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September 2010 Archives
7:40 AM Thu, Sep 30, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat  Email
Illustrations: Above, Clarke Flowers sits on a largely residential stretch of Hope Street, in Providence; below, a closer view of the 1890s shop; neighbors confront Schartner Farms at meeting; plan of proposed Brewed Awakenings; rendering of Brewed Awakenings; a......
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8:10 AM Wed, Sep 29, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Thanks to Audun Engh for sending this timely news on a hotel's burning popularity in Las Vegas! Eye candy? Not! Skin cancer, and pronto! The design is by Rafael Vinoly, known in Providence for the poopcatcher windows on his Watson......
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9:15 PM Tue, Sep 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Here's an essay of great panache by the London Evening Standard's Simon Jenkins, Britain's premier architecture critic (leaving aside Bonny Prince Charles). He discusses the implications of the demolition of a horrid chunk of estate housing (Brit for public housing).......
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9:02 PM Tue, Sep 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Here is a link to a paper delivered recently in Istanbul, at the International Planning History Society Conference, in July. It's a large collection of photographs, mainly, of magnificent and at times zany old architecture, much of it the work......
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8:25 PM Tue, Sep 28, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Nah. Just thinking outside the box. Clarke Flowers seems to have dodged a bullet for now, at least the dear old building has. The city's planning bureaucracy recommended against granting a developer, Schartner Farms, a variance to knock down......
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10:02 PM Mon, Sep 27, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
This fascinating essay describes the history of the empty lot next to the Providence Arcade, where developers (including the Arcade's owner) had planned to erect the tallest building in Rhode Island. Announced in 2005 to considerable fanfare, the One......
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8:25 AM Thu, Sep 23, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, the facade of the former Providence National Bank from atop the new Hampton Inn; below, the facade, with the side of the Arcade visible to its right, and the late Custom House Tavern at left; the facade......
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1:13 PM Wed, Sep 22, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustration: View of the rear of the Providence National Bank facade on Weybosset Street * * * Nancy Austin's fine exhibit at the Providence Athenaeum, which was the subject of last week's column, sparked in me the desire to......
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8:08 AM Thu, Sep 16, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, the Merchants Exchange, designed in 1856 by Thomas Tefft, was never built; below, the Roman Coliseum; Nancy Austin at the Athenaeum; Thomas Tefft; the proposed One Ten Westminster project; the Providence National Bank (Westminster facade); its surviving......
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3:13 PM Wed, Sep 15, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
A fine new exhibit at the Providence Athenaeum revolves around a newly rediscovered photograph, circa 1859, of the Roman Coliseum and features another round building - unbuilt - the Merchants Exchange proposed in 1856 by Providence architect Thomas Tefft......
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9:52 PM Sun, Sep 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: The bridge design by Route 195 Relocation Project design consultant Bill Warner that has come under attack (click to enlarge); the Pont des Arts, in Paris, that inspired Warner's design; image of the project area * * *......
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4:28 PM Sun, Sep 12, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The photo above is one of a dozen or more recording the construction of the Providence Journal Building on Fountain Street, in 1933. The collection decorates a back staircase of the Journal. This photo shows early work on the......
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10:19 AM Tue, Sep 07, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, the Coliseum in Rome; below, Thomas Tefft's Tully Bowen House; Tefft's 1848 Union Passenger Depot, burned in 1896 * * * A five-foot-wide photograph of the Coliseum in Rome was recently discovered in an attic crawl space......
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9:06 PM Mon, Sep 06, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
For those readers in the BosProv corridor, finding a broadcast of "Make No Little Plans: Daniel Burnham and the American City" may be difficult. I previewed the broadcast in my last blog post, noting its "national" premier. Apparently, national does......
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9:32 AM Sun, Sep 05, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Until I read this short advance (via Kristen Richards' Archnewsnow.com), I assumed that the PBS special on Daniel Burnham that premiers Monday evening would be yet another modernist attempt to steal a great traditionalist master into the modernist cause.......
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8:16 AM Thu, Sep 02, 2010 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustrations: Above, Scene from a 1956 version of the novel 1984 (1949); below, Cole Porter; George Orwell; an example of Bausünden in Germany * * * The world has gone mad today And good's bad today, And black's white......
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