Cambridge


Sunday, May 6 - A Passion Revealed - Louis Vermond

Posted by markorton on May 6, 2007 in Cambridge, Year-In-Pictures 2007, people

Nancy and Louis visited us over this weekend. Besides the catch-up conversations and visits to various local spots, including the Peabody Essex Museum, Louis showed us his working replica short wave transmitter.

Riverside - “suburbs of Central Square”

Posted by markorton on March 11, 2007 in Cambridge, architecture

It is rare to find two substantive articles in the Boston Globe on a single day, but here we are. For some, who fled the neighborhood prematurely (even if for compelling personal reasons), this article will be a comeuppance. It is now several years since the first million $ condo was sold on Kinnaird St. [...]

Review of Gehry’s Stata Center at MIT

Posted by markorton on March 11, 2007 in Cambridge, architecture

This building has been source of interest here from its inception. Last fall we walked around and through it with our friends Linda and Eliot. Today’s article by our well-know local architecture critic takes a swing at answering the question of how well the building works as opposed to its now nearly iconic status as [...]