Architecture
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Architectural Detail of Webster Avenue Bridge Improvements
The Depression-era railings for the Webster Avenue Bridge have been replaced, and they are worthy.
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Abu Dhabi Slide Show, October 2022
I’ve always been attracted, since my 1970s, to the idea of a vacation slide show, with a Kodak carousel in living room darkness and screen-light. If you can handle it, re-watch Don Draper explain the carousel and the surprising corrosiveness of nostalgia: My wife and I just took a trip to Abu Dhabi with a…
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Socio-Architectural Renderings from Abu Dhabi
Here’s drawings I made from our hotel room in Abu Dhabi:
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Medical Sciences Building (MSB) at the University of Toronto
I stumbled, as I often do, on a Brutalist masterpiece the other day. I was in Toronto, minding my own business, walking through the University of Toronto campus toward the Ontario Royal Museum, when I encountered the striated ornamental edifice of the Medical Sciences Building (MSB). The building is slated for a $40M modernization, as this…
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Lamppost studies, Lake Shore Drive at 59th Street Harbor / Jackson Park Lagoon Bridge
I am trying to learn how to sketch. Over the weekend, I attended (not ran in 🙂 the Chicago Half Marathon. The course for the race started in Jackson Park, basically at the site of the proposed Obama Presidential Library. I like nature, architecture, and pictures, so S-L and I walked the course up to…