Tag: architectural history
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Whistler and Peacock Blue
Saturated Space, September 2015 In the summer and autumn of 1876, visitors to the London home of shipping magnate Frederick Richards Leyland, at 49 Prince’s Gate in Kensington, stopped short when they came to the dining room. There they were met by the sight of a dandyish man, with a shock of white hair, painting on…
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Don’t Ruin Waffle House
The Underappreciated Architecture of Waffle House CityLab, May 26, 2015 “Why would you eat your grits anyplace else?” That’s the title of a song on the Waffle House jukebox, and it’s what I think to myself every time I dig into breakfast at the greasy-spoon chain, a personal favorite, which has some 1,500 locations from Delaware…
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Filthy Lucre
Bird of Prey: A Macabre Twist on James McNeill Whistler’s Peacock Room Architectural Record, May 18, 2015 Painted by James McNeill Whistler in the 1870s, the Peacock Room, on display in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., is one of the most celebrated interiors in history. Decorations in teal and gold swirl over…
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Broadgate Exchange House
AIA Twenty-Five Year Award: Broadgate Exchange House Architect, May 2015 The Big Bang, at least the British version of it, took place on Oct. 27, 1986, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated the London stock market. Very swiftly after that, the City of London morphed from an insular old-boys club into a modern, global financial center.…
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Pablo Bronstein
The Artful Façades of Pablo Bronstein For artist Pablo Bronstein, the avant-garde has become so institutionalized that history seems radical. Architect, June 2014 Several years ago, the artist Pablo Bronstein published a new edition of Horace Walpole’s novel The Castle of Otranto, with a cover he had drawn by hand. Walpole, an 18th-century English aristocrat,…
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