10 of the Best Houses from the Last 25 Years
Architakes launches its Lists category with 10 great houses. If there’s a common thread, it’s the way good design makes more from less. In chronological order: Magney House, Bingie Point, NSW, Australia, 1982-84 Glenn Murcutt, Architect Murcutt’s houses reflect the life-simplifying advice of Thoreau. Typically only one room deep, their interiors are intimate with nature. A half-dozen Murcutt houses...Continue reading→
Stanford White’s Bronx Pantheon To Lose Pride of Place
Ground has been broken on a new Bronx Community College building by Robert A.M. Stern that will leave Stanford White’s Gould Memorial Library off-center on its historic quadrangle.
Is World’s New Largest Building the Spawn of Manhattan’s Muni?
Does this building look somehow familiar? The pointed center tower surrounded by minions and topped with a gold sculpture, the embracing wings, the arched entrance in the foreground and the side arcades; is there not a family resemblance to Manhattan’s Municipal Building?
CUNY Demolishes Historic Queens Building
The City University of New York has demolished a 1914 garage on its LaGuardia Community College campus that was part of the historic Loose-Wiles Sunshine Biscuit plant in Long Island City. The building had been protected by its formal status as “eligible” for listing on the State and National Registers of Historic Places until the New York State...Continue reading→