- Description: The Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT, became a National Trust for Historic Preservation site three years ago. Since then the Trust’s careful stewardship of the site limits the number of visitors each day to maintain the quiet reserve of this important estate and its rich collection of structures that served as Johnson’s Modernism laboratory for nearly six decades.
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- Description: The Yankee Stadium and its new park are just down the street from another public building complex: the Bronx County Hall of Justice. The Hall (or courthouse) opened for business in January 2008, and it was designed by Rafael Vinoly Architects. The building’s exterior is luminous and translucent, made up of glass panels, and the block-long façade is broken up into several parts, moving in and out along 161st Street, with stretches of a zig-zag glass wall that provides a lovely texture along the street.
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- Description: Recently I was part of a group of city officials who attended a meeting at Yankee Stadium to brainstorm the future plans for the ballpark. Much discussion was given to the current design of the new stadium and the subsequent plans in place to honor its history.
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