because it is in the New York Times, is sure to uplift the status of beauty on the architectural scene, in that city and elsewhere. “Bygone Romance Makes a Return” (“The Return of Golden Age Design” online), by Tim McKeough, ran on Page 1 of the Oct. 18 real-estate section subtitled: “With so many…
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Lame modernist rebuttal
Top, buildings by winners of Driehaus Prize (top left), painted by Carl Laubin; bottom, buildings by modernist architects, assembled in poster by modernist architect Rem Koolhaas.
Juxtaposed above are two images designed to suggest the basic difference between traditional and modern architecture. They may be assumed to reflect the general tastes in architecture of the authors of the essays…
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Postmodernist Edwardians
Kristen Richards, the founder and editor of the indispensable ArchNewsNow, sent me the other day a piece she said would interest me. Well, that was the understatement of the week. “Understanding British Postmodernism (Hint: It’s Not What You Thought),” by Timothy Brittain-Catlin in ArchDaily, was almost like me talking to myself.
Since I’m not British, that is odd. But I’ve always had cranky…
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Happy 14th birthday, ANN!
Happy 14th birthday, ANN!
Copley Place from the entrance of the Boston Public Library.
Today is ANN’s 14th birthday, the duoseptennial (neologism alert) anniversary of ArchitectureNewsNow.com – Kristen Richards’s glorious compendium of architectural news and opinion from around the world (at least the Anglosphere). I can think of no better way to commemorate this day than with the gift of fine architecture. I was in…
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Skyscraper vs. skyscraper
Rem Koolhaas’s iconic skyscxraper landscape poster. (rialnodesigns.com)
Hats off to Kristen Richards of ArchNewsNow.com for publishing a denunciation by CityLab of the (Toronto) Globe & Mail’s critic Eric Reguly’s piece “Why skyscrapers are killing great cities.” Otherwise we might not have seen the latter essay, which flies near to flawless in its critique of skyscrapers.
Its logic is why it…
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