Modernism, despite the popularity of Mad Men and shelter magazines like Dwell, is under assault. Iconic works of architecture and landscape architecture from the 1960s and 1970s have a particularly high mortality rate, though because of cultural and other biases, it’s usually the endangered buildings we hear about and not the landscapes. Two places, both recognized as Modernist masterworks, are
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
