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Column: Banking on Boston's architecture of trust

7:44 AM Thu, May 27, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Architecture   Banks   Boston by Foot   Boston MA   ICA & CA   Michael Tyrrell  

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Photo tour of Boston's financial district (buildings, not details)

8:18 PM Tue, May 25, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Architecture   Banks   Boston by Foot   Boston MA   Financial District   ICA & CA   Michael Tyrrell  

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Coming up: Boston's financial district

7:59 PM Tue, May 25, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Boston by Foot   Boston MA   ICA & CA   Michael Tyrrell  

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Steven Semes to speak in Boston on Wednesday

9:22 PM Mon, May 24, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Boston MA   College Club of Boston   ICA & CA   Steven Semes   The Future of the Past  

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Touring Beantown's financial district

9:11 PM Sun, May 23, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

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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 Tags  Architecture   Boston by Foot   Boston MA   Financial District   ICA&CA   Michael Tyrrell  

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