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Apr
GREAT BUILDINGS should be preserved and restored, as Yale University plans to do with its Art and Architecture center, not demolished and replaced, as Mayor Menino envisions for Boston City Hall. The mayor needs to return to his roots as a preservationist to save and improve this icon of the New Boston in the 1960s.
In New Haven last week, Robert Stern, dean of the School of Architecture, was busy preparing to move the school out of the building for a year so that it could be fitted with new ceilings, lighting, and air conditioning. “It’s extremely important,” he said of the building, which was designed by Paul Rudolph and finished in 1963. “It represented a break from the increasingly wayward direction of modern architecture.” (more…)
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