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Friday’s Architecture Moment: How IKEA Works
By propertyprof
This weekend, I made a pilgrimage from my home in Lexington to the IKEA in Cincinnati. Five hours, five-hundred dollars, and five unintended purchases later, I was back home. I…
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More ALPS, plus “Designing Tomorrow”
A couple of us have mentioned with eager anticipation the ALPS (Association for Law, Property, & Society) conference coming up this weekend. In only its second year, ALPS has quickly become…
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Interesting New Book…
The WSJ recently ran a story on this new book that analyzes the importance of building communities as opposed to just a collection of disparate buildings. Le Corbusier would have hated…
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Arcosanti – City on a Hill
We went to Oak Creek Canyon, north of Sedona, Arizona over the holiday. It was beautiful. On the drive back to Phoenix, I insisted (over my wife's rolling eyes) that…
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A Corner in Brooklyn, Then and Now
By propertyprof
Here is a fascinating little gem for those interested in preservation and architecture -- two photos of the same corner in Brooklyn, one from 1937 and one today. The buildings…
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National Preservation Conference in Austin . . . and Buffalo
We mentioned that last week the National Trust for Historic Preservation had its annual meeting in the Weird City, Austin TX. There are reports from the conference available on the…
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CityCenter – New Urbanism in Vegas?
We're having a little run of Las Vegas related posts this week, so I thought I'd post an excerpt from the recent New Yorker article on CityCenter:The complex is called…
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Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s
The National Building Museum has announced a new exhibition: Designing Tomorrow: America’s World’s Fairs of the 1930s, from Oct. 2 (Saturday!) thru July 10, 2011. It sounds absolutely fascinating:Between 1933 and…
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The Expanding Nature of Preservation
One of the interesting facts about historic resource preservation is that its boundaries are always growing. But some communities have not embraced fully this facet of preservation, even as Modernist architecture matures and qualifies…
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Merkel in NYT on When Less Was More in Housing
In the New York Times Opinionator Blog, architectural historian Jayne Merkel has published When Less Was More. She notes the overlooked fact that for most of the "golden age" of…