Architectural Ugly Ducklings May Not Get Time to Be Swans Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times The Orange County Government Center in Goshen, N.Y., has been closed since it was damaged by storms in September. By ROBIN POGREBIN Published: April 7, 2012 GOSHEN, N.Y. — As Modernist buildings reach middle age, many of the stark structures that once represented the
By LANA BORTOLOT Whole Foods Market Inc. faces a series of City Council votes starting next week to win final approval for construction of a 52,000-square-foot supermarket next to a 140-year-old landmark in Gowanus, Brooklyn. Enlarge Image Close Eric Haugesag for The Wall Street JournalThe Coignet building today next to the planned Whole Foods grocery site The new store is
By:Edward Keegan Frank Lloyd Wright’s campus at Florida Southern College in Lakeland, Fla.—the largest single collection of Wright buildings in the world—is just one of a baker’s dozen of new National Historic Landmarks designated earlier this week by U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. Other architecturally significant structures that made the distinguished list include the Romanesque Revival-styleGardner Earl Memorial
03/07/2012 Contact: Adam Fetcher, (DOI) 202-208-6416 David Barna, (NPS) 202-208-6843 Hampton Tucker, (NPS) 202- 354-2067 WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar today announced $46.9 million in historic preservation grants to the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Territories, and three affiliated Pacific island states. The grants will enable the states to preserve and protect our nation’s
