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The home of Tony and Regina Banks in the Annesdale Snowden Historic District features a mix of design influences that add up to an elegant whole. The home, a 1911 English Tudor with Japanese influences, is one of four open for touring from 1 to 5 p.m. Sunday during a home tour sponsored by the Annesdale Snowden Neighborhood Association. The homes are representative of this classic turn-of-the-century Midtown neighborhood.
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MIAMI BEACH, Fla. -- Daily pursuits of comfort, pleasure and self- indulgence along South Beach's trendy Ocean Drive belie that this was once the frontline of an urban war zone. The battle of South Beach is now a fading memory. The victors have collected their public tributes, and greater greed has aligned once-opposing ideological poles. A cease-fire has been in effect for more than two decades, and the accompanying peace dividend is a now highly prized collection of 800 buildings showcasing the city's rich Art Deco architectural heritage.
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Mark Granlund is always on the lookout for people who will help "fight the good fight," he said. As executive director of the Architectural Heritage Center, Granlund is passionate about historic preservation. He searches for new recruits - those who can make donations to the Heritage Center and support its mission to save historically significant buildings.
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Cynthia Schwartz went to a mountaintop cafe on the other side of the world and found a piece of Buffalo. As she looked through her camera lens on the lights that once illuminated the Central Terminal, she was stunned by the size and beauty of the frosted panes in silvery frames.
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The bus tours of hidden architectural treasures in Redlands are offered April 15 and 22 as part of the Redlands Festival Series REDLANDS - As part of the Redlands Festival Series, the Heritage Auxiliary of Assistance League of Redlands will present Redlands Architectural Heritage Tours on two Saturdays, April 15 and 22.
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ALICE Ball was a single woman in the early 1950s, with a beautiful parcel of land in bucolic New Canaan and a vision. She wanted to build a house on the property where she could live alone - - something simple, similar to the modern, International-style architecture that had become popular during the previous few years. So, she turned to her friend, Philip Johnson. Johnson was the diminutive king of modern architecture. His "Glass House" in New Canaan opened in 1949 and caused a sensation. The simple, elegant glass box redefined what a house could be. It could be art, as significant as any Rothko or Pollock painting, but with a place to make dinner and rest your head. Johnson also would go on to change New Haven's skyline, with the Kline Biology Tower on Prospect Street.
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To enjoy something of a living history museum to Oklahoma's architectural heritage, take a walking tour of ConocoPhillips' downtown Bartlesville campus. There you'll be blessed with turn-of-the-century brick and mortar, Roaring '20s opulence, blockish post-World War II simplicity, sculpturelike modernity, soaring skyscrapers and shiny window walls. And that's just what Phillips Petroleum built or assimilated, all pretty much within a three-block radius.
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The historic Academy Theater in the Montavilla neighborhood will be donating 15 percent of its concessions sales on March 11 to support the Architectural Heritage Center. Originally opened in 1948, the theater was closed in the 1970s. A full-scale renovation was performed on the theater, and it was reopened in 2005 with a restored rounded lobby, new neon signage and three screens with stadium seating.
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Every Saturday at 1 1 a.m. architecture lovers (or at least those who appreciate a freebie) meet at Rothschild Blvd. at the corner of Shadal Street in the heart of Tel Aviv's financial district for a gratis tour of the "White City" - the agglomeration of 3,700 surviving BAUHAUS STYLE, TEL AVIV - Israeli pedestrians (at right) view a refurbished building on Gordon Street in Tel Aviv, in the Bauhaus style of architecture. Tel Aviv is home to the largest collection of buildings in the world. Thanks in good part to UNESCO's imprimatur, today there is a new appreciation for the preservation of Tel Aviv's Bauhaus architectural heritage.
