In a recently released article by Architectural Digest listing the best places to travel in 2023, Buffalo made the cut. Western New York’s biggest city was just one of three American cities to be included in the list.
Accompanied by an interior photo of the Darwin Martin House, the article states, “Buffalo has long been an under-the-radar pilgrimage site for architecture buffs. The city’s industrial heyday yielded some of the most superlative American buildings of the early 20th century, among them Louis Sullivan’s tile-clad Guaranty building and Frank Lloyd Wright’s iconic Martin House, a paradigm of his Prairie style, now restored to its original glory.”
The article notes that “It was here that Frederick Law Olmsted weaved his network of parks in the 19th century; here that Eero and Eliel Saarinen unveiled their sublime Kleinhans Music Hall in 1940; and here that Gordon Bunshaft added his modernist auditorium to what is now the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in 1962. That venerable institution will build upon Buffalo’s rich architectural legacy next spring, when it unveils a spectacular new wing—among other ingenious improvements—by OMA’s Shohei Shigematsu. Buffalo, soon more than ever, will warrant a weekend visit.”
The two other American cities to make the list were Baltimore, Maryland and Little Rock, Arkansas.
For the full list and to read the entire article, visit ArchitecturalDigest.com.
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