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ArchiTalk: May 2014
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Saturday, May 31, 2014. True, a home's hallway is meant to be walked through, not lived. In But why not make your trek from Point A to Point B pleasurable? Placing a diversity of art accents in your entry hall can warm your guests' welcome by introducing them to your artistic tastes, and can prompt you, too, to slow down and taste life's pleasures. The right-hand abstract painting enlivens the wall with a sense of stop-and-start motion in the fo...
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ArchiTalk: April 2012
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Thursday, April 26, 2012. Photo by David Wilton, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. The perpetually perplexing polarity between the Titanic's. Architectonic advancement and technological tragedy defies artistic interpretation, often retreating it to the comfort zone of crassly palpable romanticism. Witness the sinking-ship literalism of Willy Stöwer '. S "Untergang der Titanic" (1912, right), the factually challenged melodrama of the two Titanic.
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ArchiTalk: February 2013
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Saturday, February 23, 2013. William Thornton, first architect of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., envisioned it as "a structure of noble proportions" that "the representatives of a very numerous people would one day require," according to Smithsonian magazine. The reason is obvious: this is not. Photo by Mark Fosh, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. And no wonder — Walter looked to imperial. Wren, in turn, was inspired by the coronary creation...
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ArchiTalk: March 2013
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Sunday, March 3, 2013. Revisiting Boston Garden (or the memories thereof). Photo by John Lord, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Talking about a building that 's. No longer standing has it s challenges — both for me, as a Super Duck Tours first mate, in terms of inculcating images of the history it made and the space it created in my passengers' minds, and for them, in terms of imagining such high- energy happenings when the real. But now that I ha...
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ArchiTalk: Attic baths: cramped, or creative?
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Friday, June 13, 2014. Attic baths: cramped, or creative? Having once roomed under a roof and made do with facilities not much roomier than the tent I holed up in at Boy Scout camp, I can relate to those loath to confine their bath to attic-level. The sky's the limit. Courtesy of idesignarch.com. Courtesy of bobedre.dk. Courtesy of homedesigncollections.blogspot.com. Courtesy of Swatt Miers Architects, swattmiers.com. Courtesy of saifou.com.
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ArchiTalk: June 2012
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Tuesday, June 12, 2012. Before Transamerica: Coit's command of California. Photo by John Curley, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. S recent news of plans to restore San Francisco's Coit Tower. Made me ponder the value a unique landmark tower, monument or skyscraper has traditionally brought to a city, in terms of iconic familiarity, historical reference, cultural identity, or picture-postcard appeal. Photo by Chad1616, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.
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ArchiTalk: Dracula's Denizen
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Monday, July 7, 2014. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. My childhood romps through Central Park in New York City. Often took me up a steep incline to the summit of Vista Rock, where craggy, creepy, crumbly old Belvedere Castle ominously hulked over me, convincing me beyond any reasonable doubt that Count Dracula dwelt therein. The towering citadel was actually used as the castle of "The Count" on Sesame Street. Photo by Jesse Richards. Reproduction...
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ArchiTalk: July 2013
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Thursday, July 4, 2013. Power and pallor in presidential libraries and museums — Part III. Unlike the Hooverville humbug of his predecessor's, Franklin D. Roosevelt enriched his own Presidential Library and Museum. In Hyde Park, N.Y., with a humble country charm. Preliminary sketch by Franklin D. Roosevelt of his own presidential library and museum. President Roosevelt dedicates his museum on June 30, 1941. His Fireside Chats, which he often bro...
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ArchiTalk: Portland's 'living room'
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Wednesday, June 18, 2014. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Photo by Steve Morgan. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Photo courtesy of www.pps.org. This frames the “drawbridge” entry into the. Occupy Portland with the Pink Martini Orchestra, October 26, 2011. Photo by Ray Terrill, courtesy of Flickr.com. Attracting some 26,000 Oregonians daily, Pioneer Courthouse Square hosts events as diverse as its design elements: spring’s Festival of Flowers...
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ArchiTalk: November 2013
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A personal commentary on architecture in Boston and beyond. Friday, November 22, 2013. How John F. Kennedy made history out of hodgepodge. Photo by mattxb, courtesy of Photoree.com. Warren Commission Exhibit #876, 1964. What makes a building, monument, site or district "historic"? Starchitect" stamp and status? Use, occupancy or visitation by a celebrity, dignitary or luminary? Relevance to the founding, growth or expansion of its city, state or nation? The US. Department of the Interior designated t...
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