Architecture, Coffee, & Ink

Hello and welcome back dear listeners! On today’s episode, I am excited to start back up with a design that manages to tick-off all the boxes of a good story. It’s got murder, revenge, designs, dungeons, poisonous plants, and more. In this episode on Alnwick Castle and Gardens, in Northumberland, United Kingdom. We are going to deep dive into this site and history, talking about the castle itself as well as the Gardens. Covering topics such as the poison garden, how the family connects to the gunpowder plot, and more. Information about the castle and gardens can be found at:       

https://www.alnwickgarden.com/

The blog is located at architecturecoffeeandink.com which also has the complete link of all my sources, previous episodes, and old blog posts. You can email me at [email protected], or head over to the Insta, @architecturecoffeeandink,as well as the TikTok, @architecturecoffeeandink. Architecture, Coffee, & Ink is a Hollywood C. Studios, LLC Production.

On this episode, we talk about the oldest National Park in the World, Bogd Khan Uul National Park, located just outside of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. We start this episode off with discussing the difference between forest reserves and national parks, then dive into the heavy details of the park and Manzushire Monastery. Including how it was affected during the Stalin purges or Great Purges of the 1930s. All this and more on this weeks episode. Also coming out is a second episode, so make sure to check out both.

This exciting episode is with Kasper Sierslev, author of Win

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and a free copy of his book for my listeners can be found at:

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It's Black History Month! We are going to start celebrating Heritage Months on the show, and what better way then to have a year of designers who positively contributed to design. And we are going to get started with Paul Revere Williams, who was not just an amazing architect, but also a philanthropist, trailblazing, and incredible businessman. He has been nicknamed "the Architect to the Stars" for his incredible work for famous Hollywood stars, but really did so much more for design.

If you are interested in learning more about St. Jude, or him, pleased check out the following websites I mentioned during the show:

https://www.stjude.org

https://www.paulrwilliamsproject.org

On this episode, we discuss the Haunted Sagamore Hotel. A hotel that has topped the charts as both one of the Most haunted hotel in America, and most beautiful. We cover its long history, including the variations to the buildings, after the hotel burned down twice. We cover the various key figures in history, the local land, and some of the ghosts that call the property home.

If you are interested in visiting, check out:

This episode is the conclusion of Central Park, where we go through the entire history, construction, and design of the park. We start off discussing the acquisition of land, and dislocation of 1,600 residents from the area now home to the park, talk about Seneca Village, and then go into the design of the park itself. All this and more, on this week's episode.

If you want to learn more about the park, visit the Central Park Conservancy's website at https://www.centralparknyc.org, and if you want to learn more about their efforts to study Seneca Village check out: https://www.centralparknyc.org/seneca-village

On this mini-episode, we are focused on introducing some of the key figures behind Central Park, Andrew Jackson Downing, Calvert Vaux, and Frederick Law Olmstead. This episode goes solely into their histories and providing a brief understanding on how they all relate, and came together. This is episode provides the foundation that we are going to be using to when we take a deep into the history on Monday. Andrew Jackson Downing was one of the most pivotal Landscape Architects in America, Calvert Vaux is the relatively unknown partner and Architect, and Frederick Law Olmstead is the Father of American Landscape Architecture. See how they come together in this episode!

We are kicking off this week with a new episode on Stonehenge! As a break from the New York Arc we have been covering, we take some time to cover this historic monument that has been captivating countless generations. In this episode, we cover the 1500 years of construction, connections between King Arthur, and talk about what is coming next for the monument. We also discuss several of the possible whys. If you want to learn more about the site, please visit: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/

If you want to learn more about The Stonehenge Alliance, and their petition to stop road changes please visit: https://stonehengealliance.org.uk/

Happy New Year! We are kicking off 2024 with Governors Island, an island in the New York City Harbor, that has an extremely long military career, and was recently redeveloped, with exciting new projects to come. The park can be found at https://www.govisland.com/, including ferry information and pricing.

The blog is located at architecturecoffeeandink.com which also has the complete link of all my sources, previous episodes, and old blog posts. You can email me at [email protected], or head over to the Insta, @architecturecoffeeandink,as well as the TikTok, @architecturecoffeeandink. Architecture, Coffee, & Ink is a Hollywood C. Studios, LLC Production.