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Cairo, Egypt: Ancient Streets

Posted on July 28, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

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Tags: balcony, stone, street, t5

Barcelona, Spain: Streets at Night

Posted on July 27, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

Source: danflo

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Tags: balcony, cobblestone, night, street, t6, urban

Malaga, Spain: The Beauty of Pedestrian Scale

Posted on July 26, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

Source: FotosdeManuela

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Tags: arch, civic realm, lantern, people, sidewalk, t6

Kennebunkport, ME: Downtown Sugar Fix

Posted on July 25, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

Source: bill.seabrook

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Tags: downtown, retail, shake, sign, store, street, t4

Washington, DC: Speck’s Striking Flatiron Building

Posted on July 21, 2010 by wbharchitect in New Urban Architecture

See more on this house in the Washington Post and over at Apartment Therapy.
Source: Jeff Speck

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Tags: brick, cantilever, flatiron, modern, night, street, t4, urban

#007 – Libs, Mods, & Saints: An Interview with Jeff Speck

Posted on July 20, 2010 by wbharchitect in Podcast

In a recent Architect Magazine article, urban designer Jeff Speck prompted plenty of discussion when he offered a lighthearted synopsis of New Urbanism’s most vocal critics. ‘Libs, Mods, & Saints’, he calls them.
In the New Urban Architect Podcast episode #7, Speck expands on the ideas covered in the article and more.
Speck is best known for [...]

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Tags: architecture, design, libertarianism, modernism, new urbanism, style, urbanism

Birmingham, England: Porphyrios’s Brindleyplace Masterpiece

Posted on July 20, 2010 by wbharchitect in New Urban Architecture

Source: Wikipedia

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Tags: arch, brick, civic realm, classical, mixed use, stone, t5

New York, NY: Apartments in Greenwich Village

Posted on July 19, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

Source: moonman82

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Tags: bicycle, brick, residential, street, t6

New Orleans, LA: The French Quarter

Posted on July 18, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

Source: Jim.Semonik

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Tags: balcony, column, gallery, iron, retail, street, t5

Miami, FL: Vizcaya Museum

Posted on July 16, 2010 by wbharchitect in Traditional Architecture

Source: Fate, the Magnificent

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Tags: civic, classical, colonial, museum, spanish, stair