Forum: Glory of Concrete Confirmed in New Haven Structures
New Haven Register › September 22, 2011
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NEW Haven, a small New England city, has an outsized reputation for buildings of import. Sometimes this import is clearly chest thumping (the departed Coliseum) or historic (Trinity Church on the Green, built in 1815 by architect Ithiel Town and the first Gothic Revival building in America.) Most often, for aesthetes and architecture buffs, the city embodies the Modernist mentality of mid- 20th century America. Great architects, now called "starchitects," used it as a canvas for their vision -- often with little regard for context, or even with contempt for it.
New Haven has another interesting claim, as one of the great galleries in America for concrete in construction.See the full content of this document
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Forum: Glory of Concrete Confirmed in New Haven Structures
That tradition is being fulfilled in the new version of Interstate 95's Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, where 12 oval towers will collect loads from cables. The towers are being built now, employi...
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