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PHOTOS: Roosevelt Island's New Park

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 02.26.2013 | Travel
Read More: James Renwick Jr., Louis Kahn, Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, Smallpox Hospital, Roosevelt Island, United Nations, East River, The Room, Memorial, Dayspring Church, Travel News
Margie Goldsmith

The stone is as grey as the sky. It is beautiful and absolutely silent, a true oasis just a river's length away from bustling midtown and the FDR drive.

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LOOK: FDR Memorial Park Finally Opening

AP | ULA ILNYTZKY | Posted 10.17.2012 | New York
Read More: Louis Kahn, Video, FDR Memorial, Ny News, Roosevelt Island, Fdr Memorial Nyc, Fdr-Four-Freedoms-Park, New York Parks, New York Memorials, Nyc Parks, Fdr, Franklin Roosevelt, East River, Four Freedoms Parks, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, New York News

NEW YORK -- It's been nearly 40 years since New York City started planning a memorial to President Franklin Roosevelt on an island in the East River. ...

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Mega-Architect's Unexpected Hobby

Jacob Slevin | Posted 12.26.2011 | Arts
Read More: Drawing, Design, Architecture, City, Sketching, Painting, Watercolors, Urbanism, A. Eugene Kohn, Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates, Louis Kahn, Arts News
Jacob Slevin

More and more I've become fascinated with architects' alternative forms of creative expression, those lying outside the boundaries of their core work....

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Thoughtful Making of Space

Alla Kazovsky | Posted 08.22.2011 | Arts
Read More: Art Center College of Design, Architecture Education, Saturday High, Louis Kahn, Arts News
Alla Kazovsky

Today I want to concentrate on the concept of shaping, defining space. The quote by Louis Kahn: "Architecture is the thoughtful making of space" is very appropriate.

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The International Festival of Arts and Ideas: A Sure Sign of Summer in New Haven

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 08.13.2011 | Travel
Read More: Louis Kahn, International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Yale, Yo-Yo Ma, Foodie Tour, Architecture, Connecticut, New Haven Green, Travel, Summer Getaway, Arts Festivals, New Haven, Yale Campus, Travel News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

No one cared about the pounding rain as thousands waited for the open-air concert on the historic Green in New Haven, Connecticut. The headliner was internationally renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

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Few Second Acts at U.Va.

J. Michael Welton | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Louis Kahn, Robert A. M. Stern, Mckim, Thomas Jefferson, Hugh Stubbins, Daniel Bluestone, W. G. Clark, Va., U.Va., "Buildings, Historic Preservation, Landscapes and Memory, Stanford White, Mead & White, Sasaki, Pietro Balluschi, Charlottesville, Dawson and Demay, University of Virginia, Michael Graves, Polshek, Louis Ballou, Arts News
J. Michael Welton

Pity the architects who've tried for almost 200 years to follow the genius of Thomas Jefferson at the University of Virginia.

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A Tony Winner Sets Off a Chain of Memories

Lea Lane | Posted 05.25.2011 | Arts
Read More: Louis Kahn, Dustin Hoffman, Red, Chaim Stern, Art, Any WArhol. Jackson Pollock, Sylvia Miles, Drama, Tony Awards, Ann Richards, Plays, Mark Rothko, Anthony Perkins, Mark Medoff, Arts News
Lea Lane

Red sparked my own memories of my life in-and-around New York City. These connections cascaded in a six-degrees-of-Kevin-Bacon kind of way back to the play.

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