Modernism Becomes Hip(ster)
by | Oct 20, 2015 12:01 pm | Comments (0)
Once decried as the ruination of our small New England city, Old Timey Mod is now cool for those moving back into the city from the suddenly New Lame Burbs.
Architecture
Transit Hub, Flop House Or Historic Space?
by | Oct 19, 2015 5:12 pm | Comments (8)
Michael Melford Photo
Every New England Green is a civic platform, a respite from hubbub. But it’s also a blank canvass for social, cultural, and political event.
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Will Our Bubble Burst?
by | Oct 9, 2015 12:55 pm | Comments (0)
With over 1,000 new apartments moving on line in a couple of years, most well over $2,000 a month in rent, will supply drown demand and pop New Have’s wee rental housing bubble?
State Funding Cuts Imperil Preservation
by | Sep 28, 2015 3:13 pm | Comments (0)
We do not frack. We lost our factories generations ago. Marijuana legalization is not yet a profit center for Connecticut.
Demolition By Neglect
by | Sep 8, 2015 7:31 am | Comments (0)
Sometimes neglect serves the purposes of those who want out of a piece of real estate.
Looking For Public Art? There’s A Site For That
by | Jun 9, 2015 11:29 am | Comments (7)
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Tim Prentiss’ shimmering Windframe, fluttering in the breeze that comes off of Long Wharf. Electroland’s College Faces, staring out from that bright and bold LED display at Gateway Community College each evening. Swoon’s Katherine G and Dawn and Gemma, darkened and cracked around the edges. Claes Oldenberg’s cloistered Lipstick (Ascending) on Caterpillar Tracks, locked away to weather alone in a college courtyard after making a political stir. The list goes on.
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Architect Couple, Institute Library Snag Awards
by | May 27, 2015 4:10 pm | Comments (3)
Allan Appel Photo
Count ‘em: 40 wooden exterior windows on an 1895 house — forget new aluminum ones and the ugly sash running across them — have been lovingly restored.
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Modern Monuments Woman Delivers Cultural First Aid
by | May 15, 2015 8:45 am | Comments (1)
Jihadis and other zealots around the world are destroying the cultural heritage of those they disagree with. It has happened before, during World War II and the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, to name a couple instances. But today there’s a concerted new international effort to provide a kind of cultural first aid and disaster planning, in advance, to museums, archives, and archeological sites under threat.
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Kahnversation Engaged
by | Apr 14, 2015 2:55 pm | Comments (3)
Picture this: It is the end of the 1960s. Social unrest consumes New Haven and at Yale, several student groups have gotten caught up in the fervor of it. Ignoring the tenor of the time, American philanthropist Paul Mellon has decided to dump a bunch of money and his extensive collection of British art on New Haven. Suddenly, all the university needs for a new museum is an architect and a director.
Fair Haven’s “Old Barge” Going Home—To NYC
by | Mar 23, 2015 4:38 pm | Comments (2)
Allan Appel Photo
Lisa Fitch has for a year refused to put her Fair Haven marina up for sale until she fulfilled a quest: find someone to preserve the historic oyster barge that has been at the south end of her Front Street property for nearly a century.
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Anchor Owner: Everything Must Go
by | Jan 14, 2015 4:05 pm | Comments (12)
Paul Bass Photo
Charlie Moore’s 89-year-old mother needs medical care. So the late lamented Anchor bar’s signature sign, along with its jukebox, are up for sale.
Jesus Pops Out Of Pastry
by | Jan 7, 2015 9:04 am | Comments (0)
Aliyya Swaby Photo
On Three Kings Day, baby Jesus popped out of a fig-topped “rosca de reyes” from a Mexican-owned bakery on Grand Avenue. Hundreds of baby Jesuses in hundreds of fig-topped roscas de reyes.
Lawns Transformed Into Sculpture Galleries
by | Jan 2, 2015 9:26 am | Comments (5)
On the front lawn of the Marvelwood Drive home of Ted Baldwin and Barbara Geller, a young giraffe stretches for food. Nearby, its towering parent surveys the landscape.
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6 Arts Heroes Honored
by | Dec 8, 2014 9:27 am | Comments (3)
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Winfred Rembert
It was expected that the Arts Council of Greater New Haven’s annual arts award ceremony, held at the New Haven Lawn Club on Friday, would be a celebration. It also ended up being one of unexpected emotion and depth.
Halfway House Hijinks Jump To Silver Screen
by | Dec 2, 2014 3:55 pm | Comments (1)
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Filmmakers Moore and Vega.
A New Haven street outreach worker and his partner in cinematography are bringing “the craziest halfway house on Earth” to the Criterion.
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1882 Mansion Gets New Lease On Life
by | Dec 1, 2014 12:54 pm | Comments (6)
David Sepulveda Photo
Decorative tile and wood trim.
Standing amid the soaring ceilings and architectural splendor of the 19th century Anderson Mansion, Shmully Hecht vowed to prevent a “crime” — by reviving the East Rock treasure.
“Accidental” Art Comes To Parking Garages
by | Nov 24, 2014 1:05 pm | Comments (10)
Allan Appel Photo
Crown Street Garage colorful facade viewed from College Street.
Green, blue, tangerine, tomato red, lavender, pop out lime, and yellow. This spectrum of colors soon may be a well-recognized pattern in our town — and in that order, from bottom to top — as you ascend from level to level on all city parking garages.
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Architects Sketch Q House To Life
by | Sep 12, 2014 7:57 am | Comments (19)
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A two-story central atrium exhibiting community artwork and artifacts. Two “child development” activity rooms for young people. A teaching kitchen to host cooking classes. A rooftop patio with herb gardens for seniors. A music recording studio adjacent to a teen lounge. A half-court gymnasium.
Preservationists Applaud A “Baker’s Dozen” Rehab
by | Sep 5, 2014 2:33 pm | Comments (3)
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Pastor begins the tour.
Touring a freshly renovated building at 250 Crown St., 25 members of the New Haven Preservation Trust had to side step some boxes and a bit of the normal chaos associated with students moving into new digs. But this was no ordinary “rooming house,” and the new tenants, no ordinary students.
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Climbing Kids Get Luckey
by | Aug 8, 2014 8:20 am | Comments (1)
Thomas MacMillan Photo
Surveying the spiral spine of a new play structure his company is installing in New Haven, Spencer Luckey marveled at his good fortune: He gets to doodle for a living, making far-fetched plans for enormous dreamscapes, and then sees them come to life in cities across the globe.
“Shantytown” Sparkles By The Q
by | Jul 18, 2014 3:24 pm | Comments (7)
Thomas MacMillan Photo
A decade ago, Curtis Libert found a riverside dump with dead dogs and old mattresses. He transformed it into a treasure trove of fruit trees, plastic kiddie bikes, a time-traveling easy chair, and royal red carpet.
Historian Takes Construction Protest To New Level
by | May 9, 2014 8:43 am | Comments (10)
With the help of some stepladders, local historian Rob Greenberg stepped up his efforts to bring attention to the danger of losing colonial artifacts that might be unearthed at a downtown construction site.
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This Old House Wins An Award
by | May 6, 2014 2:21 pm | Comments (15)
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When a young couple bought a Quinnipiac Avenue house in 2010, they thought they’d found a bargain. Then they peeled off the vinyl siding and realized they also had a chance to bring a historic home back to life.
Stone Steps To Justice Return
by | May 6, 2014 11:46 am | Comments (0)
Paul Bass Photos
Gagnon: “Getting ready for the next pour.”
Mason Bob Wice.
One hundred years after a grand courthouse opened for business, a crew restoring it to its former grandeur began bringing back its granite steps.
The Rent Hits $4,995
by | Mar 27, 2014 8:13 am | Comments (28)
Lucy Gellman Photo
Silt-covered floors layered with rough wood beams and hail-sized chunks of concrete. Wires dropping and curling overhead like slender garden snakes. Two sinks, back to back, lying on the dusty floor of a would-be study.