Christine Cipriani
@christinecipriani.bsky.social
Architecture and history / Writing biography of Ada Louise Huxtable (Norton) / Coauthor, CAPE COD MODERN (Metropolis)
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NYE countdown in Chicago is now officially a thing. 💁♀️ Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is hosting its first-ever Central Time Zone countdown from the city.
https://bit.ly/4pnBR5r
📸: Patrick L. Pyszka
#Chicago #architecture #NYE #2026 #allfortheloveofchicago
https://bit.ly/4pnBR5r
📸: Patrick L. Pyszka
#Chicago #architecture #NYE #2026 #allfortheloveofchicago
November 23, 2025 at 11:18 PM
NYE countdown in Chicago is now officially a thing. 💁♀️ Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve is hosting its first-ever Central Time Zone countdown from the city.
https://bit.ly/4pnBR5r
📸: Patrick L. Pyszka
#Chicago #architecture #NYE #2026 #allfortheloveofchicago
https://bit.ly/4pnBR5r
📸: Patrick L. Pyszka
#Chicago #architecture #NYE #2026 #allfortheloveofchicago
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Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
November 22, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Why do I love living in Boston? Yo-Yo Ma playing the Bach cello suites before bringing Mayor Wu out to duet for an encore, that’s why.
Here is the Stahl family's FB message regarding the sale of Case Study House 22. Possibly my all-time #1 architecture tour... Carlotta and Mark Stahl were hosting and it was absolutely magical. No one wanted to leave. Won't be the same under new owners, esp. given likely price tag, but 🤞
November 21, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Here is the Stahl family's FB message regarding the sale of Case Study House 22. Possibly my all-time #1 architecture tour... Carlotta and Mark Stahl were hosting and it was absolutely magical. No one wanted to leave. Won't be the same under new owners, esp. given likely price tag, but 🤞
Nice Globe feature on Peter McMahon's restoration of the Breuer House in Wellfleet
Marcel Breuer’s modernist Wellfleet summer cottage was brought back to life and opened to the public - The Boston Globe
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust purchased architect Marcel Breuer’s decaying 1949 summer home and restored it to its former glory — and you can sleep there.
www.bostonglobe.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Nice Globe feature on Peter McMahon's restoration of the Breuer House in Wellfleet
World-class trolling (Trump plans to paint Eisenhower Building white)
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/pres...
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/pres...
November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
World-class trolling (Trump plans to paint Eisenhower Building white)
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/pres...
www.archpaper.com/2025/11/pres...
❤️ “An overt reference to New York City's skyline, the ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set represents the 1930s fascination with all things modern and urban."
“Manhattan” Cocktail, designed by Norman Bel Geddes, 1934–35; produced c. 1939-41 (The Art Institute of Chicago)
November 14, 2025 at 2:15 AM
❤️ “An overt reference to New York City's skyline, the ‘Manhattan’ cocktail set represents the 1930s fascination with all things modern and urban."
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Posting dentils
November 14, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Posting dentils
Love this piece about second-tier classics going viral and emerging from obscurity -- seems like biggish news. By @john-self.bsky.social
‘It’s not just a book, it’s a window to my soul’: why we’re in love with literary angst
Why did an obscure Dostoevsky novella sell 100,000 copies in the UK last year? And why are TikTokers raving about a 1943 Turkish novel? The way young people are discovering books is changing – and the...
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Love this piece about second-tier classics going viral and emerging from obscurity -- seems like biggish news. By @john-self.bsky.social
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I need someone to tell me that this is not real
That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino
That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino
November 6, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I need someone to tell me that this is not real
That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino
That the most important building in America has not been turned into a sleazy 80s AC casino
Trump has fired the entire Commission of Fine Arts, and also -- there's a rendering --
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-...
October 29, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Trump has fired the entire Commission of Fine Arts, and also -- there's a rendering --
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-...
www.thedailybeast.com/trump-fires-...
Happy news. This series is such a monument.
The sixth and final installment in Robert A.M. Stern's magisterial New York series is out this week, so of course "New York 2020: Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century" is Book of the Week in A Weekly Dose of Architecture Books: archidose.substack.com/p/20-years-o...
20 Years of NYC Architecture Across 1500 Pages
Architecture Books – Week 44/2025
archidose.substack.com
October 27, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Happy news. This series is such a monument.
The private White House Historical Association has a statement on the East Wing that reads like a hostage video. They have (ahem) photographed the rooms for posterity, and "historic artifacts from the East Wing have been preserved and stored." How many...? www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/p...
White House Historical Association Statement on October 22, 2025
Since 1961, the mission of the White House Historical Association has been to document and share the history of the White House while providing private, non-taxpayer funding to preserve and enhance...
www.whitehousehistory.org
October 25, 2025 at 8:40 PM
The private White House Historical Association has a statement on the East Wing that reads like a hostage video. They have (ahem) photographed the rooms for posterity, and "historic artifacts from the East Wing have been preserved and stored." How many...? www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/p...
These are great images.
Do we know if they saved the paintings? So many questions.
Do we know if they saved the paintings? So many questions.
Astonishingly sad.
360 tour of the East Wing of the White House
View it now before it’s wiped.
Just so achingly sad
East Wing Entrance, Washington D.C., United States artsandculture.google.com/streetview/e...
360 tour of the East Wing of the White House
View it now before it’s wiped.
Just so achingly sad
East Wing Entrance, Washington D.C., United States artsandculture.google.com/streetview/e...
East Wing Entrance, Washington D.C., United States — Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.
artsandculture.google.com
October 25, 2025 at 6:19 PM
These are great images.
Do we know if they saved the paintings? So many questions.
Do we know if they saved the paintings? So many questions.
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Oct 24, 1919: The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium in #DTLA. timelines.latimes.com/los-angeles-... #performingarts
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
October 24, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Oct 24, 1919: The Los Angeles Philharmonic performed its first concert at the Trinity Auditorium in #DTLA. timelines.latimes.com/los-angeles-... #performingarts
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
It was great to see the #LAPhil archives on display at the #ArchivesBazaar last Saturday!
I didn't even know this existed -- too late --
The pergola designed by renowned Chinese-American architect I. M. Pei (1917-2019) is another casualty of Trump's destruction of the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden.
Trump's project is sweeping-away not just representations of women, but of Asian-Americans too.
Trump's project is sweeping-away not just representations of women, but of Asian-Americans too.
October 24, 2025 at 10:58 PM
I didn't even know this existed -- too late --
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Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
October 23, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Picture of the East Wing demolition of the White House taken on my flight out of DCA.
OK, this is good and brightened my day. By illustrator Sean Suchara
October 22, 2025 at 12:40 AM
OK, this is good and brightened my day. By illustrator Sean Suchara
The thing is: It's probably NOT going to be torn down after Trump. Demolition will be seen as wasteful and histrionic. It's probably permanent.
It will dwarf the actual White House and be paid for by "Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, NextEra Energy," and so on.
New renderings show more details of White House ballroom under construction
The Trump administration announced in July that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom with a seated capacity for 650 people will be constructed in the White House's East Wing.
www.cbsnews.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:17 PM
The thing is: It's probably NOT going to be torn down after Trump. Demolition will be seen as wasteful and histrionic. It's probably permanent.
It's like Bonwit Teller but worse. I wish the dumpster fire of news wasn't crowding out this stuff.
White House begins demolishing East Wing facade to build Trump’s ballroom
The president had claimed construction of the $250 million ballroom wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing White House structure.
wapo.st
October 20, 2025 at 8:47 PM
It's like Bonwit Teller but worse. I wish the dumpster fire of news wasn't crowding out this stuff.
This is so cool --
Sat @ 10am: The 20th Annual Los Angeles Archives Bazaar will take place at Cal State LA (in the Golden Eagle Ballroom). More info: laassubject.org/archives-baz... #ArchivesSky #ArchivesMonth
Sharing a few photos from last year as the #ArchivesBazaar is one of my favorite annual #LAhistory events:
Sharing a few photos from last year as the #ArchivesBazaar is one of my favorite annual #LAhistory events:
October 16, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is so cool --
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Las Vegas McCarran (opened 1963), by Welton Becket and Associates, and John Replogle. 📷 Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection via UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives. #airportarchitecture
www.instagram.com/p/CW50_3oFWbo/
www.instagram.com/p/CW50_3oFWbo/
September 30, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Las Vegas McCarran (opened 1963), by Welton Becket and Associates, and John Replogle. 📷 Erle A. Taylor Photograph Collection via UNLV University Libraries Special Collections & Archives. #airportarchitecture
www.instagram.com/p/CW50_3oFWbo/
www.instagram.com/p/CW50_3oFWbo/
It will dwarf the actual White House and be paid for by "Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, NextEra Energy," and so on.
New renderings show more details of White House ballroom under construction
The Trump administration announced in July that a 90,000-square-foot ballroom with a seated capacity for 650 people will be constructed in the White House's East Wing.
www.cbsnews.com
September 25, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It will dwarf the actual White House and be paid for by "Google, R.J. Reynolds, Booz Allen Hamilton, Lockheed Martin, Palantir, NextEra Energy," and so on.
What a great idea! --
Is there some place you’d like to revisit that no longer exists? The Disappointed Tourist by Ellen Harvey opens 9/29 at the CAC. This exhibition features art of lost spaces & the stories of why they mattered.
https://bit.ly/41XcKNH
#allfortheloveofchicago #chicago #architecture #lostchicago
https://bit.ly/41XcKNH
#allfortheloveofchicago #chicago #architecture #lostchicago
September 17, 2025 at 8:17 PM
What a great idea! --
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Forest Park, Illinois. I kind of like it even though I don't know what it is.
September 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Forest Park, Illinois. I kind of like it even though I don't know what it is.
Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French), Le petit atelier, 1850
September 14, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Ary Scheffer (Dutch-French), Le petit atelier, 1850