Category Archives: Architecture

PRESERVING GOOD ARCHITECTURE—OUTSIDE AND INSIDE (COMMENT).

Posted on November 17, 2011 by Philip

PRESERVING GOOD ARCHITECTURE—OUTSIDE AND INSIDE (COMMENT). Lee Bryant commented here on my post about my five favorite buildings and expressed consternation at the tearing down of Richmond’s Old City Hall (and its replacement by the equivalent of a “high-rise DMV”). … Continue reading →

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LOBBIES—NEW YORK BUILDINGS.

Posted on November 16, 2011 by Philip

LOBBIES—NEW YORK BUILDINGS. Many of the skyscrapers from the 1920′s and the 1930′s had beautiful interiors. The Empire Stat building was completed in 1931; the Chrysler building dates from 1920. This post from the Travels with Terry blog has a … Continue reading →

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LOBBIES—CHICAGO BUILDINGS.

Posted on November 15, 2011 by Philip

LOBBIES—CHICAGO BUILDINGS. Kids, My parents made a point of showing us the interiors of both the Rookery and the Marquette Building in Chicago. When I posted on my five favorite buildings, I listed the Rookery in Chicago because of its … Continue reading →

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FIXING UP THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.

Posted on November 14, 2011 by Philip

FIXING UP THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING. In about 1970, I served a subpoena in an office in the Empire State Building. The interior of the building was a disappointment. Ada Louise Huxtable had an article in the Wall Street Journal … Continue reading →

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SAND-CASTLE TECHNIQUES.

Posted on July 8, 2011 by Philip

SAND-CASTLE TECHNIQUES. Instapundit linked to this article in Popular Mechanics about sand-castle techniques. The keys to construction, as you may well know, are wet sand and compaction. The article has some photos of some tools that are used for carving … Continue reading →

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WILL 3D MOVIES CHANGE HOW WE LOOK AT THE WORLD?

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Philip

WILL 3D MOVIES CHANGE HOW WE LOOK AT THE WORLD? I posted here about how modern art and modern architecture have valued flatness. In the post I quoted Greg Kreutz: “…from the 1920′s onward…Depicting light and depth became something like … Continue reading →

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THE ROMANCE OF EDGELANDS.

Posted on May 13, 2011 by Philip

THE ROMANCE OF EDGELANDS. I have posted several times about the beauties that can be found in the industrial wastelands near our cities. I posted here about reviews of the book EDGELANDS by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts. But … Continue reading →

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ROOMS WITH “FLOW.”

Posted on April 22, 2011 by Philip

ROOMS WITH “FLOW.” We discovered when we were finally moving from our starter house six years ago that new houses were being built to provide “flow.” (I don’t know whether this is still true after the financial events of the … Continue reading →

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EDGELANDS AND POETRY.

Posted on March 18, 2011 by Philip

EDGELANDS AND POETRY. Here is a review by Marion Shoard–the environmentalist I quoted in yesterday’s post—of EDGELANDS, a new book by Paul Farley and Michael Symmons Roberts, They are two poets. Shoard calls them “the first bards of England’s edgelands.” … Continue reading →

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EDGELANDS AND ARCHITECTURE.

Posted on March 17, 2011 by Philip

EDGELANDS AND ARCHITECTURE. I have posted several times about finding beauty in the industrialized wastelands near our cities. Here is a post which points out that arsonists have been called “New York City’s incidental restorationists” and that “abandoned junk can … Continue reading →

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