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Holiday Digest: Week of Nov. 21
Holiday Digest is a years-long partnership between the Laguna Beach Independent and Third Street Writers. Members original stories, poems and essays reflect the angst, wonder and sometimes even joy of the holiday season in Laguna Beach. By David Watkin How the hell did I wind up dressed as a Pilgrim? I turn right off Pearl Street and pass Mozambique with a smile. I know exactly how. It all started in Ralphs parking lot.
The Migration of the Palm: A Case-study of Architectural Ornament as a Vehicle of Meaning
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Quinlan Terry | Standpoint
It is not because he receives few commissions that Quinlan Terry should be included among the architects we call underrated — quite the reverse is the case. It is because his work, in common with that of traditional architects, receives little attention from the architectural press, which for the most part reports only Modernist work.
Norman Foster | Standpoint
We cannot escape the high-tech glass and metallic “global architecture” of Lord Foster of Thames Bank. He claimed that “the unique shape” of his Greater London Authority Building, the backwardsleaning testicular lump over which Boris Johnson now presides, and which disfigures the banks of the Thames, “was generated as a result of rigorous scientific analysis”.
David Watkin on The Age of Empire
The author of this fascinating book has adopted a thoroughly new approach to its subject, one which the reader might not expect from the title, because it might suggest that the architecture described will be that built in the far-flung foreign territories of the Empire, rather than in Britain itself.
The Empire's crown jewels
The author of this fascinating book has adopted a thoroughly new approach to its subject, one which the reader might not expect from the title, because it might suggest that the architecture described will be that built in the far-flung foreign territories of the Empire, rather than in Britain itself.
History of Italy Small Group Tour for Seniors
Small group tours Italy: heritage, culture, history of Italy Odyssey offers easy, convenient, and relaxed escorted small group tours across Western Europe and beyond. We explore Italy’s fairy-tale natural beauty, its ancient Roman, and Imperial heritage, its World Heritage Sites, and world famous cities, all with some truly spectacular scenery along the way.
A New Order for Office Buildings
While Le Corbusier’s view that the house is a machine for living in is now widely discredited as an error that produced an inhumane and brutal modern architecture, the notion that the office is a machine for working in seems superficially more reasonable. That’s what makes Quinlan Terry’s Richmond Riverside office development, completed in 1988, so important a turning point in the history of architecture.
A New Order for Office Buildings
While Le Corbusier’s view that the house is a machine for living in is now widely discredited as an error that produced an inhumane and brutal modern architecture, the notion that the office is a machine for working in seems superficially more reasonable. That’s what makes Quinlan Terry’s Richmond Riverside office development, completed in 1988, so important a turning point in the history of architecture.
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