Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismTHOR: A Good Thing . . .- March 8, 2005 Our Room A few months ago, THOR (The Hotel on Rivington) was the building of the month on the web. My wife and I took a downtown vacation there while it was under construction, and the rooms were half price. I didn't have time to make a full post at...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/thor_a_good_thi.html Or The End Of LES As We Know It- March 8, 2005 Complaining about gentrification is as easy as shooting Yuppies at a Starbucks. But as I wrote here, SURE, nobody likes Yuppies, but they're the reason that here in the US we have better food, better cities and better places than we had 20 years ago. This may upset the IT...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/or_the_end_of_l.html Buildings That Crinkle, Buildings That Wave- March 8, 2005 The first role of an urban building is to shape the public realm, making the city more important than the building. The first goal of an avante garde architect in 2005 is to make his or her building unique. The most banal gimmick trumpets the "genius" of the individual architect...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2005/03/buildings_that_.html |