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April 2009 Archives
8:18 PM Thu, Apr 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat  Email
Preservation, the journal of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has in its May/June issue an astonishing retrieval of a lovely old 1916 county courthouse in Palm Beach, Fla. Needing more space, the county in 1969 built a new and......
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6:33 AM Thu, Apr 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Down in the lower right corner of the illustration of the Quinlan Terry design is a building labeled "The New Infirmary." It is not part of the Chelsea Barracks site, which is across the street, but a part of......
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6:19 AM Thu, Apr 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Illustration: Richard Rogers design (l.), Quinlan Terry design (r.) WHEN the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) announced a month ago that its nemesis, the Prince of Wales, would keynote its 175th annual meeting, it looked like a hugfest.......
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8:15 PM Mon, Apr 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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This message was posted to TradArch list from a friend at Brown: As I was walking home from the library today, enjoying the first burst of Spring to truly reach Providence, I saw something that reminded me of Prince Charles'......
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12:52 AM Fri, Apr 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Photo: Park under the Fox Point end of the new Route 195 ("Iway") bridge THE NEW PARK in Providence? What new park in Providence? Well, the one that is so new, so unpublicized and so unknown that it might......
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8:59 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Reprinted from "Scrapbook" section of the April 13 issue of The Weekly Standard: From Mark Bowden's profile of Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., the publisher and chairman of the New York Times, in the May Vanity Fair: Only two years ago......
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8:28 PM Wed, Apr 22, 2009 | Permalink |
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Maybe it's a little late, but tomorrow's column, for those who want to know in advance, will be about the little park underneath the Iway bridge, above, in Providence. To make up for my tardiness in getting the word......
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11:20 AM Thu, Apr 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photoshopped image by C. Zvanevec, of Charlestown The Waterplace Luxury Condo Towers are being attacked by a swarm of GTECHs. The photoshopper figures a more hopeful image for the Capital Center, in Providence, would be of the buildings being......
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8:19 AM Thu, Apr 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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The top photo was taken the week before the "A suite spot inn downtown" column was written, with Hampton Inn developer Jim Karam rushing up the street to hand me a brochure. I hadn't noticed him as I snapped......
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7:28 AM Thu, Apr 16, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Photo: On Weybosset Street, the new Hampton Inn and Suites is at center right. (Photo by David Brussat) JUST AS this article borrows (with the pundit's apologies) the delightful headline of Philip Marcelo's story on the new Hampton Inn and......
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11:09 AM Sun, Apr 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Two flaps in Britain involving Prince Charles: First, he has commissioned a building in Poundbury, a fire station, lovely, now completed and reaping the sort of outrage from the modernists that you'd expect. Second, he has intervened in a housing......
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11:25 AM Sat, Apr 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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11:16 AM Sat, Apr 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Next week's column will be a review of the new Hampton Inn on Weybosset Street, in downtown Providence. Readers of this blog will note the gentleman in the suit crossing Weybosset as the author shoots the photograph he intends to......
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10:53 AM Sat, Apr 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
In the version of my "Rebranding Fort Providence" column that I sent out to members of the Traditional Architecture List, I noted that the photograph with the newspaper version of the column was superimposed with a bold headline, "Branded!"......
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12:07 AM Thu, Apr 09, 2009 | Permalink |
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What do you do when you're branded, and you know you're a sham? CAPTAIN McCORD, meet Fort Providence. Branded, starring Chuck Connors as Army Capt. Jason McCord, premiered on NBC in 1965. McCord is cashiered for cowardice at the Battle......
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4:17 PM Wed, Apr 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
This blog, Architecture Here and There, will reprint my usual Thursday column, published in The Providence Journal. I will also publish remarks and commentaries that do not fit in my usual space, including photos that strike me as noteworthy or......
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