Posts Tagged ‘Gropius’

My favourite modernist building … Gordon Drake’s houses

Tuesday, September 20th, 2016

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When did “modernist” work start and finish?  (more…)

from the Similarity Files – Boston City Hall

Sunday, November 8th, 2009

Boston City Hall by Kallmann, McKinnell, and Knowles

The connection here is more than obvious, and not exactly news either, but it is extra-topical in some ways. Just as our very very poor imitation of this building is slated for demolition (it might as well be), so too is the Mayor of Boston, Thomas Menino, proposing the abandonment of the Boston City Plaza, Hall and all, and relocating the Government Center to a South Boston site. (more…)