They didn't even take advantage of the Beaux Arts building's great bones, blocking out the skylights.
Soon, critics were again overjoyed with the newest incarnation of the Beaux Arts Trio.
And so, all of a sudden, I had the Beaux Arts Trio back again.
The landlord removed Beaux Arts ornaments from the exterior a number of years ago.
The central library is a 1912 Beaux Arts stunner by Cass Gilbert, celebrated architect of New York's Woolworth Building.
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With Guillet gone, Pressler guided the Beaux Arts Trio into its next era.
Which is probably why former San Francisco Mayor Joe Alioto (1968-1976) once called this Beaux Arts estate his home.
In Paris (through the end of the year) the Ecole des Beaux Arts is showing a group of young Indian artists.
But according to officials there the most serious problem is the building, an 1897 Beaux Arts structure on Seventeenth Street N.
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More important in terms of actual building, the glass boxes were economical compared to Beaux Arts marble, a crucial consideration in the period of postwar inflation.
To counter the onslaught of contemporary hotel stylings, the old school Beaux Arts Ritz-Carlton recently modernized its famous lobby bar and dining room to mixed reviews.
That means the architecture followed from engineering considerations such as the tensile strength of steel rather than, as in the case of Beaux Arts, originating from a sculptural ideal.
They made brilliant use of a favorite Beaux Arts theme a processional path from the Fifth Avenue entrance to the climactic experience of the grand reading room at the top.
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Other modern citizens of the world crowd into Three on the Bund, a 1916 Beaux Arts building that has been gutted and redesigned into a glamorously minimalist space by Michael Graves.
Deco buildings, many of them high-rises that towered above what was then, as now, China's most important commercial and financial center, quickly overshadowed more ornate Beaux Arts monuments to colonial power.
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Two decades after ambitious plans were unveiled to improve Penn Station while expanding it into the massive Beaux Arts post office building across the street, there are few visible signs of change.
Grab a bagel with cream cheese and lox and head east to the intriguing, esoteric American Museum of Natural History, which is housed in a massive 19th-century Beaux Arts building off Central Park West.
"This is a homecoming for us, " explains one of the company's general managers, Paul Tchen, standing in the magnificent grand foyer, where locals come for tea dances overseen by Beaux Arts friezes along the walls.
From 1915 until the 1990s, the Beaux Arts building even contained a special place apart from the hustle and bustle of the main floor that was designated for loved ones in the throes of an extra special hello.
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The early influence of French Art Deco aesthetics can be seen in the stained-glass ceiling of the ballroom in the otherwise largely Beaux Arts-style old French Sports Club -- now the Okura Garden Hotel -- as well as in some other interior flourishes.
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And though the city's monumental examples of the beaux arts and art deco movements are well documented in civic buildings dressed up in a mixed bag of Classical Roman and Greek elements, the city actually received its greatest modern architectural contribution in the years after WWII, when Ludwig Mies van der Rohe pioneered the new "International Style".
To experience the best leg of Via's cross-country service, take the Snow Train, which runs from Vancouver's grand beaux arts railroad station through a series of stunning snowbound mountain ranges to the hamlet of Jasper in the middle of 4, 200-square-mile Jasper National Park (home to some of the world's best, least-crowded skiing, at Marmot Basin).
The 23, 000 square foot store will be pulling into the Beaux-Arts style train station with a little baggage, however.
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In Sullivan's day, American architectural studies were dominated by the French Beaux-Arts tradition, and particularly by Viollet-le-Duc's romantic rationalism.
Eisenstein was fascinated by Mexico and by its complex layering of cultural strata: pre-Columbian civilisations, Spanish baroque, 19th-century Beaux-Arts and revolutionary modernism.
In 1902, Flagler completed "Whitehall, " his Beaux-Arts mansion, which followed the opening of his resort, the Palm Beach Inn renamed the Breakers in 1901.
The unusual condo apartment combines portions of the century-old Beaux-Arts hotel with a new loft-like rooftop construction with skylights and an angled wall of glass.
The W is also centrally located next to the exquisite Beaux-Arts-style Opera Palais Garnier (ask for a room with a view of it) and easy access to several Metro lines.
The gilded NoMad, drawing design inspiration from its 1905 Beaux-Arts structure and designer Jacques Garcia's former Paris apartment, boasts a Parisian-style restaurant flowing into the lobby of the hotel and furniture modeled after French originals.
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