Architecture | Architecture
Mar.14.2013
The Palace of the Maharaja of X was going to be our home for the next few nights, while we explored the region.
“This should be fun,” we told each other, and the...
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Feb.06.2013
"My grandfather gave me a job!" Andrew Skurman laughs. "That's how I got so interested in architecture."
Skurman sits back, folds his arms before him and enters what is clearly an affectionate recollection. "He had a company in the Bronx making elevators and, when I was 14, they needed draftsmen...
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Jan.08.2013
I know the digital world is here - I'm all for that, and e-books for common reading. Still, I hope these beautiful repositories of knowledge remain in use forever. See the link below for more views.
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Dec.13.2012
The Cathedral of Notre Dame de Paris, one of my very favorite buildings, is celebrating a landmark birthday these days. It’s the 850th and there’s reason enough to celebrate that it has survived centuries of wars, abuse, neglect, and busloads of tourists. But to me, there’s a key...
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Jun.25.2012
“The Monument, the Church and the Piazza” by Arthur Cola
When you’re writing a book which has its climatic scenes set in Rome the challenge is choosing places from a veritable plethora of fantastic sites in the Eternal City to include in your story. Naturally such a choice of...
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May.20.2012
English houses are an infuriating combination of the cosy and the absurd.
There are few pleasures comparable to walking home down a street lined with traditional-looking English houses. Diminutive in height, sloped roofs as observation decks for modulating blackbirds and...
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Nov.09.2011
Eski Cami interior
Edirne, 8/11/2011 — Today as our bare feet padded on the thick carpet of Edirne's Old Mosque — the Eski Cami — and we looked up at its wide dome and laterally to the passionate calligraphy calling out from the walls, I thought again of the verses of the only Sufi...
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Sep.21.2011
Main Home Style Tour de Force
Tour de ForceWritten by vivianm@oregonhomemagazine.com (mailto:vivianm@oregonhomemagazine.com) ">Vivian McInerny Tuesday, September 13, 2011
At the first house, I was mortified. I felt like a spy or a walking lie. I was sure...
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Sep.21.2011
Bus stop shaped as Kaplicky´s "octopus" library unveiled in Brno
Brno - An original bus station shaped as a miniature of the late architect Jan Kaplicky's draft design of the National Library in Prague, dubbed "Octopus," was unveiled at a housing estate in Brno today
The champagne-...
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Sep.09.2011
I was once embarrassed about liking beautiful things. In the midst of my teenage existential angst, fretting over appearances struck me as horribly shallow. And I was canyon deep, dang it!
So that’s when I retreated to my Fortress of Solitude. It looked a lot like an alcove in the family basement...
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