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Want to explore a house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright? You'll have to go to Manchester, N. H.
2+ hour, 8+ min ago (994+ words) MANCHESTER, N. H. " On a quiet side road of a woody neighborhood, they are low lying, discreet enough that you could easily drive by without noticing the two homes designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the country's most celebrated architects. That's…...
At Yale: looking at faces of the 20th century, the body in decline, and a great architect's career
1+ week, 6+ day ago (417+ words) August Sander's People of the 20th Century" runs at the Yale University Art Gallery through June 28. It includes all 619 surviving images from the project. (Several thousand were destroyed during World War II and in a subsequent house fire.) Portfolios is what…...
From teardown to new dream home: build in N. H. , assemble in Mass. , pocket the savings
3+ week, 6+ day ago (896+ words) Tim Buntel and Cynthia Graber think a lot about being green " pollinator gardening, recycled home decor, and e-bikes are their jam. To take sustainability to the next level, they decided to demolish a Somerville fixer upper and start from scratch…...
There's no likening Gardner Museum's renewal to BSO's shake-up
4+ week, 1+ day ago (208+ words) Opinion | There's no likening Gardner Museum's renewal to BSO's shake-up'The Boston Globe There's no likening Gardner Museum's renewal to BSO's shake-up In "Gardner Museum's renewal offers lessons for BSO" (Opinion, April 6), Anne Hawley, former director of the Isabella Stewart Gardner…...
Basement redesign blends California and Cambridge styles
4+ mon, 1+ week ago (275+ words) 1 The curved sectional from Room & Board eases the circulation behind it and helps soften the fairly angular space. An assortment of hand-block-printed pillows from Etsy, in a range of earthy tones, add pattern and depth to neutral performance linen upholstery....
What to know about the Stata Center in Cambridge, Gehry's best-known local design - The Boston Globe
5+ mon, 1+ day ago (450+ words) Among the many iconic buildings designed by Frank Gehry, the celebrated architect who died Friday at 96, was the Ray and Maria Stata Center on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology campus. Here's a primer on the history of the Stata Center,…...
Frank Gehry, architect behind MIT's Stata Center and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, dies at 96 - The Boston Globe
5+ mon, 2+ day ago (1303+ words) Frank Gehry, the architect whose undulating, titanium-sheathed museum turned little-known Bilbao, Spain, into an international travel destination and ushered in an era of spectacular form-making, has died. He was 96. He died on Friday at his home in Santa Monica, California,…...
The Architectural Team's leadership transition is complete, as Schultz takes over for Binette - The Boston Globe
5+ mon, 5+ day ago (1034+ words) A long-planned transition at The Architectural Team in Chelsea finally comes to a conclusion this month with the retirement of longtime managing principal Mike Binette. "I'm the youngest," Schultz said. "I think they see there's an opportunity for [someone with]…...
Marcel Breuer's modernist Wellfleet summer cottage was brought back to life and opened to the public - The Boston Globe
5+ mon, 2+ week ago (552+ words) The CCMHT was founded in 2007 with the goal of restoring the Outer Cape's impressive modern homes. In the 1940s, artists, designers, academics, architects, and other avant-garde thinkers began flocking to Wellfleet, building or hiring architects to create cottages to spend the…...
Do we tear it down or restore it?" Redesigning a fire damaged Victorian in Cambridge. - The Boston Globe
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (709+ words) A few weeks before Edrick van Beuzekom's clients were scheduled to close on a Queen Anne Victorian in Cambridge, a devasting fire occurred in the home. Regardless, the prospective buyers, a young. .. "Do we tear it down or restore it?...