Architecture

Listening For The Elusive Sound Of Ice Chimes

Amanda Loder — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:15:00 +0000

This year, the Dartmouth College campus has become temporary home for a mixed-media menagerie called Ice Chimes. And the 20-foot tall pagoda-like structure outside the Life Sciences building gets a lot of curious stares from students.

Ice Chimes is supposed to be interactive. But it isn’t exactly intuitive.

The End of the Alpine Lodge?

Taylor Quimby — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 14:17:19 +0000

In winter sports communities out west, ski lodges are shedding their antlers for a more contemporary decor. But does the cocoa taste as sweet? And will New England ever give up its slopeside a-frame aesthetic?

Designed for Recovery

Virginia Prescott — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 15:34:01 +0000

Treatment of the mentally ill has come a long way from the dark, locked wards of asylums now shuttered and crumbling in several New England towns. We now know much more about the brain, psychopharmacology and the importance of community for people suffering with profound mental conditions.

Architectural Forensics

Rebecca Lavoie — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:15:28 +0000

Word of mouth producer Rebecca Lavoie tags along with a Chris Carley who scours old buildings for evidence of architectural crimes.

Pyongyang: The Tourist's Guide You'll Never Use

Virginia Prescott — Wed, 02 May 2012 18:00:45 +0000

A conversation with Philipp Meuser, architect and general planner for several German embassies, about his beautiful and eerie two volume architectural and cultural guide for North Korea’s capital city.

Chinese Architect Wang Shu Wins The Pritzker Prize

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:15:00 +0000

For the first time, the Pritzker Architecture Prize has been awarded to an architect based in China. Wang Shu, 49, is interested in preservation, working slowly and tradition — ideals that sometimes seem forgotten in today's booming China.

Uncovering the Stories Behind Manchester's Historic Buildings

Brady Carlson — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:42:00 +0000

Yesterday we talked to the poet laureate of Rochester, who’s been preserving the voices of people who worked at city’s giant factory buildings.

Today we talk with a resident of Manchester who’s preserving the history of the buildings themselves.