I’ll confess I’ve never appreciated the beauty of this Savannah church until I was across the street from it a few days ago.
Do you recognize it? Open the post for another pic and the answer.
Tag: Architecture
Allison Arieff in the NYT: Reading the City
Really great post by Allison Arieff, a design and architecture writer at the NYT: Reading the City – NYTimes.com
A quirky photo tour of Charleston
We didn’t go to the point of the island at all, but we did explore some interesting streets that I’d never seen in addition to some very familiar ones.
SCAD Museum of Art draws national praise
Architect Magazine and the Congress for the New Urbanism with praise for the elegant and beautiful expansion of the Savannah College of Art & Design’s Museum of Art.
Today’s Google doodle: Mies van der Rohe
Just a quick note about the nice Google doodle today, an homage to architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. From today’s The Times of India: Google’s doodle today pays tribute to legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on…
NYT: We should expect more from writing about architecture
As with any field, architecture has developed its own complex jargon. Professional architects necessarily use plenty of complex words and phrases that are not in the active vocabulary of the public at large, and the work of academics who study…
OK, it might look a little like 9/11, but The Cloud is pretty cool
The Cloud has been designed by MVRDV; it consists of two luxury residential towers in Seoul, South Korea with a spectacular layer of interconnections. And the proposed buildings have generated considerable controversy over the last day because images of the…
The changing shape of Middle America: New Moshe Safdie-designed buildings in Kansas City, Bentonville
I had quite a bit to say back in February 2006 about the Telfair Museums’ Jepson Center, including this riff on the architecture: It may be a long time before we can clearly position Safdie’s building in the pantheon of…
Taking a closer look at Clayton Homes’ zero energy i-house
I wrote about Green Bridge Farm, a sustainable community in Effingham County, in a post a few weeks ago. Yesterday I went out again to Green Bridge Farm for the open house for Clayton Homes’ i-house, a zero energy home…