Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label architecture. Show all posts
Monday, March 23, 2015

Mont et mer

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When I went to France in 1999 with my friend Cris, we went out of our way to see the famed Mont Saint-Michel , driving up the causeway fro...
Friday, February 27, 2015

Underground railroad

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Beneath the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York is a secret train platform that was built in the 1930s to allow VIPs a private entrance. Mos...
Monday, February 16, 2015

Remote rumors

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This puffin-hunting lodge, with no electricity or indoor plumbing, was built in 1953 and is now trumpeted as the most isolated house in th...
Saturday, December 13, 2014

Taj tarnished

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The most beautiful tomb in the world, India's Taj Mahal, requires routine cleaning to maintain its visual brilliance. A collaboration...
Monday, December 8, 2014

Gargoyles gone

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The image above shows one of four remaining gargoyles on the structure formerly known as the Chestnut Street Congregational Church in Worc...
Monday, November 17, 2014

Ratish renewal

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Conservation architect Ratish Nanda , a native of New Delhi, is heading a massive project by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture to restore a...
Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Towers timbers

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Nope, not a fossil or a microscopic organism . This is the scan of an 18th c. ship discovered by construction workers in 2010 during rebui...
Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Vulgar vulva

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The other day my friend Cathy, who plays Irish music with her husband and has traveled extensively in Ireland, told me about sheela na gig...
Wednesday, May 21, 2014

Bradbury abode

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American science fiction writer Ray Bradbury died in 2012 and now the home he lived in for more than 50 years is on the market. The 4-bed...
Friday, April 18, 2014

Poveglia

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If you have money to spare and are in the market for your own private island , you may wish to consider Poveglia . The 17-acre island in I...
Friday, March 21, 2014

Sanctified by the sun

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The ancient Nabatean city of Petra was carved out of the cliffs of what is now Jordan. The enigmatic inhabitants were wealthy spice tra...
Sunday, August 4, 2013

Baffling baboon behavior

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B iologists at Emmen Zoo in the Netherlands are puzzled by the behavior of their 112 hamadryas baboons, although they have observed it b...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Playful penthouse

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American architect David Hotson and interior designer Ghislaine Viñas took on the project of a lifetime in 2007 when they designed a liv...
Thursday, May 17, 2012

Dick Clark's rockin' cave

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    "America's oldest teenager" Dick Clark (1929-2012) had a really cool little hideaway on 22 acres adjacent to Calif...
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Wright relocated

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The house at 1318 Isabella Street, Wilmette, Illinois , designed in the Prairie School-style by Frank Lloyd Wright associate John Van Berg...
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Monday, March 26, 2012

Perched, preserved, purchased

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A mountaintop near Santa Barbara, California, boasts views reminiscent of Roman ruins , but this is no mere folly .* In 1916, Union Carbide ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Designer doghouse

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In 1950, college professor Robert Berger contracted with Frank Lloyd Wright to design a house in San Anselmo, California, for his family. ...
Wednesday, March 7, 2012

More than a mark on the floor

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Good : As a young man, Douglas Bruce Kirkton studied chemistry and biology at UNC . Following graduate training in Air Pollution and Industr...
Thursday, February 23, 2012

Lease a lighthouse

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Sardinia, Italy, is putting a portfolio of state-owned property on the market, including decommissioned army barracks, empty castles, and fo...
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Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Chilly churches

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A Bavarian ice church ( 1st image, more photos here ) has been built by residents and blessed by a Catholic priest. The temporary ice church...