Local officials, preservationists and historians are pushing to scale back Trump's planned arch, advocating the slender columns originally envisioned by architects and lawmakers a century ago.
Seoul's Jongno-3 ga has been given a major designation. CNN's Gage Goulding takes a look.
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Copenhagen again tops world rankings for livability, but it wasn't always like this. Denmark's capital had to be re-designed, by people like Helle, who co-founded urban design firm Gehl. Ahead of CNN's Global Perspectives event in Bangkok on October 14, we meet the people re-shaping cities for humans.
Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. The post The Age of the Ego appeared first on The American Conservative .
Culture Culture The Age of the Ego Graffitists and modern architects alike are screaming into the void of mass culture. Photo by Romain Doucelin/NurPhoto via Getty Images Once more on my way from the center of Paris to the airport, I marvelled at the sheer hideousness of almost everything built since the end of the Second World War, the precise time when France was becoming richer than it had ever been. There must be a lesson here somewhere, but I don’t know what it is. Also remarkable, though not pleasing, was the sheer scale of the spray-painted tagging of practically…Open
Photo Credit:Kollner, Augustus, 1813-1906, artist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller Classical order, national identity, and the modernist assault on Washington.
“We may be hearing but not listening,” Jacek Smolicki said, showing a reporter how sound travels through tree roots in Central Park and amplifying the scraping of aquatic snails.
President Donald Trump has blamed vandals, but a Washington Post analysis finds that the peeling tracks closely with stages of the renovation process.
The Commission of Fine Arts is set to consider the administration’s proposal regarding Lafayette Square Park, which has been the site of numerous protests.
President Donald Trump's plan to build a triumphal arch that would alter the Washington, D.C., skyline is getting another review from the federal agency whose approval he needs to build it
The growing list of issues surrounding the renovations at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool is creating an unwelcome distraction for President Trump as he seeks to complete beautification projects in Washington ahead of the nation’s 250th anniversary next month. Clumps of algae appeared on the floor of the pool within days of the iconic landmark being repainted “American flag blue,” leading to crews pouring in hydrogen peroxide and using special nanobubbler technology at the direction of the Interior Department. Shortly after that, photos emerged showing the paint job peeling off and rising to the surface of the pool. Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5935054-reflecting-pool-algae-dead-duck/ #LincolnMemorial…