Architecture Here and There

Column: Beauty and Yale at New Haven + Span spin

12:25 PM Thu, Nov 25, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, the Yale campus and downtown New Haven beyond, from Art and Architecture Building; below, example of James Gamble Rogers's Collegiate Gothic at Yale (Harkness Tower); New Haven settlement; Providence settlement; New Haven Green; yard behind Skull &......

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 Tags  Brown University   ICA & CA   Michael Tyrrell   New Haven CT   Patrick Pinnell   Providence RI   Robert A.M. Stern   Yale University  

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Coming up: Later this morning, New Haven passage

7:46 AM Thu, Nov 25, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

And "Span spin," the continuing flap over the pedestrian-bridge contest. Your intrepid reporter gets his innings, but not until the end of a column about the ICA & CA's recent tour of New Haven and the campus of Yale University......

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 Tags  Brown   ICA & CA   New Haven CT   Pedestrian Bridge   Providence RI   Yale  

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Column: Karl Junker's Junkerhaus: Kidnapped!

7:49 AM Thu, Nov 18, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, The Junkerhaus was completed in 1891, in Lemgo (Wikipedia), Germany. Below, inside the Junkerhaus (lippe2web.eu); Karl Junker and model of the Junkerhaus; the Fleur de lys Studio (1887), in Providence; Hans Prinzhorn, German scholar and art collector;......

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 Tags  Architecture   Germany   Hans Prinzhorn   Insanity   John Ruskin   Junkerhaus   Karl Junker   Lemgo   Louis Sullivan   Modernism  

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Coming up: Kidnapped!

10:55 PM Wed, Nov 17, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Kidnapped? Yes. Read tomorrow's column, which you'll be able to do in just over an hour - if you are not first kidnapped yourself.......

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 Tags  Architecture   Deprogramming   Germany   Junkerhaus   Karl Junker   Modernism  

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Column: Fishy foot-bridge contest in Providence

5:57 PM Thu, Nov 11, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, a finalist in the Providence foot-bridge contest; below, the original Art Bridge design by Bill Warner; the Pont des Arts in Paris; design No. 8 among the 11 competition finalists * * * In my July 29......

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 Tags  3six0   architecture   Bill Warner   competition   Friedrich St. Florian   modernism   Providence RI  

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Simon Jenkins nails it broadly . . . but?

4:24 PM Tue, Nov 09, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

William Logsdail's painting "Bank and the Royal Exchange" (1887) * * * Simon Jenkins, a critic at the UK's Guardian, has another masterful broad look at the history of architecture and development this past century. His essay, "They saved......

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 Tags  Architecture   London   Modernism   Simon Jenkins   Victorian   Victorian Society  

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Coming up: A bridge too far out

8:16 AM Mon, Nov 08, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By David Brussat    Email

The finalists for the pedestrian bridge to span the Providence River along the piers that now carry the abandoned Route 195 slantwise across the river (see image at left) have been chosen and are displayed publicly for the whole of......

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Oops! A derisive moniker cries out for its building

11:48 AM Fri, Nov 05, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (17)
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, the Granoff Creative Arts Center as it nears completion on Angell Street, on the Brown University campus in Providence; below, same damn thing. * * * My apologies to all those who thought that the image of......

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 Tags  Architecture   Brown University   Granoff Creative Arts Center   Modernism   Providence RI  

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Keynote speech at the first Bulfinch Awards

8:20 PM Thu, Nov 04, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (3)
By David Brussat    Email

[ICA & CA New England Chapter President] John [Margolis] kindly asked me to say a few words about Charles Bulfinch, the Bulfinch awards, their purpose, and the purpose of the ICA & CA, nationally and through the New England chapter.......

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 Tags  Andres Duany   Architecture   Boston   Bulfinch Awards   Charles Bulfinch   ICA & CA   Massachusetts State House   Modernism   Pritzker Prize   Steven Semes  

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Speech: Bulfinch keynote to end up here

8:36 AM Thu, Nov 04, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

I'll soon be posting last night's Bulfinch Awards keynote address, delivered straight from this text, by yours truly at the Massachusetts State House.......

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Column: Why ugly buildings get stupid names

7:46 AM Thu, Nov 04, 2010 | Permalink | Write a comment
By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, This is London? Its skyline-to-be, with the Shard, Gherkin and Cheesegrater at center right; below (pictures to come) * * * Among the perks of architecture criticism is the assignation of derisive monikers to ugly modernist buildings.......

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 Tags  Bank of America Building   Evening Standard   Johnson & Wales   Kieran Long   London   Providence RI   Rafael Vinoly  

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Coming up: Give us your derisive moniker

11:54 PM Wed, Nov 03, 2010 | Permalink | Comments (1)
By David Brussat    Email

Tomorrow's column, upcoming in less than ten minutes, concludes with a call for entries in the "Derisive Moniker" contest for the Granoff Creative Arts Center, a Brown University building nearly complete on Angell Street. The contest is preceded by......

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 Tags  Architecture   Brown University   Granoff Creative Arts Center   Nicknames for Buildings   Providence RI  

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