Moshe Safdie

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Fall arts picks: Architecture

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Michael Kinsley: You can't cut that

2011-03-15 00:00:00

A block from the Lincoln Memorial and right across the street from the State Department, a gorgeous new building is just being completed. Designed by the famous Canadian architect Moshe Safdie, it is the new headquarters of the United States Institute...

Montreal by Bixi bicycle

2010-09-26 00:00:00

Call me a tightwad, but when I heard that Montreal had rental bikes you can pick up and drop off all over town for a mere $5 Canadian a day (about $4.85 U.S.), it was like angels singing. See the city, sample the local cuisine and work it off without...

'My Two Polish Grandfathers and Other Essays on the Imaginative Life' by Witold Rybczynski

2009-03-01 00:00:00

My Two Polish Grandfathers And Other Essays on the Imaginative Life Witold Rybczynski Scribner: 228 pp., $25 Overrun by exhibitionists, the memoir has turned spuriously confessional. Yet if there's one life story that could stand a bit more self-...

Not a five-and-dime operation

2012-04-15 15:33:00

BENTONVILLE, Ark. — A French chef selling crepes from a food cart on an Arkansas city street may seem out of place, but business is very good for Crepes Paulette. It's about to get a lot better. The wagon is parked at the head of a scenic path...

Kauffman Center Ready to Take Center Stage

2011-09-15 16:12:00

After more than 15 years of planning and construction, the dream of Muriel Kauffman is about to see its curtain rise as the massive Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts opens on Friday night. The grand lobby of the $326 million facility includes a...

Kansas City envy

2011-11-02 16:32:57

Scaling aesthetic heights

2005-07-31 00:00:00

Let's set aside, for a second, the hardheaded question of whether Spanish architect and engineer Santiago Calatrava's twisting 2,000-foot Chicago tower will ever get built. In a way, it doesn't matter. Last Wednesday's unveiling of the dazzling, but...

Merrimack Valley/North Shore - Massachusetts

2002-09-24 04:55:22

MERRIMACK VALLEY CHELMSFORD >> Chelmsford Dining Suggestions Vincenzo's, 170 Concord Road, Chelmsford. (978) 256-1250. TYNGSBORO >> Tyngsboro Lodging and Dining Suggestions Stonehedge Inn, 160 Pawtucket Blvd., Tyngsboro. (978) 649-4400 or (888) 649-...

'My Architect'

2004-01-23 00:00:00

When the visionary American architect Louis I. Kahn died in 1974 at age 73, his front page New York Times obituary listed a wife and a daughter as his only survivors. Not quite. For Kahn, a flawed man whose buildings were impeccable, left not one but...

The charm of rural living -- in the city

2001-11-11 00:00:00

Coldspring New Town seems more like a park than a city neighborhood. Just minutes west of Interstate 83, this hilltop, wooded North Baltimore neighborhood has pedestrian paths that wind among playgrounds and its own bird sanctuary. "You can escape to...

Any place that can mesh river safaris with rooftop sky-parks, lush beer gardens, eco hotels, and a floating Louis Vuitton Island, has to be in the know. And any trendsetter who appreciates beauty and balance will appreciate Marina Bay Sands' ArtScience Museum.

2011-05-27 12:37:04

Architects present their ideas for the new University of Baltimore School of Law building.

2008-11-15 00:00:00

Moshe Safdie gestures toward the tower in a model of his proposed design for the University of Baltimore School of Law building. Behind him is university President Robert Bogomolny.

2008-11-14 00:00:00