Covering Up a Brutal Past
An architectural style called Brutalism? Just what were they thinking? Without a trained eye, Brutalist buildings are aptly named. Hard concrete walls, minimal windows, harsh lines and a scarcity of…
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Community Input Seeks Good Design
When Chicago Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin visited Greensboro in 2007, he ended his discussion before an audience of over 100 Greensboro citizens with the following directive: “There’s an old saying:…
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Greensboro a Gate City Again?
Governor John Motley Morehead, whose home Blandwood is operated by Preservation Greensboro as a museum, would be pleased. North Carolina’s restored and historic railway stations, like ours here in Greensboro…
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Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
Historic districts are not museums. Buildings rise and (tragically) fall, streets get paved and restriped, sidewalks are refitted to correct cracks, and trees are removed when they die. Historic preservation,…
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What is Greensboro’s DNA?
Envision the adobe walls of Santa Fe, or the red brick and copper-clad townhouses of Boston, or the streamlined pastel hotels of Miami Beach. Each place features signature qualities that…
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Can Downtown Greensboro Be Made Better?
Last week, the question was asked “What buildings in GSO really damage the urban environment to the point that they should be replaced?” The question was sparked by an article in the…
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Sign from Above
All too often, visitors and citizens wonder where exactly Greensboro’s historic neighborhoods are located. There are, after all, no lines on the ground to delineate the boundaries of the community.…
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Is Everything Old, New Again? Historic Preservation Responds to Fresh Challenges
Everything old may very well be new again if this summer’s trends in skyrocketing gas prices forcing us to rethink the design of Greensboro’s neighborhoods. For the first time in…
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Town and Gown: Re-imagining Greensboro’s Smart New Future
For most of the twentieth-century, Greensboro was one of the region’s economic power-centers, fueled by three highly profitable manufacturing sectors: textiles, tobacco, and machinery. Corporate names such as Cone Mills,…
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Future-Perfect-in-Past-Tense: Reclaiming the Historic Warnersville Neighborhood
Future-Perfect-in-Past-Tense grammatical terms were once the topic of discussion in the classrooms of Warnersville’s J. C. Price Elementary School, but today, the term describes a new direction planned by residents…
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CityBuilding 101: How to make a Storefront
In Greensboro’s flight to the suburbs over the past 50 years, it sometimes seems as though the Gate City has lost its ability to build a great storefront. Great street-side…
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My Two Cents: Perspectives of Greensboro from Chicago
Blair Kamin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic for the Chicago Tribune, made many key points last month during his visit to the Gate City to challenge our thinking of architecture…
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