Vision Zero in New England
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Notes on New York Old & New
WE FREQUENTLY READ that New York is incomparably better today than 40 years ago. Yes and no. Crime is down, but buildings are up—to the degree that too much of a good thing is bad. Fifty-seventh Street will soon have … Continue reading
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An Oldie But Goodie—sung to the tune of “I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General”
COLUMBIA ARCHITECTURE PROFESSOR and architectural historian Ken Frampton was once asked about “the cult of New Urbanism.” It’s “ersatz kitsch colonialism for the modern middle class”, he said. Faced with a statement like that, what can one do except write … Continue reading
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You Thought Architects Designed Perfect Chairs? (Good, Better, Best)
THIS EXCERPT from an old post at Veritas & Venustas comments on some of the same issues that Witold Rybczinski just wrote about in a post and a Tweet: Good, Better, Best (originally published February 2004) .. The concept is a … Continue reading
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Vision Zero in New York City
On March 14, 2014, John Massengale and Victor Dover spoke at the Regional Plan Association to a roundtable group interested in the topic of Vision Zero in New York City.
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The Shard Is The New Freeway
The Shard, Dubai-on-Thames, Great Britain. Renzo Piano, 2003-2011. The tallest building in the EU. IN THE 20TH CENTURY, experts told cities across the country they needed in-city highways to successfully compete with modern metropolises. In the 21st century, “iconic towers” … Continue reading
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“Money is the McMansion that falls apart after 10 years. Power is the old stone building that stands for centuries.”
Street Design in the Berkshire Record
The Berkshire Record only puts their front page online, so here is a copy of their recent article about the two streets in Great Barrington, Massachusetts that are discussed in Street Design. Click on either of the images below to … Continue reading
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Happy City
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Two types of architecture: good architecture, and the other kind
THE ARCHITECTURE CRITIC for New York magazine wrote about the work of Robert A.M. Stern in an article entitled Unfashionably Fashionable. I commented: “There are two kinds of music,” Duke … Continue reading
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Glass House Conversation: Traditional versus Modern
A YEAR OR SO AGO, I was invited to take part in a discussion on Traditional and Modern architecture at theglasshouse.org that was framed like this: Traditional versus modern architecture; Proponents of traditional architecture cite a preference for historical styles. Modernist … Continue reading
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WSJ: “An American Renaissance Gem”
“An American Renaissance Gem, How an industrialist and his unlikely team built a Miami marvel” The Wall Street Journal, December 9, 2006; Page P13 Book review by John Massengale Vizcaya, An American Villa and Its Makers By Witold Rybczynski and … Continue reading
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Urban Architecture & An Architecture of Place
CitiField has no city, and the Metropolitans have no metropolis. OVER AT DESIGN OBSERVER, the great Michael Bierut wrote a good piece on baseball parks that I thought was a little too quick to equate traditional design with “nostalgia” while … Continue reading
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Second Annual Slouching Towards Alphaville Award
An old post from Veritas & Venustas: It’s cold. It’s winter. It’s minus 20 degrees, an arctic wind is blowing in from the Russian steppes, and you’re walking on the biggest street in Moscow. Above you in the swirling snow … Continue reading
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WSJ: “Building for Beauty”
“Building for Beauty” The Wall Street Journal November 18, 2006; Page P11 By John Massengale The Architecture of Happiness By Alain de Botton Pantheon, 280 pages, $25 CLOSE to halfway through The Architecture of Happiness, populist philosophe Alain de Botton … Continue reading
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V&V: Yankees To Ask New York For $300 Million For Stadium Work
When the richest team in baseball asks New York City and New York State for $300 million to stay in a place they would never leave (they are the Bronx Bombers, after all, about to set an all-time major league … Continue reading
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V&V: Making A Neighborhood Around Yankee Stadium — Designs By University of Miami Architecture Students
These are the plans referred to in the post above. They were designed by architecture students at the University of Miami in 1998. Click on the plans for larger images. From that post, Yankees To Ask New York For $300 … Continue reading
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