The rain stopped just in time for the show. Quite nice, we parked 3 times. It took 2 hours. It was a daytime stroll which was nice, no struggling in the dark, a great thing for architecture tourists. Click the lower right corner of the slide show to … Read more »
Julia over at Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Friday's" blog party. This is my third try.This is the 2009 Shutze Award winner for small renovations. Atlanta architect, D. Stanley Dixon, designed it but architecture tourists are the big win… Read more »
"Why is medieval and renaissance architecture so much better than our own?""Greatest educator of the last 50 years? Well, the late Kenneth Clark has to be in anybody's Top Ten. His 13-part TV documentary Civilisation (that's the British spelling), fi… Read more »
Thanks to "Things That Inspire" I went to the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America Southeast Chapter's 3rd Philip Trammell Shutze Awards last night at the Atlanta History Center. I was certainly among kindred spirits. Folks were ga… Read more »
Misti of Studio M Designs is having here "Here's Your Sign Link Party" This is a word based art, but not really a sign. I tried to find sayings related to home an family.Julia over at Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Friday's" blog party. T… Read more »
This trademark Neel Reid entrance is the fruitiest in Atlanta. These are the Phelan Apartments. With the Palmer House next door. They make the intersection of Peachtree Place and Peachtree Street one of the best corners in Atlanta. Architecture tour… Read more »
From the picture you can't tell that this house is on a busy street in an impressive neighborhood. The lot is small but the setting is a spacious mini-estate. Gravel drives curve around. Click here to see a big picture.Additions on the back preserve … Read more »
Since my Cape Dutch and Dutch gable epiphany I've been searching. Here are scrolls on a mission revival parapet - if that's the term - on the edge of Druid Hills. If you find this one, slow down or you'll miss much high-styled detail.Awnings, urns, t… Read more »
114. HIERARCHY OF OPEN SPACE: Outdoors, people always try to find a spot where they can have their backs protected, looking out toward some larger opening, beyond the space immediately in front of them. (A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construc… Read more »
At the corner of Highland Avenue and Boulevard, just north of Freedom Parkway and the MLK Historic District colored shadows crawl over the facade. The chips defy gravity as they float above the wall. The chips and shadows reward viewing from all angl… Read more »
Julia over at Hooked on Houses is hosting her "Hooked on Friday's" blog party. I don't get invited to many parties so here we are for the first time.I get tired of the dramatically staged, perfectly lit, everything in it's place, and often sterile de… Read more »