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June 2009 Archives
9:51 PM Tue, Jun 30, 2009 | Permalink |
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That is, the wonder of living downtown. It rocks. A couple days ago I received an e-mail from a friend. After reading my blog flogging the open house of downtown residential complexes (see the blog entry "Tour of downtown living"......
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10:25 PM Mon, Jun 29, 2009 | Permalink |
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Readers of this blog have been kept up to date on the Battle of Styles under way in Britain over Chelsea Barracks, and Prince Charles's great victory over Sir Richard Rogers, Lord Riverside. But many nonreaders of this blog......
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9:38 AM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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Christopher Reed, of Exeter, wanted me to reply to Martina Windels's piece on last Sunday's Commentary page, "Wheeler's lovely new building." I thought Martina's piece was very nicely argued, but a good effort in a bad cause. Reed suggested a......
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8:02 AM Fri, Jun 26, 2009 | Permalink |
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John Massengale's fabulous blog Veritas & Venustas (albeit overly political and baseballish for my tastes) is one of my favorites among favorites. He also posts a lot to the TradArch list. Today he links to this UK Guardian article by......
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8:16 AM Thu, Jun 25, 2009 | Permalink |
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Illustration: Cutaway diagram of restorations to Somerset House, Victoria Embankment, London (From Living Buildings, by Donald Insall, 2009, Images Publishing) WHEN WINDSOR CASTLE had a major fire in 1992, Donald Insall was hired by the British royal family to......
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8:48 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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This essay in the London Evening Standard by Simon Jenkins may be the most astute assessment of the Chelsea Barracks imbroglio I've read thus far. It points out that Sir Richard Rogers's proposal violated all the precepts of the......
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2:32 PM Wed, Jun 24, 2009 | Permalink |
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Readers are forewarned that tomorrow's column, coming up fast without leaving you much time to prepare, reviews Living Buildings, by Donald Insall, master restorer, whose firm has operated out of London for half a century. The book was published......
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11:58 PM Sat, Jun 20, 2009 | Permalink |
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Here's a piece by Nigel Farndale in the UK Telegraph, who stands up for the Prince of Wales. Farndale unpacks some of the psychological tremors of doing so. Nicely done. Another piece, by Quentin Letts in the Daily Mail (UK),......
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8:23 PM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Gas is heading up again. Want to live where you can walk to work? Your intrepid correspondent assures you that downtown Providence offers many of the charms of metropolitan life without the hassles of the big city. Curious? Take a......
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9:10 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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What is this new building, at the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, in New York, designed by Thom Mayne (Pritzker Prize winner, natch) saying? Whatever it may be, Nicolai Ouroussoff in his New York Times......
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8:50 AM Wed, Jun 17, 2009 | Permalink |
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Following the conventional practice of organized protest, collective of groups unrelated to firefighters or mayors glommed onto last weekend's "informational" picket. In tomorrow's column, learn how to calculate your Average Life Altitude while fuming over the Obama boycott of......
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7:55 PM Mon, Jun 15, 2009 | Permalink |
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Now that the royal family of Qatar has officially kicked Sir Richard Rogers off the Chelsea Barracks development, Prince Charles has now scuppered three of his projects - the Royal Opera House, Paternoster Row (next to Wren's St. Paul's Cathedral)......
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12:10 AM Fri, Jun 12, 2009 | Permalink |
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"We must rescue art from the modern intoxication with ugliness" is the subtitle of this essay by the British philosopher Roger Scruton, in the Spring issue of City Journal, the quarterly of the Manhattan Institute. I met the author of......
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12:19 AM Thu, Jun 11, 2009 | Permalink |
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Above: WaterFire in 2001, before Waterplace Park was surrounded by modern architecture (Photo by Richard Benjamin) MAYORS arriving in Providence tomorrow for the annual meeting of the U.S. Conference of Mayors will find a city spiffed up for their......
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10:42 AM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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Oops! An astute reader, Wendy, points out that it was not Oscar Wilde but F. Scott Fitzgerald who provided posterity with the tedious line about holding two opposing ideas in mind. So imagine the photo at right as you......
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9:27 AM Wed, Jun 10, 2009 | Permalink |
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In a post to the Traditional Architecture list, architect Gary Brewer, of Robert A.M. Stern Architects, replied to a critique of Will Morgan's positive review of a modernist house on Pratt Street, College Hill, in Monday's Providence Journal. The pungent......
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8:40 AM Thu, Jun 04, 2009 | Permalink |
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Proposed Granoff Center for the Creative Arts THE INVASION OF PROVIDENCE by modern architecture continues apace. Your embattled correspondent dares not peep out of his foxhole. The uglitarians are inside the gates. This reporter will meet the assault with......
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