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Will The NY Times Be Able to Save a Frank Lloyd Wright House?
The David Wright House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (image via colinedwardslais.blogspot.com) A stunning spiral house designed by Frank Lloyd Wright in Phoenix, Arizona, faces potential demolition...
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Frank Lloyd Wright House Escapes Demolition for Now
The David Wright House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (image via change.org) A few days ago, we asked whether the New York Times could save a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix from demolition. The...
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East Village Gets a New Historic District
This map of the proposed East Village Historic District was approved with slight modifications. (image via www.nyc.gov) This week New York’s East Village went from having only two tiny historic...
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Threatened Frank Lloyd Wright House Is Saved
The David and Gladys Wright House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright (image via change.org) While most of us don’t believe in Christmas miracles, this story may come close. Two and a half months after a...
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Downton Abbey and the Perils of Preservation
The shooting location for Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle (Photo by Richard Munckton) Downton Abbey is downsizing — or at least it was, for a hot second. If you’ve been following the post-Edwardian...
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What’s Happening to Culture in Europe?
Dansgroep Amsterdam performing at the Van Gogh Museum (image via Flickr/Van Gogh Museum) The latest news from Europe this week is that everything is falling apart — at least in terms of arts and...
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Retro-Futuristic Pan Am Worldport at JFK in Danger of Demolition
Pan Am Worldport, now Delta Airlines Terminal 3 (courtesy Save the Pan Am Worldport) Part of aviation architecture history may soon be lost if Delta’s expansion project at JFK airport goes forward as...
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What Should MoMA Do With the American Folk Art Museum?
The American Folk Art Museum building in April 2011. (image via flickr.com/zokuga) There is a growing uproar over the news, first reported in the New York Times yesterday, that the venerable Museum of...
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Pending Post Office Sale Threatens Depression-Era Murals
One of the Ben Shahn and Bernrda Bryson murals in the Bronx General Post Office (image via bronxbohemian.wordpress.com) Although the U.S. Postal Service is now being forced to scrap its plan to end...
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The New Frontier of Space Preservation
Buzz Aldrin at the Apollo 11 moon landing site (via NASA) Some of the most historic sites of human history aren’t even on our planet. On the moon are the six lunar landing sites left from NASA’s 1969...
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The Heart of Tibet Is Being Radically Changed into a Shopping Center
The Barkhor, the circumambulation road around the Jokhang Temple. (all images courtesy Tsering Woeser) The city of Lhasa, up on the Tibetan Plateau, is the capital of the Tibet Autonomous Region in...
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See America’s 11 Newest Endangered Historic Places
The National Trust for Historic Places has released its 2013 list of endangered historic places, adding 11 new buildings and locations to hundreds of heritage sites around the country that have been...
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Orson Welles: Lost and Found
Still from “Too Much Johnson” (Mercury Theatre, Orson Welles dir., US 1938) (Courtesy Cinemazero and Cineteca del Friuli) The only surviving copy of Orson Welles’ 1930 silent film Too Much Johnson was...
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Destroy the Brutalism, Leave the Picasso: A Debate Over What’s Worth Saving...
Detail of “The Fisherman” mural by Picasso and Carl Nesjar (photograph by Statsministerens kontor/Flickr user) After being damaged by a 2011 car bomb, some Brutalist architecture in Oslo is up for...
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Six NYC Places Most in Danger of Disappearing This Fall
Archive photo of the interior of the Pan Am Worldport (when it was still known as the Pan Am Terminal) (courtesy Save the Pan Am Worldport) As anyone who spends a few months watching a New York...
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Five Issues Threatening the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Sites
Wooden Church in Tarnavita, Romania (2012), one of the sites on the 2014 World Monuments Watch (photograph by Dan Cioclu/World Monuments Fund) Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund announced their 2014...
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The Challenges of Preserving Modernist Landscapes
Portland Open Space Sequence (photograph by Radcliffe Dacanay/Flickr user) While even the most coldly Brutalist buildings have found their proponents, the modernist landscapes that were built in plazas...
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Palisades Preservation Becomes a National Issue
View of the Palisades from the Cloisters (photograph via Flickr user Carolita Johnson) The preservation of a natural vista in New Jersey in the face of an intruding development is moving from a local...
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50 Years on, a World’s Fair Ruin Might Finally Find a Future
The New York State Pavilion (photograph by Thomas Angermann, via Flickr) The 1964 New York World’s Fair was meant to be an idealistic vision of the future propelled by technology and design, but 50...
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Demise of Landmark Hospitals Bodes Ill in Chicago
Prentice Women’s Hospital, prior to its demolition (photo by Jim Kuhn, via Wikimedia) Few cities can rival Chicago for architectural masterpieces, but the past year hasn’t been stellar for...
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