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Nov 20, 2024 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
Long revered as one of New York’s most outstanding and inspiring houses of worship, Trinity Church Wall Street is the soaring, brownstone centerpiece of lower Manhattan that introduced the city to chocolate-colored masonry and the revitalized Gothic style. Completed in 1846 by British-American architect Richard Upjohn to replace an earlier church, it broke new ground in ecclesiastical architecture with its direct expression of structure that is supported, rather than concealed, by ornament.
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Sep 26, 2024 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
Buffalo is an architecture town, a veritable Who’s Who of world-class buildings by names like Louis Sullivan, H. H. Richardson, and Frank Lloyd Wright. High on the list is the Albright-Knox Art Museum in the Frederick Law Olmsted-designed Delaware Park, with additions by Gordon Bunshaft and anchored by the 1905 Albright Art Gallery, the neoclassical masterpiece of architect Edward B. Green.
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May 28, 2024 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
Texas is famed for its historic landmarks—think The Alamo or San Antonio’s River Walk—but that’s not to overlook its wealth of period revival country houses, such as the work of architect John Staub. The recent restoration and renovation of a Staub-designed house by Hull Homes of Fort Worth helps show why. The 1929 house is a prime example of the prolific Houston designer in his heyday.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
Among the beauties of traditional windows and doors is their versatility, fitting architecture from the colonial era to modern times. Another is their adaptability, especially in the hands of skilled producers who can customize them to meet specialized uses and installations.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
The 1828 Rotunda at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville is not only the centerpiece of the historic campus but also the quintessence of Neoclassical architecture in America. Designed by Thomas Jefferson and inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, it features 16 columns topped by marble Corinthian capitals, all but lost along with much of the Rotunda in a disastrous 1895 fire.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
October 2023 landed me in Seattle, Washington, for the annual conference of the Association of Preservation Technology International (APTI.org), the multidisciplinary organization dedicated to promoting the best technology for conserving/preserving historic structures and their settings.It’s a yearly meeting of the minds that I’ve attended periodically since the 1980s, and over four days of 60-plus education sessions, workshops, and events, I was honored to present a paper of APT’s mission is...
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Nov 9, 2023 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
As often happens with historic buildings, one major project begat another while restoring the Bruce C. Bates Colonnade at the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York. “For many years, the colonnade had been enclosed with just its original storm panels,” explains Richard N. Osgood, Jr., senior project manager at Bero Architecture PLLC in Rochester.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
How do you renew and enlarge a revered historic college building to meet 21st-century needs without overriding its collegiate Gothic style? That was the challenge Yale University faced in repurposing a 90-year-old complex, with a long history of residential and classroom use, in order to consolidate far-flung academic departments into a new Humanities Quadrangle. Led by architect Ann M.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
While the pandemic put the brakes on a lot of activities after 2021, many companies in the metalworking industry still forged ahead with outstanding projects, as this sampling shows. Award-Winning Bronzework for Wiemann Metalcraft_Hats off to the folks at Wiemann Metalcraft of Tulsa, Oklahoma, for winning the prestigious 2023 North American Copper in Architecture (NACIA) award for its bronze gates submission.
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Sep 8, 2023 | 
traditionalbuilding.com | Gordon Bock
As an aspiring fruit tree orchardist and longstanding vegetable gardener (even a onetime agricultural student), I sometimes quip I don’t grow anything I can’t eat, but that’s just to hint at the limits of my experience with landscape design. In their latest monograph, Intersection of Nature and Art, James Doyle Design Associates did a lot to open my horticultural eyes.
