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Professor in Practice of Urban Design Alex Krieger points out that “it would be pretty silly to make large, state-of-the-art science buildings look like neo-Georgian houses. Being inspired by older architecture and setting is important. Attempting to reproduce an ‘old look,’ especially for quite new functions, usually produces rather banal results...
...Located 180 km west of London, Bath became a fashionable spa town in the 18th century, remaining so until its springs were eclipsed by the fad for sea bathing in the 1800s. Today, the city's fame principally rests on its exquisite Georgian architecture, which has been stylishly incorporated into the new spa alongside modern additions by architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Highlights include an open-air rooftop pool overlooking the town center and glass steam rooms. Taking in these elegant surroundings, it's hard to believe that the project was plagued by problems since construction began in 2000 (a long...
...Located 180 km west of London, Bath became a fashionable spa town in the 18th century, remaining so until its springs were eclipsed by the fad for sea bathing in the 1800s. Today, the city's fame principally rests on its exquisite Georgian architecture, which has been stylishly incorporated into the new spa alongside modern additions by architect Sir Nicholas Grimshaw. Highlights include an open-air rooftop pool overlooking the town center and glass steam rooms. Taking in these elegant surroundings, it's hard to believe that the project was plagued by problems since construction began in 2000 (a long...
...Journal-Constitution reported that the man who had once condemned China for its one-child policy and its persecution of Christians had created a "grass-roots" Christian group to lobby for freer trade with the superpower--an effort quietly financed by major U.S. corporations like Boeing that were the Georgian's true clients. The profits Reed collected from such dealings were not, by any indication, the wages of illegal behavior. But to some they were the wages of sin. "He got nailed for being a phony," says a fellow G.O.P. operative in Washington, with more than a little schadenfreude...
...criticized as ugly, dehumanized, at war with instead of building on Harvard’s architectural past. But the contemporaneity, style, and spirit of the new buildings also won them wide acceptance.” Despite the overcrowding, some alums expressed nostalgia for Harvard’s older, neo-Georgian style, with its ivy-covered bricks. “I would have rather been a freshman and upperclassman in the Houses with nice pseudo-Georgian atmospheres than in a campus that looks like a moonscape at the University of Texas,” Landau says. Invoking the architecture maxim that...