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11:52 AM Sat, May 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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Readers of the Journal have even more to deplore than they realize, a sad fact that will be rammed home cruelly in my next column. My comment on the new buildings recently built, under construction and in planning hereabouts......
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6:57 AM Thu, May 28, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photos: Above, CVS at Providence Place; below & inset, Gourmet Heaven on Weybosset LAST WEEK AND NEXT WEEK may see the achievement of two longtime goals for downtown Providence. Last Saturday, for the first time in at least a......
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12:10 AM Wed, May 27, 2009 | Permalink |
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Okay, okay. Not sex and violence. Pharmacies and grocery stores. The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial on the deficit years ago under the headline "Sex and violence." Whether that trick will whet your appetite, dear reader, for a column......
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11:31 PM Sun, May 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Hauling on ropes to topple the great Providence Housing Authority Executive Director, I and several others to be named later in this announcement will roast Steve O'Rourke next Monday, June 1, beginning at 6, at the Hi Hat, at Davol......
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12:02 PM Sat, May 23, 2009 | Permalink |
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What looks clear from the post-fire photos is that the basic structural shape of the TVCC building does not appear to have been altered at all. The lines look to be consistent with the pre-fire lines, though what it looks......
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9:26 AM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here is the RIBA reply to the Jenkins essay. It is by Sunand Prasad, president of the Royal Institute of British Architects. Strikes me as strikingly lame. By the way, at right is the residential complex, Roehampton, by Sir Richard......
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7:53 AM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here is a fine essay in The Guardian by its columnist Simon Jenkins. The essence is his assertion that the prince shouldn't apologize to the modernists, the modernists should apologize to the people. (Lingo alert: In Brit, "housing estates" are......
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12:49 AM Thu, May 21, 2009 | Permalink |
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Photograph: Prince Charles (center) in 1984 at the 150th anniversary of the Royal Institute of British Architects. With him are RIBA Gold Medalist Charles Correa (left) and RIBA president Michael Manser. (Photo courtesy of bdonline.com) PRINCE CHARLES addressed the......
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12:28 AM Tue, May 19, 2009 | Permalink |
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This week's column will quote heavily from Prince Charles's speech to the Royal Institute of British Architects. In the entry "Charles sticks to his guns" I linked to the full text and to an edited 37-minute video of the speech.......
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8:40 AM Thu, May 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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In "Capitol Cove and its just desserts," I wrote: "Capitol Cove reminds me of the produce terminal demolished last year amid regret for its historical if not its aesthetic qualities." Below are photos of the two arrayed for comparison. At......
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8:33 AM Thu, May 14, 2009 | Permalink |
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Capitol Cove, next to the Moshassuck River in downtown Providence Photo by David Brussat A SENSE of resignation greets the lease of the Capitol Cove condos to Johnson & Wales University as dorms. The three-year lease has an option......
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8:09 PM Tue, May 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Prince Charles's speech to RIBA continued to attack modernism, in terms perhaps not quite so harsh as his "carbuncle" language during his RIBA speech of 1984, but equally pointed. It may be one of the most profound orations delivered by......
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8:37 AM Tue, May 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Prince Charles addresses the Royal Institute of British Architects today - in about five hours GMT. Reports variously suggest that it will be an amicable affair if not a love-in, but also that Britain's architectural establishment is quaking in its......
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12:06 AM Tue, May 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here is the lead from George Will's latest column, "Capitalism goes out of tune," which concerns the world of free markets turned upside down (stay with me here!): From Oct. 18 to Dec. 3, 1961, 116,000 people visited New York's......
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8:52 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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Readers noting the absence of my column in Thursday's paper might be mollified to learn early of next week's column topic - Capitol Cove, the condo development that's now been leased to Johnson & Wales as a dormitory. The following......
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7:46 AM Fri, May 08, 2009 | Permalink |
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In a throwaway line to the blog entry "Courtly Regression" I pointed out that the beauty of Providence, achieved at Waterplace Park in the 1990s, was snatched away in the first decade of the new century. Here are a couple......
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