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Column: Secret design for a Providence bridge

7:21 AM Thu, Jul 29, 2010 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Proposed designs for a footbridge over the Providence River by Bill Warner (above, top), the Maguire Group (above, middle) and Jay Litman & Michael van Hamel (above, bottom); question marks (below left) represent stealth footbridge proposal whose designers......

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Tags 3six0 Architecture Friedrich St. Florian Paris Pont des Arts Providence Foundation Providence RI William D. Warner

Coming up: Outing a footbridge too far

5:25 PM Wed, Jul 28, 2010 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustration: The Pont des Arts crossing the Sein, between the Louvre and (in this shot) L'Institut de Paris, in Paris * * * This week's exercise in investigative architecture criticism involves a call from a whistleblower who felt that......

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Tags Architecture Design Review Footbridge Paris Pont des Arts Providence RI

Column: Gingerbread beauties survived in Haiti

6:21 PM Sat, Jul 24, 2010 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Note: The irregularity and paucity of this blog of late may be blamed on two vacations in four weeks this June, then successive weeks in July that opened with a closing (on a new home) and continued with packing, moving,......

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Tags Andres Duany Architecture Gingerbread Victorians Haiti New Urbanism Time William Daniels

Column: Ask Dr. Downtown

7:38 AM Thu, Jul 15, 2010 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Note: Readers of this blog may be unaware of the longstanding "Ask Dr. Downtown" column, in which readers ask Dr. Downtown (aka this blogger) questions. This occasional series had until today been on pause since the Providence Journal went to......

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Tags Downtown Dr. Downtown Dutch Colonial East Side Moving Providence RI

Coming up: Moving out of downtown

11:23 PM Wed, Jul 14, 2010 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

A blast from the past, sort of. The first "Ask Dr. Downtown" column since Sept. 18, 2008, derailed almost two years ago for reasons unveiled in tomorrow's column. "Why is Dr. Downtown abandoning downtown?" Well, is he? Check it out.......

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