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Was it simply an architectural snafu? Perhaps the engineers got the plans wrong, and Holy Cross had never gotten around to fixing things?
That "yes" would come from Los Angeles's Cultural Heritage Commission, which dedicates anywhere from 30 to 50 monuments a year, according to staffer Ken Bernstein. "The vast majority are saved for architectural significance," says Bernstein, "but the cultural heritage ordinance does allow for and encourage designation of sites that...
First opened in 1868, the brief of its architect, William Henry Barlow, had been to build the world's fastest and grandest railway station to reflect Britain's international pre-eminence. "St Pancras was symbolic of the history of rail travel in the U.K.," says Ruse. "It was a bygone...
A 1976 graduate of the Architectural Association School of Architecture, Mostafavi also studied at the University of Essex and the University of Cambridge during the 1970s and 1980s. He was a design critic at Cambridge as well as a visiting professor at the Frankfurt Academy of Arts.
Some members of the task force said they were worried that too much of the discussion had centered around the construction and architectural aspects of the buildings, and not the relationship the buildings will have with the community.