New Deal Architecture Faces Bulldozer

A mother and children in 1938 in Greenhills, Ohio, a planned community built by the government in the Great Depression.













Greenhills, shown in 1939, was championed by Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt as providing a healthy environment.

Mysterious Machu Picchu

A magnificent place, the lost city of the Incas. A slide show accompanies the article that appeared in the Wall Street Journal on 1 November 2008.

Chrysler Building

An interesting piece in this weekend's Wall Street Journal about the Chrysler Building. It really is a fascinating building: it can be called art, whereas most skyscrapers or simply other tall building, the Empire State Building included, are simply tall buildings. The only other building I can think of that has aesthetic beauty is the Woolworth Building.

The first picture is how the Chrysler looked in 1930 (notice the shadow on the lower left). The next image is a picture taken by Margaret Bourke-White in 1931.

Building Google-age libraries

More on libraries.

Borrowed Time: How do you build a public library in the age of Google?

By Witold Rybczynski - Posted Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2008, at 7:02 AM ET

Click here to read a slide-show essay about the architecture of libraries.

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