Tag: Historic Buildings and Sites
London’s Trellick Tower and a Development Debate
LONDON — When Barbara Heksel and her family moved into Trellick Tower in 1981, their friends thought they…
Dimes Square Gets the Hotel It Deserves
“I won’t tell you the molding story, but there’s a lot to the molding,” Andrew Rifkin said, standing…
Plotting the Future of the Most Storied Studio in Jazz
The building’s presence on the state and national registers does not protect it from being altered or even…
Big Ben Bongs Will Soon Ring Out Again Across London
LONDON — For five years, the most famous clock tower in Britain was hidden behind an ugly fortress…
The Wild History of the Real ‘Only Murders’ Building
One Friday evening in early June, Debbie Marx, a Latin teacher and longtime Belnord resident, led a visitor…
In Athens Creativity in Art, Food and More Rises
Here’s a surprise: While Athenians were locked down because of the pandemic, a flurry of creative and entrepreneurial…
Egypt’s Iconic Nile Houseboats Face Demolition
CAIRO — Rowing up to the cheerful turquoise houseboat on the Nile, a fisherman saluted the white-haired woman…
Documenting India’s Distinctive Birdhouses
Some years ago, while exploring Bhuj, a small city in Gujarat, India’s westernmost state, I stumbled upon a…
‘Downton Shabby’: A Commoner Takes on an English Castle
People who search genealogy websites often find birth and marriage records, newspaper clippings, faded photographs or maybe a…
At the U.S. Open, Saving the House That Built Golf
BROOKLINE, Mass. — The small, 19th-century home with the golf course view is hardly noticeable to the hundreds…
A Restored Painting Recalls the Colosseum’s Christian Past
ROME — For most people, the Colosseum conjures up scenes of bloody gladiatorial combat, or doomed encounters between…
Tourist Damages Rome’s Spanish Steps by Pushing a Scooter Down Them
In the past 300 years, the Spanish Steps in Rome have been descended by artists, poets and lovers.…