LOCATION: 255 Main St, Goshen, NY 10924 ARCHITECT: Paul Rudolph DATES: 1963-1967 NOTES: Building has been vacant since 2010 following extensive flooding from Hurricane Sandy. Ongoing demolition talks do not bode well for the building. Site Visit(s): Fri Dec 26, 2014 ______________________________ RELEVANT LINKS Paul […]
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COLLECTING CONCRETE
“It is truly bizarre. For a start it is almost uniformly grey.” Guardian reporter Sean Thomas’s description of Le Corbusier’s Couvent de la Tourette is a notably unsympathetic one*, but not an entirely uncommon one. Concrete is quite often dismissed as simply dull, bland, and grey. And […]
KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS MUSEUM | New Haven
LOCATION: 1 State St, New Haven, CT USA ARCHITECT: Douglas Orr, deCossy, Winder & Associates // Roche Dinkerloo & Associates DATES: 1965 // 1982 NOTES: Former New Haven Community Services building, was vacated in 1980s after which it was purchased by the Knights of Columbus. […]
LONDON ZOO | London
Looking through one of my primary sources, Modern British Architecture since 1945 (published 1983), coupled with a somewhat disheartening trip to the London Zoo, I can’t help but remark at the slowness of architecture or at least it seems many of these buildings are just struggling to […]