Topic
Architecture
97 published works
PropertyProf Blog
A New Gothic Tower for New York
Slate takes a look at the plans:New York City’s West 57th Street is becoming a booming forest of tall, skinny skyscrapers that soar above Central Park with a nearly indistinguishable…
The Right Coast
Tokyo s Skinniest Houses – WSJ
Even after the skeleton went up, we were still worried if it would really work, says Mr. Sato, 38, an engineer for a medical-equipment company. via www.wsj.comIt's chic to live…
PropertyProf Blog
Counting Cornerstones
A quixotic quest worthy of a real-estateFor the past six years, William D. McCracken, [a] 39-year-old real-estate lawyer, has been combing both sides of every street in Manhattan in a…
PropertyProf Blog
Duplitecture at Chinese Colleges
From the Atlantic:[American colleges] cloned British universities’ libraries, cathedrals, quads, sculptures and even dress codes in the hopes of recreating the feel (and prestige) of Oxford and Cambridge. These days,…
The Right Coast
Inside the new 1 World Trade Center – Video – Business News
CNNMoney gets a preview of what the new 1 World Trade Center building will look like when it opens at the end of 2014. via money.cnn.com
The Right Coast
Nameless Beauty: Conservatism s Architecture Problem | Public Discourse
I recently returned to the Chicago I knew as an undergraduate to find an unsightly railway stockyard transformed into one of America s finest public spaces, Millennium Park. Its chief…
PropertyProf Blog
The Role of Architecture in the Films of Steve McQueen
From the LA Times:"12 Years a Slave," at once McQueen's most ambitious and most conventional movie, is even more suggestive in its use of architecture. Fassbender is back as a…
The Right Coast
China s bacon apartment will turn you off of bacon, maybe forever | Fox News
Photos of an apartment façade, draped entirely with pork belly strips, have gone viral on social media and are now circulating on the China s biggest news sites, such as…
China Law Blog
New Museums in China: A Stunning Book
By Dan Harris
Whenever I am asked what I would have been had I not become a lawyer, I always respond by saying architect. I love buildings and I still am in awe…
PropertyProf Blog
The Slander Against Brutalist Buildings
By propertyprof
Bryan Lowder takes a look at the history behind Brutalist architecture on college campuses:Chances are good that if you went to college in the United States after, say, 1975, your…