by Kyle Pierson | Aug 10, 2020 | Travel
I grew up in Buffalo and I didn’t know until I read this post from architectural writer Alexandra Lange that I grew up in an architectural mecca. Lange’s article drove me to rediscover my home town. As a native Buffalonian and garden lover, I was surprised...
by Kyle Pierson | Mar 21, 2016 | Front Page
What would Wall Street be without its massive charging bull? Probably just another New York City street among the concrete canyon of gray skyscrapers. Michael Graves’s postmodernist Portland building stands out as a strong recognizable symbol in that city...
by Kyle Pierson | Jan 27, 2016 | Art
Last summer while I was traveling in the Hudson Valley, NY and poking around in antique shops, I stumbled upon this 1986 tear-out book of postcards by Michael Langenstein. The publisher’s (Dover) note explains that the postcards combine world famous...
by Kyle Pierson | Oct 25, 2015 | Travel
I was thrilled to see this post from The architectural writer Alexandra Lange who visited Buffalo, NY. this summer. Lange’s article gave architectural tourists like me a good reason to rediscover my home town. The city has more than Chicken Wings going for it....
by Kyle Pierson | Sep 26, 2015 | Flordia
Two years ago Santiago Calatrava’s white feather-patterned arches stopped traffic on I-4, just outside of Tampa, FL– even if it was just for a nanosecond. The arches were the first roadside view of the newest Florida institute of higher...