Old Stable/New House

This is an incredible modern house inserted into an old stable. There is actually a stream running through the house.

 

National Cathedral and more

A set of photographs I took today when I went to the Flower Mart at the National Cathedral.  I have to admit that this Flower Mart does not have quite the same character as the Baltimore Flower Mart, and I didn't see a single peppermint stick.  But I did get some good pictures. 

This set, that displays both the grandeur architecture and the grandeur nature, includes the photographs I took at the Cathedral and on my walk home.

Click on the image below to see the photographs, and then click on the "show info" link that appears at the top of the slideshow to see the photo descriptions.



National Cathedral/Rock Creek Park - 5/4/13

Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park

Below are several sets of photographs I took today on the Chicago Architecture Foundation's tour of Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings in Oak Park, IL.



Frank Lloyd Wright Residence & Studio

Moore-Dugal Residence

Hills-DeCaro House

Arthur Heurtley House

Laura Gale House

Peter A. Beachy House

Frank Thomas House

Unity Temple

Santa Fe Photographs

Finally, the photographs I took last week in Santa Fe have been posted. There are five sets. Below is one of the photographs, followed by links to all five sets. I have added what information I have to the photographs, and you can see that if you click "Show Info" at the top when the slide show opens.



Architecture - Santa Fe

Loretto Chapel/Miraculous Staircase

San Miguel Church

Cathedral Basilica of St. Francis of Assisi

Santa Fe Sculpture

Albuquerque Pictures

Here are three set of photos from Albuquerque.

Old Town Albuquerque	San Felipe de Neri Church
Sculpture @ The Albuquerque Museum

LA Pictures

Below are links to the sets of photographs I took in Los Angeles on Monday.

Los Angeles	Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels
Los Angeles Music Center	Union Station

Talking Head Talks

David Byrne, formerly of The Talking Heads, discusses how our architecture influences the kind of music we listen two. Something I never thought of before.

Old Post Office Views

Given Donald Trump's impending transformation of the Old Post Office building into a Hotel, I decided yesterday to go over there and take some photographs from the building's tower. Below is a link to a photo set with views from the tower, as well as some interior shots. Click on the Show Info link at the top of the photo set that opens to see information about the photos.

Old Post Office Building - May 2012

Architecture or Sculpture

A video from The Guardian about the ArcelorMittal Orbit, recently constructed in London to mark the 2012 Olympics. The 377 ft tall tower was designed by Anish Kapoor and Cecil Balmond. Kapoor is best know in the United States for the Bean in Chicago's Millennium Park. 

Library of Congress

President's Day is one of the few occasions when photography is allowed in the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress. So I went over to take advantage of the opportunity. Here is a set of photographs from today. All of these photographs are of the Thomas Jefferson Building, competed in 1897. There is one photograph of the Capital Building, which is taken out a window in the Jefferson building.


Library of Congress - 2/20/2012

Another Wright House

An article, with photographs, of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Rockford, IL that is now on the market.


Rockford’s Only Frank Lloyd Wright House Up for Auction

Bootleg House

A short article and a gallery of photographs of Frank Lloyd Wright's Bootleg House.

Frank Lloyd Wright 'Bootleg' House

The Crystal Cathedral

This week the Crystal Cathedral was sold in bankruptcy to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange. The main sanctuary—designed by Philip Johnson—consists of over 10.000 panes of glass, and contains one of the worlds largest pipe organs. It is designed to withstand to an 8.0 magnitude earthquake.

Here is a video that focuses on the organ, but you can also see a good bit of the architecture it.

Nashville Concert Hall Transformed

I knew that some concert halls used to put a floor over the seats in order to hold dances, but I never heard of moving the seats under the floor like they do in this video of the Nashville Concert Hall.

Floor Flip from Schermerhorn Symphony Center on Vimeo.

A Room With a View

I got a new office at work last Friday. I now have a window that faces North across N Street. This is what I see when I look up from my computer now—the National Cathedral, undergoing earthquake damage repairs.

My apartment is somewhere behind the trees below and maybe a little to the left of the Cathedral.

Gang & Abumrad

My last post had a picture of Jeanne Gang's Aqua building in Chicago, in recognition of her MacArthur Genius Award. The MacArthur Foundation has videos of this year's winners, so here are the videos for Gang and Jad Abumrad, two of my three favorite 2011 genius winners.

On Saturday night I am going to see the third one live, and in person, so maybe I will do another post after that.

Jeanne Gang - Genius

I did a post last year when the Aqua Building, in Chicago, was named Skyscraper of the Year. Well now the architect of the building, Jeanne Gang, has been named one of this year's MacArthur Genius Winners. You can listen to her on NPR earlier today Here

Here is a photograph I took of the Aqua a year or two ago.

United States Institute of Peace Building

Some photographs I took last week of the United States Institute of Peace Building, 2301 Constitution Avenue NW, D.C. A LEED-certified building, designed by Moshe Safdie Architects, it opened in March 2011.


United States Institute of Peace Building

Falling Water

From Slate, Witold Rybczynski's photo essay on Falling Water.

Falling for Fallingwater

Rybczynski on Memorials

From Slate, Witold Rybczynski's musings on the proposed Eisenhower Memorial, and memorials in general.

A Memorial for Ike