A lot of my friends know that spaces in the process of disappearing excite me. I get random calls from people as they drive by a particularly wonderful abandoned mansion or mystical disaster site. In a sense, my friends are registering a report with someone who cares.
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The BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir ascends in Himalayan splendor and South-Asian finery 70 feet above the banality of a five-lane stretch of Lawrenceville Highway, claiming its place as Lilburn, Georgia’s newest, most sophisticated landmark. The Mandir, a traditional Hindu place of worship, is only the sixth of its kind constructed outside India to serve...
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The Octane coffee shop on Marietta Street used to be a run-of-the-mill Standard Oil filling and service station (at least back in 1954, the year Burger King was founded—see photo). Today it is home to a trendy coffee shop that offers a variety of palatably divergent types of coffee French-pressed to order. Similarly, Cottage...
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Modernist buildings in Atlanta have a proclivity towards neglect and disappearance. At a moment of political unrest over a famous Brutalist building, the Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) hosts a beautifully designed traveling show about renowned architect Marcel Breuer, whose last great building happens to be our Atlanta Central Library. The museum reaches out...
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Look out for another packed weekend for visual arts around the city. Here’s a preview of what’s coming.
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