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8:05 AM Thu, Apr 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat  Email
Illustrations: Above, Boston's City Hall Plaza design by Aaron Helfand. Below, Scolley Square; Helfand's Boston City Hall; ground plans of Siena, Boston's City Hall Plaza today and Helfand's plaza; Piazza del Campo; James Bond in Siena; Siena's Palazzo Publico;......
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9:34 PM Tue, Apr 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Two blog posts on Aaron Helfand's proposal for Boston City Hall, from his thesis at Notre Dame, have stirred passions from Deep Internet. Let's do it again! Thursday's column, being prepared as votes continue to be cast to determine......
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10:10 PM Mon, Apr 26, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Here's some follow-up on Aaron Helfand's spectacular proposal to replace Boston City Hall with a city hall worthy of Boston. His ideas spring from a thesis done at Notre Dame's School of Architecture, under the tutelage of Duncan Stroik.......
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8:55 PM Thu, Apr 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Top, analytical drawing, known as an analytique, of Aaron Helfand's proposed new Boston City Hall; below, elevations of the proposal from different directions, an interior plan, and further detail of the City Hall proposal (paired, in the opening......
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8:23 AM Thu, Apr 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, Boston City Hall, by Kallmann, McKinnell & Wood, interior of Boston City Hall, the site of Boston City Hall before demolition, winning entry in Rotch contest, proposal for a new Boston City Hall, by Aaron Helfand, of......
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2:30 PM Wed, Apr 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Nobody can be deluded about my choice for the ugliest building in Providence. I've paraded it up hither and down yon for years. But there is, in fact, a choice. It's between the GTECH building, the Chace Center at RISD......
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2:12 PM Wed, Apr 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Today is the 50th anniversary of the city of Brasilia, the spot 600 miles west of Rio, the middle fo nowhere, where the braniacs of postwar Brazil decided to rebuild their nation's capital, hiring Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer to......
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2:07 PM Wed, Apr 21, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Tomorrow's column turned out to be based on Robert Campbell's call for readers to send him their picks for the ugliest buildings in Boston. You can read that column here, and the column he wrote to summarize readers' picks here.......
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12:45 PM Sat, Apr 17, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Boston Globe critic Robert Campbell wrote recently of how the British enjoy hating bad architecture. He invited readers to pick Boston's ugliest, and urged them to bring some passion to their selections. The result is his March 21 column......
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8:50 AM Thu, Apr 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Top, Concept submitted by Ateliers Jean Nouvel, of Paris, for Grand Paris; bottom, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz, Le Corbusier plan for Paris, 2005 suburban riots, submissions from MVRDV, with the rest available here, the Tour Montparnasse, Herzog and......
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8:33 PM Wed, Apr 14, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, the logo of Grand Paris; below, Paris Hilton from a photoshopping contest, and the real grand Paris, the Grand Palais and its truly grand environment. * * * Not yet. But French President Nicolas Sarkozy in 2008......
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10:01 AM Sun, Apr 11, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Steve Mouzon, architect and creator of the Original Green web site, is in Havana for a conference sponsored by INTBAU, the International Netword for Traditional Building, Architecture and Urbanism. He sent to the TradArch list this set of lovely......
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10:32 PM Sat, Apr 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The very amusing sendup of architecture firms' web sites, sent to the TradArch list by Duncan McRoberts, an architect in Kirkland, Wash., is here. Enjoy!......
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8:33 AM Thu, Apr 08, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, design for the proposed Jonathan Nelson Fitness Center, at Brown (from a handout at a Brown meeting with local community on March 31). Below, photograph of rendering of Nelson Fitness (shot by author from image on screen......
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11:43 PM Sun, Apr 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, map of Brown athletic complex; below, Dexter Asylum, Marvel Gymnasium, cupola saved during Marvel's demolition * * * Won't give away what I think of the new design - actually, a replacement of a discarded modernist design......
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9:33 PM Sun, Apr 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
A couple of weeks ago, after my column applauding (with a couple of feints to the contrary to build reader interest) Will Morgan's book Yankee Modern, your intrepid correspondent got a pleasant e-mail from Shannon Horsley, who noted that......
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8:34 AM Thu, Apr 01, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, winning entry by KieranTimberlake in design competition for new U.S. Embassy in London (courtesy U.S. Department of State); below, entries by Thom Mayne of Orpheus, by Richard Meier, by Pei Cobb Freed & Partners, current U.S. Embassy......
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