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Category Archives: SPECIAL
Fitzgerald’s use of American architectural styles in the Great Gatsby.
Though many critics of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby have commented on the crucial importance of the buildings in the novel, none has given full and specific attention to those buildings’ particular architectural styles.1 This is surprising, since, … Continue reading
Posted in McKim Mead & White, Offbeat
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Steel Spire tops out One World Trade Center
NEW YORK – One World Trade Center reached a new height in progress Tuesday after workers installed the first piece of the spire that will make it the tallest building in the country. The 70-ton spire is just one of … Continue reading
OUR MEN IN HAVANA
EVEN in Cuba they know it’s a waiting game, waiting for the Castros to exit the stage, and for Cuba to open up. When Americans finally do arrive in quantity, New Yorkers will notice something familiar about Havana, for a string of New York architects found it fertile ground a century ago. Continue reading
Merry Christmas from New York
There is no doubt in my mind that NYC is the most beautiful place in the world to spend Christmas. Continue reading
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15CPW- Weill Takes Step Toward ‘Downsizing’
Sanford I. Weill, the former chairman and chief executive of Citigroup Inc., has put one of the most celebrated postwar penthouses in Manhattan on the market for $88 million, saying that at a difficult period in the country’s history, it is “a pretty good time” for wealthy Americans “to be quiet.” Continue reading