Architecture Here and There

Blast from the past: 'Squinting at Prof. Muschamp'

1:11 PM Thu, Jun 24, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

In my column "Bob Stern's complex contradictions" I had initially written about the first time I used my column to blast an important architecture critic for a major metropolitan daily. That paragraph ended up on the cutting-room floor. But......

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Column: Bob Stern's complex contradictions

8:13 AM Thu, Jun 24, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, an architect's cubicle at the New York headquarters of Robert A.M. Stern Architects; below, Robert A.M. Stern at RAMSA penthouse; Stern at far left during party for Philip Johnson in 1993; Stern (just left of Johnson) in......

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 Tags  Architecture   Gary Brewer   ICA & CA   Modernism   New York   Peter Morris Dixon   RAMSA   Robert A.M. Stern   Yale  

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Coming up: A visit to NY's other major classicist pillar

11:41 PM Wed, Jun 23, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

I'm hurrying to get this "Coming up" feature in under the gun - before the feature it promotes pops onto projo.com. Last week's column featured one of two pillars of classicism in New York, the ICA & CA; this......

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 Tags  ICA & CA   New York   RAMSA   Robert A.M. Stern  

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Expatriate with big mouth lands in Rhode Island

7:24 PM Thu, Jun 17, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

I thank Carol Lukowski for transmitting these photos of an American white pelican seen in or near Westerly on Wednesday. A pelican in these parts is said to be rare. There's speculation it's a refugee from the Gulf. Well, Brother......

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 Tags  Birdwatching   Gulf of Mexico   Ornithology   Pelican   Westerly RI  

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Column: Classicists bestride West 44th Street

7:58 AM Thu, Jun 17, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Ornamental arm and hammer adorns ICA & CA headquarters on Mechanics Society Building; poop-deck window at NYYC; Mechanics Society Building; sculpture in ICA & CA classroom; temple model and torsos in another classroom; ICA & CA president Paul Gunther......

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 Tags  Architecture   Century Association   Henry Hope Reed   ICA & CA   New York   New York Yacht Club   Paul Gunther   Sculpture   Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen  

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A worst-case tour of downtown Atlanta

10:28 PM Wed, Jun 16, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

The 18th annual Congress for the New Urbanism met in downtown Atlanta a few weeks ago, and James Howard Kunstler - famous for his web site's Eyesore of the Month - put together a photo essay of the charms......

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 Tags  Atlanta GA   Buff Chace   CNU   downtown   Duany   Kunstler   Millenium Gate  

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Coming up: Our vacation in Manhattan

9:37 PM Tue, Jun 15, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: 20 West 44th St. in 1892 and in 2008 after its 1905 expansion. * * * This week's column takes readers on a visit to 20 West 44th St. (above), in New York, where the headquarters of the......

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 Tags  Christopher Gray   ICA & CA   New York   Society of Mechanics and Tradesmen   West 44th St.  

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The end of pointlessly pointy architecture? We'll see

12:17 AM Tue, Jun 15, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: Above, from the slide show, is the proposed addition to London's Tate Modern, an allegedly downspirited version by the original's architect, Switzerland's Herzog & de Meuron. * * * Has the recession brought an end to pointlessly pointy......

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 Tags  Architecture   Bilbao Effect   Modernism   Newsweek   Oren Safdie   Starchitect  

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You can't make this stuff up

11:07 PM Thu, Jun 03, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (4)
By David Brussat    Email

A paraphrase of James Howard Kunstler's "Eyesore of the Month." Peek, if you dare. You can click backward or forward to see other monstrosities. Check out, for example, the new Amtrak station in St. Louis. Appalling. And Kunstler notes......

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 Tags  Amtrak   Architecture   Eyesore of the Month   James Howard Kunstler   St. Louis MO  

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Column: The density of the "creative capital"

7:28 AM Thu, Jun 03, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, looking west on Weybosset Street, in downtown Providence; below, chart with "smart" study; view of Weybosset Street from the west; another view of Weybosset from the west; the Weybosset Street Comfort Station (1914) today; Robert Kenny in......

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 Tags  Creativity   Downtown   Mayor Cicilline   Planning   PPAC   Providence RI   Richard Florida   Traffic  

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Coming up: Save the Weybosset Street forest

9:20 PM Tue, Jun 01, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Thursday's column reminded me of a column I wrote a couple of years ago about how to revitalize Weybosset Street near PPAC. That column may be read here. Thursday's column doesn't even use the words "outdoor cafe." There's a......

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 Tags  Outdoor Cafes   PPAC   Providence RI   Weybosset Street  

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