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7:44 AM Thu, May 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, in Boston's financial district, tour group views the Boston Five Cents Savings Bank; below, downtown Boston; South Station; view of financial district from South Station; power point image of banks as furniture vs. banks as equipment (at......
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8:18 PM Tue, May 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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A couple of days ago I posted a collection of photographs of details of Boston's financial district without identifying the buildings they embellish. Today I will post a collection of the buildings themselves, including some shots that are a panoply......
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7:59 PM Tue, May 25, 2010 | Permalink |
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Above is the photograph I'd expected to use for my next column, but its representation of a cockeyed financial district made some of my colleagues at the Journal seasick, and so I've replaced it with a photograph whose horizon......
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9:22 PM Mon, May 24, 2010 | Permalink |
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Steven Semes, author of my bible, The Future of the Past: A Conservation Ethic for Architecture, Urbanism and Historic Preservation, will be the guest this Wednesday, May 26, of the New England Chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture &......
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9:11 PM Sun, May 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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Downtown Boston and downtown Providence, like the cities themselves, differ primarily in size but secondarily in the degree to which the fabric of their architectural heritage of beauty is intact. In Providence, very much so. In Boston, not so......
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9:55 PM Thu, May 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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I wish I had a nickel for each time some dolt has told me that new traditional architecture is like a doctor using the surgical practices of 1910 to remove a kidney in 2010. Ocean House does many things very......
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7:52 AM Thu, May 20, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, view of Ocean House, in Watch Hill, with addition, at right, to replicated original (photo by Jeff Riley, Centerbrook Architects). Below, Watch Hill; Ocean House prior to demolition in 2005 (artinruins.com); Ocean House today; Ocean House in......
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9:01 PM Tue, May 18, 2010 | Permalink |
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Come with your intrepid correspondent on a tour of Ocean House, the rebuilt - and expanded - resort hotel that opened in 1868 but was razed in 2005 - and rebuilt in 2010. The ribbon cutting is this Thursday, but......
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12:26 AM Sun, May 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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Here's an excellent observation by Andres Duany in a thread about metrics on the Pro-Urb listserv. Duany is guru of the New Urbanism, whose representative organization, the Congress of the New Urbanism, meets May 19-22 in Atlanta. The New Urbanism......
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3:59 PM Sat, May 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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Above, obviously, is "then" - a postcard from the heyday of Watch Hill. Ocean House thrived but fell into decline in the latter half of the past century. Its nadir arrived not long before the photograph below was taken,......
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7:36 AM Sat, May 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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I've always wondered how - by what criteria - one prefers one work of modern architecture over another. I find I have a companion in my confusion. He is deconstructivist architect Peter Eisenman. Here he is interviewed by the......
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6:21 AM Thu, May 13, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, Shawsheen charette in Boston. Clockwise from lower left: Hal Wuertz, Adam Bonosky (standing), Michael Maloof, Aaron Helfand, Eric Daum, Ivan Bereznicki. (Michael Tyrrell arrived soon after). Below, Post Office, designed by Adden & Parker; the Balmoral Spa;......
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12:40 AM Wed, May 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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Here is my column of April 2, 2009, on Shawsheen Village: Shawsheen Village, in Andover, Mass., is a mill village built between 1919 and 1926 by William Wood, head of the American Woolen Co., then the world's largest producer of......
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8:42 AM Mon, May 10, 2010 | Permalink |
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A year ago, the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICA&CA) joined with the regional chapter of the Congress of the New Urbanism (CNU) to murder every first-born son of ... Not really.......
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2:01 PM Thu, May 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Winner of the style wars for the 21st Century? Let's hope not indeed!......
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12:33 AM Thu, May 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Here I have collected (along with my replies to a few of them) the e-mails and projo.com or blog comments received in response to a call, in my column of April 22, for readers to choose the ugliest building in......
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12:32 AM Thu, May 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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Illustrations: Above, GTECH, far left, butts into Capital Center's "new old" Westin and Providence Place mall. Below, Westin towers (original at left); Providence Place; Courtyard Marriott; Capital Center (photo by Sandor Bodo); Brown Sciences Library; Renaissance Hall (J&W dorm);......
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9:20 PM Tue, May 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Your roving correspondent covered the announcement at Trinity Brewhouse on Sunday of cabaret singer Laurel Casey's bid for mayor of Providence. A raucus crowd cheered her entry into the race. The crowd was seeded with agents of other mayoral......
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9:08 PM Tue, May 04, 2010 | Permalink |
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Thursday's column will unveil the results of a (circulation-) district-wide poll for opinion of the ugliest building in Providence. The results are in, and wherever you sit on the architectural spectrum, you'll have good reason to happily grind your......
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9:49 AM Mon, May 03, 2010 | Permalink |
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I had to wait a while for a translation of this article sent to me by David Orbach, an architect and town planner, who wrote it along with fellow architect and town planner Isabelle Coste and Denis Dessus, vice......
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