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Column: Bulfinch Awards slow architect's spin

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, the Pavilion in the Park, a winner of the Bulfinch Awards, is outside of Boston. Below, Charles Bulfinch (1763-1844), painted at age 23 by Mather Brown; the Massachusetts State House; Grand Staircase of State House; its Doric......

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 Tags  Architecture   Bulfinch Awards   Charles Bulfinch   Classicism   ICA & CA   Massachusetts State House   Modernism   New England chapter  

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Coming up: Bulfinch twirling more gently these days

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, this dusk frontal shot of Pavilion in the Park, by Ivan Bereznicki, was selected as the iconic image of the inaugural Bulfinch Awards. Another version is below, with his citation, along with a representative photo for each......

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 Tags  Architecture   Bulfinch Awards   Charles Bulfinch   Classicism   Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America   Massashusetts State House   New England  

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Column: Ralph Lauren beautifies Manhattan

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Polo Ralph Lauren's new flagship store, in New York, and the building it replaced (inset). Below, the Rhinelander Mansion; the modernist building torn down to make way for the new Ralph Lauren flagship; the McKim, Mead & White......

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 Tags  A Fine Blog   Architecture   Christopher Gray   CurbedNY   Modernism   New York   Preservation   Ralph Lauren   Weddle Gilmore  

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Coming up: Bring polo to Providence

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By David Brussat    Email

Tomorrow's column is about the architecture of Polo Ralph Lauren, not how Providence managed to boot the opportunity to bring the sport of gentlemen - polo - into the shadow of the State House. Nor is about other aspects......

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 Tags  Architecture   Department Stores   Madison Avenue   Marketing   New York   Polo   Ralph Lauren  

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Blast from the past: East Side, West Side

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: Statue of Roger Williams erected at Prospect Terrace in 1939. No pictoral record of Williams's appearance has come down to us. (Photo by Richard Benjamin); below, George Whitfield, British preacher who visited Rhode Island during an American swing......

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 Tags  History   Providence RI   Religious Freedom   Rhode Island   Roger Williams   Soul Liberty  

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Blast from the past: Being nice to Beneficent House

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By David Brussat    Email

Thursday, November 8, 2007 Illustration: Round Top Church and Beneficent House (Courtesy of Beneficent House) Beneficent House, the apartment building run by the Beneficent Congregational Church on Weybosset Street, in Providence, celebrated its 40th anniversary on Sunday. In 1963, as......

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 Tags  Architecture   Beneficent Congregational Church   Beneficent House   Modernism   Paul Rudolph   Providence RI  

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Column: When Round Top was revolutionary

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Providence, circa 1762, as seen looking west from College Hill across Weybosset Bridge to the West Side, now downtown. Drawn by Henry A. Barker in 1914; from "Civic and Architectural Development of Providence" (1957) by John Hutchins......

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 Tags  Beneficent Congregational Church   Great Awakening   History   Providence RI   Religion   Rhode Island   Round Top  

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Sermon on a well-turned ankle

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By David Brussat    Email

The new minister at Grace Church, in downtown Providence, soon after his installation, shows that he didn't spend time in Paris for nothing.......

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 Tags  Downtown   Grace Church   Paris   Providence RI  

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Coming up: 257th anniversary of Beneficent's split

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By David Brussat    Email

Beneficent Congregational Church celebrates the 200th anniversary of Round Top, a totally memorable meeting house whose ambitious dome and portico (added decades after the original church was built in 1810) makes some in the congregation feel a tad sheepish......

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 Tags  Architecture   Beneficent Congregational Church   History   Providence RI   Round Top  

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How much is that artist in the window?

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By David Brussat    Email

On the way to lunch my friend Robert Cocroft needed a key copied so we popped into the new Clark the Locksmith in AS220's nearly complete renovation of the Merchants Block, on Washington Street. Clark had been moved all the......

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 Tags  Architecture   Artist   AS220   Clark the Locksmith   Preservation   Providence RI  

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Glorious Gloria Dei

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By David Brussat    Email

A couple of weekends ago my son Billy (16 mos.) and I adventured to Gloria Dei Lutheran Church, across the street from Providence Place mall and in back of the Masonic Temple (incomplete and stood empty for 75 years, now......

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 Tags  Architecture   Gloria Dei Lutheran Church   Providence RI  

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Column: iBehold the iHouse in the iWoods

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, floor plan of proposed Steve Jobs house as spoofed by Snowjogg (click to enlarge); below, 1926 Jackling Mansion to be demolished by Jobs; Daniel Jackling; Steve Jobs; site plan for Jobs house; larger scale site plan for......

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 Tags  Architecture   Bryan Gardiner   Daniel Jackling   gizmodo.com   Preservation   Steve Jobs  

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Coming up: The iPhone of MacMansions?

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By David Brussat    Email

Your intrepid correspondent loves his MacMini and his iPod, and has nothing but respect for the great entrepreneur who, um, thought them up. Nevertheless, it's hard to get beyond the image of Steve Jobs pulling on his chin as......

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 Tags  Apple   Bryan Gardiner   Daniel Jackling   gizmodo.com   McMansion   Preservation   Steve Jobs  

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