David Garrard Lowe [7 titles]

1. The Houses of Worship That Hallow New York
   A tour through three centuries of history and architecture
   Winter 2007
2. The Plaza’s First Century—and Its Second?
   The matchless grandeur of Gotham’s great landmark
   Spring 2006
3. Now They’re Deconstructing the Columbia Campus
   In his brilliantly quirky polemic, Kindergarten Chats, the great Chicago architect Louis Sullivan warned, 'Our architecture reflects us, as truly as a mirror.'
   Autumn 1997
4. The Man Who Gilded the Gilded Age
   New York had seen nothing like it. As darkness fell on Monday, March 26, 1883, a crowd gathered outside the shimmering new mansion at the northwest corner of Fifth Avenue and 52nd Street.
   Autumn 1996
5. Urban Lessons From Paris
   By eight in the morning, the August sun is warming the Place Saint-Germain-des-Pres, brushing with gold the facade of the eleventh-century Romanesque church that gives the square its name, brightening the trees that surround the Picasso sculpture honoring the poet Apollinaire, turning up, as it were, the house lights for those fortunate enough to be having their café au lait on the terrace of the Deux Magots.
   Winter 1996
6. The Triumph of Rockefeller Center
   By now the tale of how the Mitsubishi Estate Company forced Rockefeller Center to file for bankruptcy has been more than twice told.
   Summer 1995
7. A Grander Grand Central
   Grand Central Terminal! What images those words conjure up: Gloria Swanson surrounded by photographers as she boards the sleekly streamlined 'Twentieth Century Limited'; General Eisenhower emerging from the 'North Shore Limited' to confide his political plans to a bouquet of microphones; the Pullmans of the 'Commodore Vanderbilt' made up to carry Winston Churchill or F. Scott Fitzgerald into the heartland.
   Spring 1995