Volumes & Issues

Tag: architecture

  • World’s Fair Site: Can You Get There From Here?

    (Thank you, Wikipedia, for this image of the Queen’s World’s Fair site from August, 1964!) We interrupt the longer blog post we’re frantically working on to bring you this urgent debate concerning one of New York City’s most interesting historic sites.  I know you Manhattanites have trouble crossing water, but waaaayy out in Flushing Meadows…

  • The Melancholy Beauty of the Past

    A few months ago, Dumbarton Oaks announced the new online exhibit of the Nicholas V. Artamonoff Collection, available via their website.   This will provide scholars access to documentary images from archaeological digs from 1935-1945.  This is not especially exciting.  Such types of projects are always being announced on email lists.  Many such are in…

  • PEEP THIS…

    Gone are the days of ornate architecture with its intricate masonry and delicate wood work.  For many an urban dweller it’s  a “Stack’em Shack” (translation apartment building) existence.  For the suburbanite you have your home with a plot of land. World of Interiors, March 2013 issue featured an eye-catching architectural delight. PEEP THIS…a decaying domicile…