Architecture Here and There

Let's drive that jive a little farther

9:55 PM Thu, May 20, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (5)
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Architecture   Doctor   Medicine   Modernist   Surgery   Traditional  

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Column: Ocean House proudly copies the past

7:52 AM Thu, May 20, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Architecture   Centerbrook Architects   Dimeo   Jeff Riley   Ocean House   Preservation   Watch Hill   Westerly RI  

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Your tour of my tour of Ocean House

9:01 PM Tue, May 18, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Centerbrook Architects   Jeff Riley   Ocean House   Watch Hill   Westerly RI  

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The gut versus the calculator

12:26 AM Sun, May 16, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Andres Duany   Blink   CNU   LEED   Malcolm Gladwell   Metrics   New Urbanism   Statistics  

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