Architecture

pen4hire on November 21st, 2011

Destination: United States Book: America’s Great Railroad Stations. (NEW Oct. 2011)Photos by Roger Straus III and text by Ed Breslin and Hugh Van Dusen. Toward the end of the year, we can count on some blockbuster books emerging to tempt us as we do holiday shopping.  I already told you about one of my favorites, in [...]

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pen4hire on September 28th, 2011

We saw this oddity at the Paris Mint–La Monnaie de Paris, which is located on Quai de Conti, at the corner of Guénégaud, the street where our apartment was located when we traveled to Paris last September. These iron bars are on the Guénégaud side of the building. Here’s another shot: Any architectural scholars out there [...]

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pen4hire on June 19th, 2009

Christopher Hitchens writes eloquently in Vanity Fair about Acropolis Museum. Just one of many world wide articles.

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