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KILLER MONUMENTS OF VALPARAISO Halfway down its long, jagged Pacific coast, Chile's second city has seen better days. A century ago, Valparaiso was the country's main port, but it has since been abandoned by the wealthy classes and the industrialists and is rough, rusty, and grimy. The city's hodgepodge of Victorian follies, French neoclassical palaces, and modest wooden chalets clinging precariously to the hillsides is literally falling apart.
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WILLIAM TURNBULL - BUILDINGS IN THE LANDSCAPE We ended up on the rugged north coast of California, on an overgrazed sheep meadow, hard by the surf breaking at the foot of the rocky cliffs. The ground was not flat but shaped into low mounds and swells, edged on one side by the ribbon of Highway 1 and indented on the other by ocean forces seeking weak points in the rock.
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PRESERVING WRIGHT'S WESTCOTT HOUSE In 1907, a house began to take shape on High Street in Springfield, Ohio. Local residents referred to it as a monstrosity. Some thought it to be such a bizarre design for a residential neighborhood, it was mistaken for a sanitarium or hospital.
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More Building Culture Architects Go to the Dogs in Property Market — Reuters at Yahoo News, 2001.0522Old Mint could get a new life — San Francisco Chronicle, 2001.0522 Brutalist beauty must be preserved — The Ottawa Citizen, 2001.0522 Atrium, windows move hospital out of Dark Ages — The Toronto Star, 2001.0521 Churches try to retrieve grand trappings of past — Baltimore Sun, 2001.0521 Museums' Designs On Architecture — Hartford Courant, 2001.0520 Mayan City Is Older Than Believed — AP at Architecture Guide, 2001.0518 A Century of Modern — Moscow Times`, 2001.0518 A Wright House for Sale and a Threat of Demolition — New York TImes, 2001.0517 (registration required) Rot Advances on Historic Home — Washington Post, 2001.0516 City Lights, a Siren's Song for Birds, Are Dimmed — New York TImes, 2001.0515 (registration required)
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