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- Back to the Blueprint series (Academic Video Online) Series on American homes, factories, lighthouses, windmills, and more.
- Sunday morning. What's new is old (streaming, Academic Video Online) This segment of Sunday Morning is about restoring and preserving historic buildings, and designing new ones that pay tribute to the past.
- 60 minutes. The Capitol dome (streaming, Academic Video Online) May 15, 2014 - The iconic skyline symbol of our democracy, the dome of the Capitol in Washington D.C., has not been refurbished in over 50 years. Scott Pelley reports on an ambitious restoration project for the 150-year-old structure.
- Panorama of Flatiron Building (streaming, Academic Video Online) This shows a view looking south from Madison Square, across the intersection of Broadway, Fifth Avenue, and Twenty-third Street, to the famous Fuller (or "Flatiron") Building.
- At the Foot of the Flatiron (streaming, Academic Video Online) This street level view is of the Broadway side of the Flatiron, or Fuller Building, near the narrow north corner.
- American masters. Eero Saarinen : the architect who saw the future (streaming, Academic Video Online) Explore the life of Finnish-American modernist architectural giant Eero Saarinen (1910-1961), whose visionary buildings include National Historic Landmarks such as St. Louis' iconic Gateway Arch and the General Motors Technical Center (Warren, Mich.), Saarinen also designed New York's TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Yale University's Ingalls Rink and Morse and Ezra Stiles Colleges, Virginia's Dulles Airport, and modernist pedestal furniture like the Tulip chair. His sudden death at age 51 cut short one of the most influential careers in American architecture.
