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Cathedral Makers in Exhibit |
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Gabriella Boston |
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Rome wasn''t built in a day, and neither was the Washington National Cathedral, which celebrates its 100th birthday in September. "The formal construction, which started in 1907, ...
Issue Date: 9 / 2007
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New City Designs Possible for New Orleans |
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Deborah K. Dietsch |
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Hurricane Katrina''s devastation along the Gulf Coast may become a boon to traditionalist architects. Advocates of "new urbanism," a national movement to stop sprawl with ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2006
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Adolf Cluss: The Man Who 'Shaped' the Original Washington, D.C. |
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Deborah K. Dietsch |
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Shame on the Smithsonian for neglecting one of its oldest architectural gems, the Arts and Industries Building. For years, this fantastic museum, sculpted with turrets, octagonal ...
Issue Date: 12 / 2005
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The World Trade Center Memorial Competition |
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Susan Tenaglia |
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Winning out over fifty-two hundred entries, New York City
architect Michael Arad and Peter Walker''s bold design for the
World Trade Center memorial, Reflecting Absence, ...
Issue Date: 4 / 2004
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Hollywood Dream Palaces |
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Scarlet Cheng |
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At the turn of the century, as motion pictures made the transition from novelty entertainment to serious business, filmmakers moved west to California, where there was plenty of ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2003
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21391
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Historic Harpers Ferry: An Early Look at the American Dream |
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Peter F. Dessauer |
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Although best known today as the site of abolitionaist John
Brown''s raid in 1859, Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was once a
booming transit, commercial, and industrial center ...
Issue Date: 6 / 2001
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Virginia's 'Living Museum' at 75: The Meaning of Williamsburg |
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James P. Whittenburg and Catherine Dolinski |
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With five hundred period buildings, Colonial Williamsburg captures the town''s architectural landscape on the eve of the Revolutionary War. But after seventy-five years, has the ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2001
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Colonial Cultural Calendar |
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Colonial Williamsburg is celebrating its unique role in preserving the nation''s past for future generations with a series of special cultural programs and art exhibits, ...
Issue Date: 5 / 2001
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Nashville's Tuck-Hinton Architects: A Tennessee Original |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Tuck-Hinton Architects is a solid Nashville firm that is doing much to help define the spirit and sense of place that is Tennessee. Founded in 1984 by Kem Hinton and Seab Tuck, ...
Issue Date: 2 / 2000
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21044
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Historic St. Augustine: A Touch of Old Spain |
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Alicia Waite |
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With a building tradition twice as old as America itself, St.
Augustine''s vital, colorful architecture reveals a time when
Spain ruled La Florida with majesty and ...
Issue Date: 1 / 2000
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17930
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Savannah's Historic District: 'Jewel of the South' |
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Stephen Henkin |
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General Sherman spared it from the torch, Clint Eastwood
filmed in it, and tourists by the millions flock there. People
just love Savannah''s classic Old South ...
Issue Date: 4 / 1999
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17522
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Delray Resort Revived with Classic Look |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Cities struggling with urban blight can learn much from tiny
Delray Beach, which opted to restore its intriguing "Old
Florida" look rather than cave in to the wrecker''s ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1998
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17475
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Universal Appeal: Orlando Theme Park Plays Nostalgia Card |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Move over, Mickey! Universal Studios Florida, just 20 minutes
from Disney World, is doubling its size with innovative
attractions catering as much to boomers as generation ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1998
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Earl Swensson Revitalizes Nashville: Tuning Up Music City |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Earl Swensson sounds more like a man on a mission than an architect on assignment. The founder of Earl Swensson Associates (ESa) of Nashville, Tennessee, speaks decisively about ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1998
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Mary Colter: Designs on the Canyon |
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Karen J. Donnelly |
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Each year more than five million visitors are awestruck by the splendor of the Grand Canyon. Although most spend time in at least one of the buildings designed by Mary Elizabeth ...
Issue Date: 3 / 1996
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Trouble With Genius |
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Thomas D. Sullivan |
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Frank Lloyd Wright was undoubtedly a genius, a genius with a romantic vision of architecture. But this inimitable ability and the idiosyncracy of his architectural ideal limit ...
Issue Date: 2 / 1995
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America's New Temples of Justice |
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Thomas D. Sullivan |
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There is a building boom in courthouses in America, and the way they are built will tell you a great deal about what is happening to the justice system--and the country. Many of ...
Issue Date: 9 / 1994
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Moore Ruble Yudell: A Firm on the Go |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Buzz Yudell is busy, very busy. When he''s not overseeing major projects for the Santa Monica, California-based firm Moore Ruble Yudell, one of the most sought-after in the ...
Issue Date: 7 / 1994
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Public Buildings: The New Wave in Glass |
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Karen S. Chambers |
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Glass has played a role in architecture since Roman times, when small panes of blown glass were used to glaze windows of the great baths and occasionally houses. As glass ...
Issue Date: 5 / 1994
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Pietro Belluschi: Shaping the Religious Experience |
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Stephen Henkin |
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Although architect Pietro Belluschi is best known for his collaboration in landmarks such as the Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco and the Pan Am Building and the ...
Issue Date: 11 / 1993
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