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Tower Inferno
Arguing the aesthetics of wind turbines
Jean Vissering laughs when asked to describe a really beautiful wind turbine. What loyal Vermonter could take pleasure in the prospect of festooning a pristine…
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Home + Design
Best of the Rest
Ada Louise Huxtable, the dean of American architecture critics, declared six years ago that our nation was in "near-total architectural retreat." In her book The…
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Home + Design
Building Blocks
Jacques Herzog and Pierre de Meuron do big boxes. The Swiss design duo won the 2001 Pritzker Prize, making them the architectural equivalent of Nobel…
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Home + Design
Midd-Sized Model?
Vermont's most design-conscious sampus hits a wall
Middlebury College professor Glenn Andres still recalls the day he picked up Robert Venturi at the airport and drove him to campus for a visit.…
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Home + Design
Best-Laid Plans? Champlain College builds a case for urban architecture
The word “entrepreneurial,” when used in association with architecture, is usually a harbinger of disaster. Those who fancy themselves entrepreneurs tend to build expecting…
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Arts + Life
Scene from Above
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Above and Beyond tells a big story about development — and the evolution of architecture —…
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Home + Design
That's Sprawl, Folks: Robert Burley's Wright idea couldn't save Maple Tree Place
You would have thought Maple Tree Place had everything going for it. Robert Burley was the chief designer of the Taft Corners project intended…
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Home + Design
Design of the Times: Are we building a better Vermont? A look at four concrete examples
Well, at least this year we know which millennium we’re in. Whether you thought it began in 2000 or 2001, it hit each of…
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