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Another parking garage, as pictured above?
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Or, as pictured above, a “twin tower” of apartments and stores surrounded by smaller buildings with a pedestrian neighborhood feel?
Those are two competing visions now on the table for the 1.6‑acre asphalt stretch of Union Avenue between Route 34 and the existing Union Station parking garage.
by | Jan 7, 2019 8:34 am | Comments (19)
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Gioia Connell presents ideas at brainstorming session.
Two 10-story residential towers, skirted by businesses and artist lofts. A village of shipping containers, arrayed by young architects. An outdoor beer garden. Protected bike lanes. Parks and plazas.
Fifteen New Urbanist advocates presented those ideas as better alternatives to a massive new parking garage at Union Station.
by | Jan 3, 2019 8:26 am | Comments (1)
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Old Light Signal on Long Wharf, 1933.
Yale-New Haven Hospital sits on the place where a church once burned from arson and buried its dead. The Long Wharf light, now electric, was for a time lit every night by a man named Tom Wilson, who died just as he was about to light it one night in 1910. And College Street Music Hall stands where a church — the College Street Church — was built, then converted into a music hall that was lost in a fire in 1921 that killed eight people and injured more than 70.
by | Jan 2, 2019 5:24 pm | Comments (5)
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Demolition at Church Street South.
Jonathan Hopkins & Inner-City News Editor and radio host Babz Rawls-Ivy, a former Church Street South tenant, at the exhibit.
Church Street South may have disappeared, but the debate continues over what New Haven should learn from the housing development’s demise.
Thank Jonathan Hopkins for that.
The New Haven-bred architect and new urbanism advocate revived the complex’s complex history in an exhibition at Yale’s architecture school, at the corner of York and Chapel streets.
Continue reading ‘From Ashes Of Disaster, A Challenge Arises’
by | Dec 12, 2018 1:32 pm | Comments (11)
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A rendering of the future Valley Street memorial.
A memorial to remember those lost to gun violence has secured more than half of the money it needs to become a reality, thanks to the State Bond Commission and Gov. Dan Malloy.
by | Nov 23, 2018 12:57 pm | Comments (7)
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Spencer Luckey inside his bigger new plant.
Inside a Mill River factory where workers once made parts for jet engines, a new crew is designing and building bean-stalk and leaf-petal-designed children’s climbing sculptures to ship to California and the Middle East.
by | Sep 20, 2018 8:13 am | Comments (47)
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Lost Generation memorial garden site on Valley Street.
Plans to build a new memorial park dedicated to New Haven victims of gun violence are one big step closer to becoming a reality now that the city’s Parks Commission has officially signed off on the project concept and location.
by | Sep 17, 2018 3:46 pm | Comments (21)
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The boathouse gets long-awaited ribbon-cutting Monday. (The nautical flags translate to spell New Haven.)
It took about 20 years, but the new Canal Dock Boathouse is open and ready to connect people to water.
by | Sep 13, 2018 7:56 am | Comments (7)
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David Moser receiving the City Spirit Award in April.
The city’s longtime landscape architect, David Moser, has died at the age of 65 after a long fight with cancer.
His death came on the same day as the formal opening of one of his most notable achievements, the redesign and expansion of the Edgewood Skate Park.
Continue reading ‘City Landscape Architect David Moser Dies’
by | Jul 5, 2018 8:10 am | Comments (6)
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Design crew on site Tuesday.
In the thick of a heat wave, the Yale School of Architecture first-years came together this week to start building a two-story home on 41 – 43 Button St. for a homeless family and a single renter.
by | May 21, 2018 2:09 pm | Comments (26)
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Most recent iteration of design from the perspective of Whalley Avenue.
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Previous interim design shown at a February meeting.
The original design presented at BZA in January.
After enduring criticism of their initial design, the developer and architect who plan to transform the vacant lot where the former Delaney’s used to stand showed off the latest iteration at the City Plan Commission.
by | May 16, 2018 7:40 am | Comments (5)
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Trinity Church Home Chapel, part of the Metro-Star complex, 301 George St.
A 21st Century local hero and a “jewel of 19th Century reality” were among the people and buildings recognized at the 2018 New Haven Preservation Trust awards ceremony.
Continue reading ‘Preservation Trust Awards Hail Jewels & Heroes’
by | Apr 3, 2018 2:15 pm | Comments (4)
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An in-plain-sight revelation in the new book Yale’s Hidden Treasures.
Michael Stern noticed a bulldog dressed as a judge, a surveyor riding a mule, and a court jester blinding justice hiding in plain sight in New Haven.
by | Feb 2, 2018 1:44 pm | Comments (11)
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The Canal Dock Boathouse , nearing completion.
The new Canal Dock Boathouse is getting closer to the finish line, and it is a thing of beauty.
by | Oct 3, 2017 8:17 am | Comments (8)
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54 Adeline, unveiled Monday night.
Menghi Li, who worked on the terrace.
A homeless family will be able to look out onto Adeline Street while cooking dinner and also find privacy in a rock garden, thanks to the design of the latest house Yale architecture students built in New Haven.
by | Sep 22, 2017 8:25 am | Comments (14)
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Doug Hausladen with contestants Kassandra Leiva and Misha Semenov.
You’re walking past El Tapatio on Grand Avenue and need a place to rest your feet. Outside. The options are slim: sitting on the sidewalk, or trying to snag one of the limited spaces by nearby Christopher Columbus Family Academy.
Just as you’re ready to give up, you spot a new, pint-sized urban oasis: tables and chairs, tree-like sculptures, long wispy grasses and a dainty fence around the outside. All small enough to fit inside two parking spaces.
Continue reading ‘Designers Dream Up City’s Next Sidewalk “Parklets”’
by | Aug 21, 2017 12:42 pm | Comments (7)
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Hopkins describes some of the architectural details of Church Street South.
Concrete quoining at the corner of one of the end walls of Church Street South.
Jonathan Hopkins stood on a grassy hill overlooking a nearly vacant housing complex and pointed out some of its buildings’ distinguishing architectural characteristics.
by | May 19, 2017 2:16 pm | Comments (8)
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Artist Stewart outside her studio.
Sarah Stewart turns out oil-on-linen paintings in the factory complex that once turned out erector sets for the nation — and now New Haven’s zoning rules are catching up with the economic transformation there.
by | May 16, 2017 4:27 pm | Comments (5)
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Schaefer’s Lane-Hubbard house, City Point, 1871
When officials at the New Haven Preservation Trust told Chris Schaefer they wanted to recognize his work over the last 31 years in lovingly restoring his 1871 oysterwoman’s home on Second Street in City Point, his first response was, “But I’m not done yet.”
He told them he needed about six more years to finish up before being considered for an award. Their response: “We don’t want to give it posthumously.”
Continue reading ‘Preservation Awards Honor “Walk Into The Past”’
by | Mar 3, 2017 4:43 pm | Comments (4)
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Student Padro offers ideas at session with city.
Dad lingers in the skating rink’s light-flooded entrance after dropping off his daughters to hockey practice at 2 p.m. When he picks them up at 4, the glass has clouded over to the color of milk.
by | Nov 24, 2016 10:24 am | Comments (10)
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Ewing beneath Davenport (in window).
Thanksgiving for the 1639 Puritan founders of New Haven’s first church, Center Church on the Green, wasn’t about turkeys. It was all about prayer, humility, and expressing gratitude, no frills attached.
by | Oct 13, 2016 8:11 am | Comments (0)
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Religious institutions across New Haven are adding new, ADA-compliant measures for congregants with limited mobility. But it’s not as architecturally easy as one might think.
Continue reading ‘If You Don’t Build It, They Will Not Come’
by | Oct 6, 2016 12:08 pm | Comments (3)
As I followed a dotted line of orange tape into an old bathroom at New Haven’s Goffe Street Armory, Martial Chazallon’s voice flowed from a pair of earbuds into my ears, directing me to sit in a plush armchair and start to relax.
Sit down, he urged, the command softened in the thick webbing of his French accent. Place your hands on your knees. Back straight against your chair. Feet flat on the floor. Are you feeling the solidness of that floor through your shoes, your socks? Listen to your breath. Listen to the building.
by | Oct 4, 2016 8:12 pm | Comments (4)
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The colleges as they go up.
The biggest construction project in New Haven has segued from the new Pearl Harbor Bridge to the new Pauli Murray and Benjamin Franklin Colleges at Yale.
Huge yellow cranes hover above almost five acres of rigorously scheduled construction. The end goal: Two dormitories to house 800 new bodies and their ancillary social, educational, and gastronomic activities.
by | Sep 30, 2016 12:13 pm | Comments (2)
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Not too many Elm Citizens — even the most preservation-minded — can tell you at the drop of a three-cornered hat to name the oldest surviving Federalist commercial building in the New Haven area.
One woman who can is 95-year-old Deb Townshend, Fair Haven’s most eminent historian, and the woman who three decades ago saved that very building from the wrecking ball.
Continue reading ‘All Hail The King’s Block At Bicentennial’