Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts
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42°22' 25" N, 71°6' 50" W42.373716 -71.113879
Harvard's
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts , "the only building on the North American continent designed by the famous French architect Le Corbusier."
The "No Parking" sign -- one of so, so many -- was in my way. I chose to include it because signs like this are an integral part of everyone's Harvard and Cambridge experience. (Unless, of course, you arrive and depart by subway, as I usually do.)
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With fuel prices, not mention parking, I have
taken the train to Bostom lately. I even
have a Senior card and I am thinking of
taking the train to Boston this week and the
T over to Arlington station so I can walk to
Calumet Photo on Bent St. in Cambridge..
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Oops, What do I know, I meant Lechmere!
Posted 3 months ago.
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Arlington Street station for a walk to East
Cambridge? You must want to see the Public
Garden and Charles Street real bad!
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Lechmere station makes more sense. Not a
scenic walk down First Street but definitely
shorter. Or just stay on the Red Line from
South Station. Get off at the new (and
photogenic) Charles Street / MGH station and
walk over the Longfellow Bridge to Cambridge.
A few views there, plus when you connect with
First Street on the other side you'll pass a
lot of good ethnic restaurants. (I like the
Helmand -- Afghan food -- at 143.)
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Thanks! Sounds like a plan!
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I passed on a picture with a similar sign the
other day and now I wish that I hadn't. (I
also saw this in Bostonist.)
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Ah, the misunderstood artist! Again!Bostonist saw it as a shot of a tilted sign and I
guess you do, too. Maybe most people do. But
I saw it as contrasting the sign's
rectilinear shape against the sweeping curve
of the building and it's color against the
drabness of the concrete, and as a kind of
mundane "beauty mark" against le Corbusier's classic work. All
that kind of malarkey. (Maybe I'd better
stick to "tilted sign.")
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