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» Famed architectural engineer Cecil Balmond's art installation at the Carnegie fascinates.
In Koolhaas' Bordeaux Villa, Balmond engineered the rectilinearly but precariously cantilevering boxes and beams that seem to upend Modernism and its midwife, gravity.
By Charles Rosenblum |
February 4, 2010
(Art: Architecture)
» While it could have been more exciting architecturally, the new August Wilson Center connects.
Barclay's expressed desire to choose Williams' comparatively restrained proposal over other more adventurous options seems shrewder now than it might have at the time.
By Charles Rosenblum |
September 17, 2009
(Art: Architecture)
» A new exhibit showcases the remarkable work of Mexican architect Fernando Romero.
For all of the insistence on function, process and study, plenty of these works achieve the status of transcendent visual art as well.
By Charles Rosenblum |
February 26, 2009
(Art: Architecture)
» A renowned religious architect's favorite works were built here in Pittsburgh.
Cram believed that he reached his career apogee at East Liberty Presbyterian Church, which he illustrated as the frontispiece to his 1936 biography, My Life in Architecture.
By Charles Rosenblum |
December 11, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Echoes of August Wilson sound in the Hill District's new Carnegie Library.
It's a good place to sit and read with an eye toward what's going on outside, as a variety of people affirmed during my visits.
By Charles Rosenblum |
November 13, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» At its best, the Festival of Lights helps us see architecture differently.
Its real success is not in simply making architecture look different, but in making us look at architecture differently.
By Charles Rosenblum |
October 30, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Suburbia's possibilities, along with its flaws, are explored in a new show at the Carnegie.
Like 18th-century chroniclers of Roman ruins, some of these practitioners see new sources of esthetic exploration even in the overwhelming qualities of suburbia.
By Charles Rosenblum |
October 16, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» An artful addition appends an artist's studio to a traditional Pittsburgh house.
"At one point, Paul said, 'We just need to chop off the back and build a box.'"
By Charles Rosenblum |
October 2, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» A new art exhibition looks at life after retail for abandoned big-box stores.
But the story underscores the power of big-box retailers to siphon the life from the center of town, and then leave with callous abruptness when a better opportunity arrives.
By Charles Rosenblum |
September 4, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Project planners and the public meet to discuss proposed new development in Squirrel Hill
When a group of developers and architects voluntarily makes its plans public, and asks for community feedback, the public should take encouragement.
By Charles Rosenblum |
August 21, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Architecture students get hands-on preservation experience with an historic Friendship mansion.
"The ultimate source of information is the building itself. What does it confirm or disprove?"
By Charles Rosenblum |
August 7, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Two newly reused Braddock church buildings recall the legacy of a wildly original local architect.
There are only hints remaining in the Braddock buildings, but Titus de Bobula was the Pittsburgh area's most wildly original architect at the turn of the 20th century.
By Charles Rosenblum |
July 24, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» We offer a Top 10 list for structures no longer with us.
By Charles Rosenblum |
July 10, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Modern Revival
Finding a Modernist gem in an unlikely place
By Charles Rosenblum |
June 12, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» How do you renovate a 16,000-year-old shelter?
"I love the poetics of how the old roof is supporting the new roof."
By Charles Rosenblum |
May 29, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» On the North Side, activists -- and some neighbors -- want to preserve an historic former bank.
Preservation needs to be a requirement, not just a hope.
By Charles Rosenblum |
May 15, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» Rothschild Doyno Architects' new Strip District headquarters puts theory into practice.
By Charles Rosenblum |
May 1, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» H.H. Richardson's duly famous Allegheny Courthouse gets its own scholarly symposium.
Richardson has long had a curious power to enchant generations of architects with whom he would otherwise seem to have little in common.
By Charles Rosenblum |
April 17, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» How to get redevelopment of the Don Allen car dealership site right.
The greatest tribute the developers could pay to the site's authentic history is to leave the two historic structures in place.
By Charles Rosenblum |
April 3, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
» A big Cultural Trust development project is on hold, but the smart design principles it embodies highlight an intriguing Heinz Architectural Center exhibit.
Its crisply detailed sensibility of a village of glass contrasts tellingly with the corporate slapdash of a PPG Place.
By Charles Rosenblum |
March 20, 2008
(Art: Architecture)
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