The New Victorians Category Archives: architecture

Category Archives: architecture

Anything having to do with buildings, structures, and man-made marvels.

Centennial Soiree at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden

This past Thursday evening August 12 was the Linnaean Libation League’s Centennial Soiree. The celebration was held for the Brooklyn Botanic Garden’s 100th birthday. We did not have a speaking role, but our fashions were included in this video clip on the Long Island Channel 12 news. Here are some vintage styled photographs from the [...]
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Retrofitting suburbia

Video via Ted.com – Ellen Dunham-Jones: Retrofitting suburbia
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Brooklyn House Tour Listing for Spring 2010

The 2010 Spring Brooklyn House Tour Listing is almost complete. We are excited to attend a few of these great events around Brooklyn this year. Will you be joining us? 30th Annual Fort Greene House Tour Sunday May 2, 2010 from 12:00pm – 5:00pm Tickets: $20 or $25 day of event Website and purchase tickets 26th Annual Brooklyn Heights Association [...]
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Robert Providence – Preservationist Extraordinaire

Robert Providence you are our hero! After Fight, a Brooklyn Brownstone’s Costly Rescue – NYT.
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I LEGO NY BOOK

Remember these LEGO photographs from February 2009 in the NYT City Blog? Well the Illustrator Christoph Niemann has made a book about his creative LEGO pieces.
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Edible Brooklyn

Amelia Coulter’s architecture cookies are featured in the latest issue of Edible Brooklyn. Wow, they look yummy.
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A Beautiful Reveal

These are some of the most smile-inducing before-and-after renovation photos we’ve seen in a while. It’s always scary to think what could happen when vinyl or other artificial siding is removed (in this case it was Permastone); you never know what you could find. This beautiful project in Clinton Hill puts our fears to rest, [...]
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Save These NYC Gems

Am NY has posted it’s fourth annual feature on “crumbling NYC gems that deserve a second chance.” Two buildings of note (which are surprisingly both designated NYC landmarks): The Coignet Stone Building, which sits in solitude on the corner of 3rd Street & 3rd Avenue, and was made a landmark in 2006. The building was  once [...]
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Architectural Park Slope (Snow Edition)

December 19th & 20th – New York got dumped with 10 inches of snow this weekend. We always love how the snow seems to cover up all signs of modernity in historic neighborhoods (cars, telephone polls, etc.), leaving just the historic architecture on display. Feeling this was too great a photo-op to miss, we layered [...]
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Brooklyn in the Snow

The first significant snowfall is heading up the Eastern Seaboard as we speak. We can’t wait to be snowed in! image by the Brooklyn Public Library – Brooklyn Collection on flickr Weather.com has issued a winter storm warning - “SNOWFALL ACCUMULATIONS OF 5 TO 10 INCHES WITH WIND GUSTS OF UP TO 35 MPH ARE POSSIBLE. THE GREATEST [...]
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