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Eye candy for midcentury addicts May 21st

April 30, 2023 – 7:29 pm

For many years, we at Lawrence Modern have fed your addiction to midcentury modern architecture and lifestyle with numerous private home tours of cool midcentury houses. But over the past four or five years we have held no private gatherings at residential properties, giving you all time to dry out. Well, that time has passed. […]

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The new KCI: SOM kind of airport

April 19, 2023 – 9:55 pm

It’s hard to leave home, but Kansas City has given us good reason to do so with the new Kansas City International Air Terminal. With its flying canopy and epic structural spans, the terminal stands as a gleaming temple of aviation—an inviting gateway to the heavens in the middle of flyover country. Fronted by a […]

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Save Smith Hall Open House: ‘We’re all in it together’

December 6, 2022 – 3:11 pm

Smith Hall, home to KU’s Department of Religious Studies, has been earmarked for demolition. Lawrence Modern, alongside the Lawrence Preservation Alliance and the Historic Mount Oread Friends groups, hosted an Open House on Saturday, Dec. 3 to raise awareness of the building’s plight. The event drew an estimated 125 attendees—current and former students, faculty, staff […]

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Stop KU’s demolition of Smith Hall!

November 10, 2022 – 12:13 am

Irma I. Smith Hall, home of the Department of Religious Studies located on the prominent northeast entrance of 13th Street & Oread Avenue is slated for demolition. The University of Kansas administration will seek permission from the Kansas Board of Regents to demolish the building during the summer or fall of 2023 after only 55 […]

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Studio 804 Shines at 519 Indiana

September 2, 2022 – 1:38 pm

Lawrence Modern has long maintained an interest in the work of distinguished professor Dan Rockhill’s Studio 804, the KU School of Architecture’s hands-on design/build master class. Each spring we look forward to seeing what his tech-savvy students have concocted using the latest building technologies, usually from the always innovating Germans and Swedes. And while midcentury […]

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