Architecture Tourist

12/19/2024

So much here, for example:
-The Ranch House in Georgia
-Schools Building Types for Schools in Georgia

A number of statewide historic context studies are available for Georgia’s historic resources.

12/13/2024

The Pink Palace designed by Philip Shutze. What a wall. They were painting the windows inside. I took this picture in 2017

12/05/2024

"We find that the average walking speed has increased by 15%, while the time spent lingering in these spaces has halved across all locations. Although the percentage of pedestrians walking alone remained relatively stable (from 67% to 68%), the frequency of group encounters declined, indicating fewer interactions in public spaces. This shift suggests that urban residents increasingly view streets as thoroughfares rather than as social spaces, which has important implications for the role of public spaces in fostering social engagement."

This paper analyzes changes in pedestrian behavior over a 30-year period in four urban public spaces in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia.

12/04/2024

For sale soon from The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation

The First National Bank Building in Louisville, Georgia, constructed circa 1919, is a historic cast stone and masonry structure spanning approximately 3,800 square feet on a 0.09-acre lot. Designed by […]

12/03/2024

Calatrava is speaking.

11/29/2024

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"The homes have plenty of awkward angles, windows that lack privacy and entrances that are too close to the curb. But owners love them. "

Chicago buyers are drawn to old corner shops, bars and liquor stores for their openness, floor to ceiling windows and unique layouts.

09/15/2024

It's 4,500 words, only one picture, literature I think written in 2006 considering McKim, Mead & White after 100 years. It includes the murder.

"For when construction began on Penn Station in 1905, Sullivan had long since developed the modern steel-framed skyscraper (1891) and Frank Lloyd Wright had already created the Prairie Style house (1901). It is the blithe indifference to these developments on the part of McKim, Mead & White that constitutes the modernist indictment against them."

"The (Penn) station was razed down to track level, keeping intact only the circulation system (something which not even an age of functionalism could improve upon)."

On the influences of the architectural triumvirate McKim, Mead & White.

08/16/2024

I blogged Lizzie Chapel in 2012. Glad I did. I can't remember the event that got me inside. It's apartments/condos now but the exterior is still an Inman Park Landmark. Do see the before/after video in the comments.

I noticed the door was open. I knocked, poked my head inside, and they let me have a lo0k. "Known affectionately and inexplicably to Inman...

08/08/2024

Bravo The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation ty Norcross Woman’s Club

07/06/2024

TY Common Edge Collaborative Duo Dickinson Witold Rybczynski et al
"Duke Ellington once said of another art form: “There are simply two kinds of music, good music and the other kind.”"

In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before.

05/05/2024

The Neel Reid Prize Lecture is May 22, 2024, in Rhodes Hall at The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation. I may regret telling you as the room is too small for everyone who should be there.

The prize allows the winner to tour, draw, and lecture some of the most beautiful places in the world that Neel Reid might have visited himself. Audiences are known to gasp in awe at the lectures. I certainly have.

This picture is from 2012 lecture. There is William R. Mitchell Jr. (R.I.P.) who wrote "the book" with 4 J. Neel Reid Prize winners:

Jonathan LaCrosse 2005
Clay Rokicki 2010
Paul Knight 2007
Blake Segars Segars 2011

Just so you know: The is also at Neel Reid Scholarship established by the Peachtree Garden Club in 1947 for Landscape Architecture at the University of Georgia. We have a bunch of those winners in Atlanta, Carley Rickles among them.

TY Wright Mitchell, see you there Sydney Rhame Janney.