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Column: Democracy and the flower shop

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Clarke Flowers   Greater City: Providence   Jef Nickerson   Preservation   Property Rights   Providence RI   Schartner Farms   Zoning  

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Skin candy?

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Audun Engh   Las Vegas   Modernism   Vdara Hotel  

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Mind candy

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Aylesbury Estate   Demolition   London   Modernism   Simon Jenkins  

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Eye candy

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Clough William-Ellis   International Planning History Society  

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Coming up: How about a drive-thru flower shop?

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Clarke Flowers   Preservation   Providence RI   Schartner Farms  

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Lots in Limbo - the One Ten Westminter

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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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 Tags  Architecture   Brown University   Lots in Limbo   One Ten Westminster   Providence RI  

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