Category Archives: Architecture

Last week’s shot of a knife-edge building split our respondents.

Did Christo and Jeanne-Claude slip in and out of town, leaving behind nothing but a coverup? OK, so it isn't an endeavor on a par with, say, the Wrapped Reichstag in Berlin. Yet this public display remains a mysterious, vaguely...

The developer agreed to redesign the upper floors to incorporate more brickwork than shown in these earlier elevations of the west and east sides of the proposed structure. (Click to englarge) By LAURA KOSS The Red Bank planning board last...

The extra floors would be tacked onto an addition already approved for the lot between the Atrium at Navesink Harbor, center, and Riverview Towers, right. The lot at left foreground would provide parking for the Atrium. The six-story six-story addition-to-the...

An architectural rendering of the proposed garage and office building, as seen from the northwest corner of Shrewsbury Avenue and West Front Street. A proposal to effectively double the size of the Galleria Red Bank shopping, dining and office complex...

Jamian LaViola's solution to indoor-outdoor dining on Monmouth Street: garage doors. A long-awaited transformation of a Monmouth Street watering hole moved into its final stages yesterday when Jamian's Food & Drink (formerly Echo), blew out its old facade. In it's...

For decades, this is what library patrons curious about the upper floors have encountered. In what were once the demurely separate bedrooms of Mr. & Mrs. Sigmund Eisner, the Red Bank Public Library last year created two new second-floor reading...

With a parking deck topped by two floors of offices, Galleria Park would connect to the existing building via a two-level footbridge. Below, a view of the proposed structure from West Front Street. (Click to enlarge) The nation's economy may...

A heated tent awaits the throng of full-time and part-time Irishmen for today's St. Patrick's Day celebration at the Dublin House. Below, a view of the recently completed first-floor bar. (Click to enlarge) Patrons of today's St. Patrick's Day celebration...

Last week's Where framed an odd mix of architectural surfaces. Among the responses: "rite aid" "The old K HOV building on Hwy 35 shot from Nicholas?" "I am totally guessing, but I think it might be the Viet Nam Vets...

The item highlighted in last week's 'Where' seems to have something of a doppleganger nearby, leading our respondents to split their answers. About half of those who wrote in thought the pictures showed lighting fixtures at the Salt Creek Grille...

Employees of McGhee Contracting, hoisted into position by a lift, hammer away at RBC's stack Saturday morning. Demolition of Red Bank Catholic's smokestack got underway Saturday, a few days earlier than expected. Tim McGhee, owner of McGhee Contracting in Oceanport,...

The borough is under the gun to upgrade its court operations, and looking at this building as part of the fix. By SUE MORGAN Sea Bright officials were left with narrowed options this week after finding little support for a...

Here's a new video showing the work done on the interior of the Count Basie Theatre during the $8 million sprucing up of the Red Bank showcase this summer. The video consists of still photos taken every 15 seconds from...

Here's a charming video by Larry Higgs of the Asbury Park Press, who accompanied a fourth-grade class from the Red Bank Charter School on a trip to the newly rebuilt 7 World Trade Center recently. Dana McQuillan, who's both a...

There was a lot of neck-craning as several hundred visitors took tours of the newly resplendent Count Basie Theatre Wednesday night. A security guard recalled bits of dried plaster sprinkling his hair during a concert by the rock band Kansas....

The aisle stanchion on row U, left; a view of the hall from the balcony, right. (Photos by Jim Willis) After four months in dry dock, it's back to the high seas of entertainment for the Count Basie Theatre Thursday...

A new chandelier will hang from a skyscape-painted dome that was crumbling before the latest renovations at the Count Basie Theatre. (Photo courtesy of Jim Willis) In less than a week, the Count Basie Theatre gets back to the business...

Bill Meyer says the borough shouldn't negotiate over the former borough hall until it's investigated the sale to Kids Bridge eight years ago. Below right: a copy of a business entity status report he says raises questions about the deal....

Almost totally obscured by scaffolding all summer, the view from the BasieCam this morning reveals a made-over performance space as it nears completion. (Click to enlarge) Taking a major step in its against-the-clock interior renovation project, workers at the Count...