Architecture,art (high and low brow)
Month: August 2013
One of the very few buildings done by Philip Johnson that is handsome and functional. Usually his buildings are fussy with applied ornament. Of course, he did say he was an architectural whore. So give him credit for his honesty.
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When bank buildings anchored the streetscape and made a statement.
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(c) Bill Lebovich, all rights reserved.
The pre-eminent Roman Catholic Church architect in the early to mid 20th century in the US was this Boston-based firm. Best known for its large churches, the firm
also designed exquisite smaller churches such as Holy Rosary Church on 3rd St.,NW. The congregation is celebrating its 100th anniversary this December, but the structure was started ten years after the founding of the congregation.
Ipswich, Massachusetts
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Mies’s Lake Shore Drive flanking SOM’s John Hancock Tower.
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Chicago. Skidmore Owings Merrill,architects
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One of John Russell Pope’s several monumental buildings in the US Capital.
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