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Piano to Build at Corbu’s Ronchamp Chapel

Posted in Architecture, Discussion, Historic Preservation, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , on June 19, 2008 | 1 Comment »

Construction plans for the site of Le Corbusier’s chapel of Notre Dame du Haut (1954) in Ronchamp (France) commissioned by the Association Oeuvre Notre Dame du Haut (the same organization that commissioned the chapel by Le Corbusier), has ignited a serious debate and disagreement between organizations seeking to preserve Le Corbusier’s legacy.

The New Plan. The [...]

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Pashkov House: Moscow’s Jewel Now Restored

Posted in Architecture, Historic Preservation, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , on May 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Paskov House one of architectural jewels of Russia was under restoration for 19 years, was closed down due to its dilapidated state. Pashkov House is named after its first owner Petr Yegorovich Pashkov, the lieutenant commander of the Life Guards of Semenovsky Regiment and the son of Peter the Great’s batman.
Designed by Vasily Bazhenov (1737-1799), [...]

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Neutra’s VDL Threatened With Closure

Posted in Architecture, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , on May 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Seventy-five years ago, in Los Angeles, with a no-interest loan from Dutch philanthropist Dr CH Van Der Leeuw, Viennese-American architect Richard Neutra, rightly called ’second only to Frank Lloyd Wright’, built a radical “glass house” with rooftop and balcony gardens on Silverlake Boulevard.

This is the place where Neutra had designed hundreds of projects over [...]

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Johnson is In- Gehry is Out; Jon Jerde is In- Gehry is Out

Posted in Architecture, Discussion, Historic Preservation, News Ink, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 22, 2008 | 3 Comments »

This week in news we find two of Frank Gehry’s projects declared obsolete- Winton Guest House in Minnesota, and Santa Monica Place mall in Santa Monica.
In early 2007, the University of California, Irvine, razed one of his buildings—a computer science center—to make way for a new engineering complex, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported at the [...]

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Painted towns of Shekhawati: Colors in sand

Posted in Architecture, Culture, Historic Preservation, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on February 12, 2008 | 7 Comments »

How big can you imagine an open air gallery to be? Well, here you are… 13, 785 sq. km [5130 sq. miles] of painted walls, havelis, palaces and forts in the vast expanse of the desert of Rajasthan in India. Town after town, street after street, home after home has been painted with frescoes depicting [...]

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A city without old buildings is like a man without memory

Posted in Historic Preservation, Peoples' Places, tagged , , , , , , , , , on January 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Among the admirable and enjoyable sights to be found along the sidewalks of big cities, the ingenious adaptations of old buildings for new uses is the most enduring one. A glance on the patina of the old walls of these buildings evokes nostalgia. For a moment, the stone whispers the stories of the days long [...]

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