NEWPORT, R. I. — It’s one of my favorite museums in New England, or anywhere for that matter, yet hardly anyone has heard of it.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PMLast Sunday, for the third year, I took my annual walk down the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, an event that has become a kind of rite of spring. Each year, with the optimism of the seaso…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMPROVIDENCE — When we think of landscapes, we usually think of gardens and rivers, of lakes, forests, and mountains. We don’t normally think of abandoned factories.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMIt’s a surprising thing to come across on the Harvard campus. Nine big piles, maybe 14 feet square and 8 feet high, that look like forts children might make. The walls are made of kid-…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMPROVIDENCE — It’s kind of an odd duck on the mostly traditional College Hill campus of Brown University.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMDana-Farber’s new building is the best piece of architecture I’ve seen in Boston’s medical area, a neighborhood that often feels dismal and crowded.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMWALTHAM — Brandeis University and its Waltham campus always bring to mind the wonderful word “discombobulated.’’ On a lovely rocky, rolling site, buildings of many si…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMHere’s a paradox. Boston’s city planners determine that new buildings on the ocean side of the Kennedy Greenway should be no taller than 200 feet. They arrive at that number afte…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AMTwo of the best buildings in Greater Boston have been honored with my two favorite architectural prizes. Both awards were officially announced last week.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMWhy would an institution create radically different kinds of architecture just a few years apart?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PMNEW YORK — Are architects egomaniacs whose deepest ambition is to build monuments to themselves and their rich clients?
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:47AMThe handsome new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts is a place for looking at art, not a place for looking at architecture.
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