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What deserves to be preserved

“Donald Judd’s SoHo Loft Opens After $23 Million Makeover” on the preservation complexities faced by Architecture Research Office in restoring the loft building and artwork Judd created, Bloomberg 6/1/2012

Wrecking Ball, $67 Million Bill Hang Over Leaky Landmark” on Orange County, NY, Government Center, by Paul Rudolph, Bloomberg 3/19/2012

“Four Seasons, Power Lunch Palace, Gets 50th Birthday Remodeling” on legendary restaurant by Philip Johnson, with new work by Belmont Freeman Architects, Bloomberg, 6/10/2009

“Landmark Churches Rot With Deals Drying Up” * on failure of private partnership to save landmark West Park Presbyterian Church, Bloomberg, 3/17/2009

“Bureaucrats Start Bulldozing Landmark New Orleans Housing” on demolition of well-built housing on vast tracts unlikely to be rebuilt, Bloomberg, 12/18/2007

“U. S. to Destroy New Orleans Housing While Poor Sleep in Tents” HUD plans to replace landmark-quality public housing with far fewer units in midst of post-hurricane housing crisis, Bloomberg, 12/6/2007

“Columbus Circle Museum Loss is No Tragedy for Architecture” on preservation obsession with the former Huntington Hartford Museum, Edward Durrell Stone, original architect, Bloomberg, 2/28/2005

“Fierce opposition to work at Yale’s Berkeley College, again questions how contemporary expression fits historic form” on restoration methods and ethics, Architectural Record, 2/2000

“Altering an Icon” critical evaluation of proposal to convert famed PSFS Building to a hotel, The Philadelphia Inquirer, November 17, 1998

“City in Limbo” on Philadelphia as example of economic value of historic preservation, Architectural Record, 1/1993

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About James Russell

James S. Russell is an architecture critic, journalist, teacher and consultant. He's the author of the book, The Agile City, and has written for publications like Architectural Record, Bloomberg News, NY Times and more. Continue reading

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