Tag: suburbia
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The Mall as American Dream
Does America Still Want the American Dream? Twelve years after work began on a $2 billion entertainment complex in New Jersey, is another giant mall still an appealing vision? The Atlantic, Oct. 9, 2015 Driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike, past the proverbial smoke stacks and then across a brief interruption of marshland, a…
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Reimagining Suburbia
What if the world’s greatest architects began looking beyond the city limits? The American Scholar, Autumn 2015 Renzo Piano may be the most urban, and urbane, of great architects working today. He made his name in Paris in the 1970s, when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Center, a machine of a museum bristling…
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Del Webb 2.0
The Subtle Shifts in Retirement Community Designs Del Webb, the country’s biggest builder of “active adult” housing, is changing its formula to appeal to Baby Boomers. CityLab, Sept. 8, 2015 On January 1, 1960, the Del E. Webb Corporation invited members of the public to see its new community, Sun City, Arizona. Sun City was…
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Silver Spring Library Review
Silver Spring’s Ho-Hum Library The Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2015 The new Silver Spring branch of the Montgomery County library opened to much fanfare. The building is big — five stories, three of which are for the library — and sits on one of the busiest corners downtown. Designed by the Lukmire Partnership, an Arlington…
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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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