Monday, June 25, 2012
CLOSING THE MAGIC PORTAL
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Suppose a developer wanted to advertise the name of his subdivision by building a sign five hundred feet long on a prominent hillside th...
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
SPOTTING THE SIGNATURES
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It’s human nature to crave the fresh, the new, and the fashionable, and that goes for remodeling as much as anything else. The quest for ...
Monday, June 11, 2012
FREEWAY TO NOWHERE
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Charles Kuralt, the longtime “On The Road” correspondent for CBS News, once observed: “Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now p...
Monday, June 4, 2012
HOW TO DRIVE AN ARCHITECT CRAZY
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In contrast to our primadonna image, we architects are for the most part fairly quiet souls. Still, there is one surefire way to get us ap...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
WINDOWS: VINYL, WOOD, OR WHAT?
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Next to a picture of Albert Einstein, a newspaper ad for “beautiful vinyl windows” declares: “It doesn’t take a GENIUS... to buy the right...
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
A LETTER TO PAULINE
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Dear Pauline, It’s me, Arrol, the kid who grew up next door to you back in the old neighborhood in Concord. You used to babysit me, a...
Monday, May 14, 2012
THE BADDEST BOYS ON THE BLOCK
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Architect Frank Furness was a mustachioed bulldog of a man who, by contemporary accounts, seemed better known for his extraordinary cussin...
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