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11:28 PM Wed, Mar 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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Boo-hoo! Washington Post architecture critic Roger K. Lewis bemoans the lack of market interest in modernist houses. His article is here. He offers readers (most of whom are probably spouting on his behalf enough crocodile tears to flood their......
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10:55 PM Wed, Mar 31, 2010 | Permalink |
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Here are designs by the three losers among the four finalists in the design competition for the new U.S. Embassy in London. The winner, which will appear with tomorrow's column, is the same but different, as you will see......
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9:09 AM Thu, Mar 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, Providence Career & Technical High School, at left, with Citizens Bank just beyond. Below: Classical High School, Central High School, Hoyle Tavern, Union Trust, Superior Courthouse, Bliss Place seen from deck of 253 Waterman St., Wriston Quadrangle......
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10:21 PM Wed, Mar 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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On top is Central High School, in Providence, and on the bottom is Classical High School, in Providence - indeed, right next door. Somehow, Central is classical and Classical is modernist - Brutalist, to be exact (and oh-so-apt). The......
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11:24 AM Mon, Mar 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, Bliss Place; below, 253 Waterman, Bliss Place from deck of 253 Waterman, the sad house directly facing Bliss Place * * * The other day I saw a wonderful house that was maybe $100,000 less expensive than......
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11:28 PM Fri, Mar 19, 2010 | Permalink |
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These two townhouses were built on spec in Chicago's Lincoln Park, just north of the Loop, and designed by Timothy LeVaughn. Congratulations to him for this excellent work. He is an architect and partner in Melrose Partners. Its web......
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7:51 AM Thu, Mar 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, Freeman House, in Bristol, from Yankee Modern (2009, Princeton Architectural Press), photo by Michael Mathers; below, the book cover; Horgan Cottage, in Jamestown, Cyronak House, on Block Island * * * Architecture critic and historian William Morgan......
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8:52 PM Wed, Mar 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
H.L. Mencken, whose tendency to "heave dead cats" is noted in my column tomorrow, wrote about modern architecture in 1931. The essay was printed in Alistair Cooke's collection "The Vintage Mencken." The link is here. Mencken is as inimitable in......
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8:44 AM Wed, Mar 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Will Morgan, who kindly filled in for your's truly when I took a break last week from writing this supposedly weekly column, has written a book called "Yankee Modern," which I return the favor by reviewing tomorrow. Will Will consider......
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8:33 AM Wed, Mar 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The web site for these new luxury townhouses, called La Virage, on the square of the seacoast town of Habersham, S.C., offers 83 images of the exterior and interior. Luxury for buyers, yes, but luxury also for passersby to......
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7:06 PM Sat, Mar 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
This passage from Pillars of the Earth, by Ken Follett, says some simple but important things about architecture, or, shall we say, architecture as it ought to be. The book's plot follows the construction of a cathedral in the......
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4:00 PM Sat, Mar 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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Above is a most beautiful house for sale at $359,000. It is on Narragansett Boulevard, in Edgewood. The listing, through Residential Properties, with a couple dozen pictures, is here. Its agent, Gerri Schiffman, says it would be listing for......
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9:01 AM Thu, Mar 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Top, New house designed for Frank Scotti on College Hill, in Providence (courtesy of Arris Design); Chafee Garden; plan of house on garden plot; nearby houses * * * Five Cooke St., the Zechariah Chafee House, built in......
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10:02 AM Wed, Mar 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Tomorrow's column regards a house proposed for the Chafee Garden. The column below, mentioned in the preceding post and in tomorrow's column, was published on Feb. 2, 2006. * * * Showdown at the Chafee Garden David Brussat COOKE STREET,......
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9:06 AM Wed, Mar 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Well, not exactly. But the Chafee Garden, and the mansion it abuts, have a long pedigree that's now at risk of being extended by having a house plopped onto the beloved garden, called a piazza in the 1986 survey......
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7:39 PM Mon, Mar 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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The illustration above has been denounced as a "historical pastiche" by the usual suspects in Scotland, the assassins of beauty. Looks as if this golf paradise project could be nibbled to death by ducks if the architects adopt the......
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