2024.03.07
Pennepack Baptist Church 1774, rebuilt 1805 Krewstown Road Philadelphia
Jefferson Torresdale Emergency Trauma Center San Michel St. Michael's Shrine of the True Cross Knights Road Philadelphia
2006.03.07
Iconography, or the problem of representation
To talk about a building's spatiality and experientiality via looking at pictures is a poor and very disappointing way to critique architecture.
Plus, how 'powerful' does an emergency services building (fire station) really have to be?
My local fire station is a nice and modest civic building, although it still saddens me that the tower was taken down a number of years ago--towers for the drying of hoses are now obsolete. The Rite-Aid store across the street is not as attractive but somewhat visually more powerful.
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