August 2013

Indow window inserts press inside your window frames without a mounting bracket to give you all the comfort and efficiency of high-end replacement windows.

The Forum

The relation between architectural style and politics has always been complicated.

Book Reviews

Slate Roofs has long been the essential go-to guide for determining material quantities, roof layout, specification data and construction details.

Edward Durell Stone designed this 1964 museum in New York City to display the art collection of Huntington Hartford, the A&P supermarket heir. The building had Venetian motifs throughout, especially the fanciful support columns at the base. Architectural critics hated Stone’s playful departure from rigid Modernism and derisively nicknamed it “The Lollipop Building.”

Book Reviews

Largely unknown today, Edward Durell Stone had a fabulous architectural career. In the 1960s, he was arguably the most famous architect in America.

Public Buildings

On March 5, 2008, Seattle, WA, purchased King Street Station, a national, state and city landmark from Burlington Northern Railroad (now BNSF) for 10$.

The Palladium at the Center for the Performing Arts, designed by Washington, D.C.-based David M. Schwarz Architects, defines the mixed-use City Center development of Carmel, IN. The south façade, the main entrance, faces the village green. All photos: Steve Hall, Hedrich Blessing Photographers

Theaters

The construction of the Palladium in Carmel, IN that was to play muse to the town with classical concerts, theatrical productions and dance performances.