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Courtly Regression

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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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 Tags  Courthouse   Old Journal Building   Palm Beach   Preservation   Waterplace  

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Addendum: Down in the corner . . .

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By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Chelsea Barracks   Chelsea Infirmary   Prince Charles   Quinlan Terry   Richard Rogers  

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Column: Donnybrook at Chelsea Barracks

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By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Chelsea Barracks   Christopher Wren   London   Poundbury   Prince Charles   Quinlan Terry   RIBA   Richard Rogers   Robert Venturi   The Guardian  

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Daffodil of Defiance

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By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Brown University   Modernist   Prince Charles   Providence  

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