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Playing with Art: The Isamu Noguchi Playscape
The Isamu Noguchi Playscape: Is it a park? Is it art? Let’s call it visionary playground design. Don’t touch the art -- play with it! Kids can definitely get their hands and feet all over this...
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It Takes a Village: How Boise, Idaho is Celebrating its Sesquicentennial
The BOISE 150 SESQUI-PARTY on July 7, 2013 commemorated the 150th anniversary of the first platting of Boise. An estimated 16,000-20,000 people attended and were treated to performances at four...
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A Bittersweet Future for Hawaii’s Threatened Sugar Mills
Sugar cane fields stretch across the Hawaiian landscape. “Sugar formed the landscape in Hawaii,” Harrison Yamamoto says. “From the mountains to the beach, it was all fields.” Hawaii’s history -- and...
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Houston Astrodome: Iconic Stadium Awaits “New Dome Experience”
The Houston Astrodome: The world’s first dome stadium brought the future for professional sports to Houston, Texas. The Houston Astrodome opened in 1965 with an exhibition game: Houston Astros versus...
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Marcus Books: Oldest African-American Bookstore Fights to Stay Open
Marcus Books: San Franciscans hope landmark designation and city resolution will save the oldest African-American-owned bookstore in the country. “The African-American experience has always been...
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Not Stopping That United Sound: Highway Threatens Detroit’s Motown Studio
The United Sound System Recording Studios and its long music history may be leveled or be forced to relocate to make way for the I-94. United Sound System: it's where Detroit got its Motown sound. One...
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New Farnsworth House Director Maurice Drue Parrish on Experiencing Modernism
Farnsworth House in Plano, Illinois Maurice Drue Parrish recently joined as the new director of the Farnsworth House, a National Trust site in Plano, Illinois -- and one of the most iconic expressions...
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Young Preservationist Graham Coreil-Allen on Art, Place, and the “Urban Sublime”
Through his project New Public Sites, Coreil-Allen invites participants to experience what he calls the urban sublime: "the aesthetic and profound sense of place in an urban space otherwise so often...
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Young Preservationist Daniel Ronan on Why Preservation is the “Triple Bottom...
Daniel Ronan graduated from the University of Oregon Planning and Public Policy program and is now based in Chicago. As a young person in preservation, Daniel Ronan has heard laments of how the field...
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Young Preservationist Sara Delgadillo on Why Preservation Needs Diversity
Preservationists from different backgrounds gather for the National Preservation Conference Diversity Scholars program. (L. to r.: Rosalind Sagara, Sara Delgadillo, Manuel Huerta.) Preservation can...
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