Word: architecturale
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BUDDHA IN THE BACKYARD Enter the stone gates of the Bagan Hotel and you could be forgiven for thinking you've stumbled upon yet another reconstructed temple. The elaborate teak and brick reception hall is built in the ancient architectural style. Wedged between the major sites of old Pagan and...
Of all the neighborhoods that ring Harvard’s Cambridge campus, few have suffered from the University’s ugly and misguided building schemes more than Riverside. It has been forced to bear such architectural atrocities as Mather House and Peabody Terrace, which tower over the low-set...
JC: If it’s done for the wrong reasons, it can. The overall concern should be providing improved conditions to engage with works of art. If that is a lower priority to the signature style architectural building, that could be in conflict with the space, it is a...
It seems odd at first, all this low-slung elegance in the middle of a desert. In fact, it was almost inevitable, as Tony Merchell, an amateur architectural historian who has been deeply involved in the town's historic-preservation movement, told me. Wealthy Eastern and Midwestern business people followed...
All in all, Orbit In is pretty close to Modernist heaven. As you sip your complimentary Orbitini, listen to Mambo with Tjader on the poolside stereo and watch the sun slip behind the mountains, it's easy to forget that much of Palm Springs' architectural heritage is still at risk...