Veritas et Venustas"Renewing Tradition for the 21st Century." Keywords: architecture, urbanism, classical architecture, traditional urbanism, New Urbanism, Classical Liberalism, ProgressivismWe Build This City- April 30, 2008 NEW YORK CITY's Sustainable Streets program is an important development. Download the plan here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/build-this-city.html All the best blocks in New York,- April 30, 2008 are shaped by stone and brick buildings. If you don't agree, show me the block. Non-architects don't find this surprising. They look around and say, "Of course." Look at Time Out's list of The 50 Best Blocks in New York. Time Out is hip and young and has nothing against...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/all-the-best-bl.html PS: Urbanism & An Architecture of Place- April 28, 2008 ON MY WAY TO BEDFORD, I drove by the the new Yankee Stadium. It's next to the old stadium (ruined by blind engineers in the early 1970s), and unlike CitiField, is urban. Down the hill from the Grand Concourse, next to the subway, the new stadium usually comes right up...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/ps-urbanism-an.html Urbanism and An Architecture of Place- April 27, 2008 CitiField has no city, and the Metropolitans have no metropolis. OVER AT DESIGN OBSERVER, the great Michael Bierut wrote a good piece on baseball parks that I thought was a little too quick to equate traditional design with "nostalgia" while asking the question, "Why is it so hard to build...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/urbanism-and-an.html Live from New York- April 18, 2008 It was 72 as the Stock Exchange closed for the day, and Stone Street started to fill up. One hour later: A father and son team own most of the restaurants on Stone Street, the oldest paved street in America (some claim). Private ventures joined city and state agencies in...http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/live-from-new-y.html Because if there's anything New York City needs it's another glass-covered office building ...- April 17, 2008 UPDATE: Curbed readers comment here. 1775 Broadway (above), soon to be 3 Columbus Circle (below) To get the glass on, workers are today hammering the cornice off this old friend (the Newsweek Building), designed by the architects of the Empire State Building. More photos and info Curbedhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/because-if-ther.html Munich, My Munich- April 14, 2008 Copyright R. Sterflinger. Courtesy of the Fremdenverkehrsamt Mnchen. THE NEW YORK TIMES wrote about Munich here. I wrote about it here. NY Times: Munich Redux: Germanys Hot Spot of the Moment V&V: Munich, New York & Starchitectshttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/munich-my-munic.html (Untitled)- April 5, 2008 Green Council for Architecture & Urbanism Buy it here.http://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/green-council-f.html (Untitled)- April 4, 2008 CNU XVI - Green Council Download The Canons for Sustainable Architecture & Urbanismhttp://massengale.typepad.com/venustas/2008/04/cnu-xvi---green.html |