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October 20, 2009 Archives

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Symposium: The American Renaissance and Providence

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above: World's Columbian Exposition, 1893, in Chicago; Butler Exchange at Exchange Place, in Providence, circa 1900; bottom, WaterFire at Waterplace, in Capital Center, Providence, circa 2000, photo by Richard Benjamin. * * * A symposium (details here) this......

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 Tags  City Beautiful   Providence Preservation Society   Providence RI   Richard Benjamin   World's Columbian  

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Coming up: Piling on the modernists

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, new buildings in Dresden's Neumarkt, at the center of which (see below middle, rebuilt, below bottom original) is the reconstructed Frauenkirche, a monumental Baroque church destroyed in World War II (photos of Neumarkt and Dresden skyline by......

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 Tags  AIA   architecture   Berlin   Dresden   London   Nikos Salingaros   Paris   Richard Rogers   Stirling Prize  

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