Andrea Fineman's Blog – November 2010 Archive (3)

Conference attendees at BuildBoston yesterday afternoon crowded around the Boston Society of Architects' presentation space for the 20th edition of PechaKucha Boston. The event, a mini-symposium that takes place a few times a year, brings together design professionals to give talks on their work under a rigorous format: each speaker can have twenty… Continue

A recent news item in Preservation Magazine brought to my attention this planned demolition at JFK airport in New York City. I. M. Pei's Terminal 6, built in 1970 for National Airlines and used in the past few years by JetBlue, sits next to Eero… Continue

“Architecture is not about self-expression,” said Gerhard Kallmann, the architect who, along with partner Michael McKinnell, designed Boston City Hall. Unlike painting and sculpture, architecture rarely wears its message on its sleeve. Though architectural movements are fraught with ideology, the average citizen, government bureaucrat, or mayor isn’t likely to read the story of decades of architectural and sociological debate in the design of one of the city’s… Continue