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Coming up: Not nuttin'

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By David Brussat    Email

On vacation. No column coming up. Try next year.......

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 Tags  Architecture   Brussat   Squirrel  

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Christmas and redemption in St. Petersburg

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By David Brussat    Email

The civic center of Russia's old capital, St. Petersburg, was built some 300 years ago by Peter the Great in homage to the beauty of Old Europe. Readers of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky will easily recall weaving through the plots......

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 Tags  Architecture   Classicism   Modernism   Russia   St. Petersburg   UNESCO  

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Column: Stern finally wins his Driehaus Prize

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, three buildings by Robert A.M. Stern Architects (Courtesy of Notre Dame School of Architecture). Below, Robert A.M. Stern; cover of "New York 1880"; a house from Stern's postmodern period; Brooklyn Law School addition (1994); a RAMSA housing......

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 Tags  Architecture   Notre Dame School of Architecture; Richard H. Driehaus; Driehaus Prize   RAMSA   Robert A.M. Stern   Yale  

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Coming up: Stern's ship finally comes in

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By David Brussat    Email

Robert A.M. Stern's the classical architect who designed the building pictured at left. No, not the lovely tower in the forground (that's the cupola of Philadelphia's City Hall) but the shiny sheath behind it, the Comcast building. Thus, the winner......

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 Tags  Architecture   Comcast   Driehaus Prize   Notre Dame   Pritzker Prize   Robert A.M. Stern  

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Column: Building, climate and Original Green

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Plaza Mayor seen through collonade in Madrid; below, cover of The Original Green; Steve Mouzon; cover of Greening Modernism; two neighbors interacting via the house/porch/sidewalk continuum; Mouzon's "smart dwelling" for the Wall Street Journal; "hockey stick" climate......

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 Tags  Architecture   Carl Stein   Greening Modernism   Modernism   Steve Mouzon   The Original Green  

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Nathaniel Walker on Mayan Classicism

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration by Leonardo Berges * * * Nathaniel Walker is a classicist seeking his doctorate in architectural history at Brown University, which means his thoughts go against the flow. But he takes the flow seriously, and recognizes that among......

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 Tags  Architecture   Civilization   Classical   Mayan   Mayan Classicism   Nathaniel Walker  

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Pedestrian bridge update: We have a winna!

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By David Brussat    Email

Mayor Cicilline has chosen No. 10, designed by a Detroit firm, as the pedestrian bridge design that will be built to span two new public parks on either side of the Providence River. I've written two columns about this,......

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 Tags  3six0   Friedrich St. Florian   Pedestrian Bridge   Providence RI   Studio Providence  

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Coming up: "The Original Green": The review

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By David Brussat    Email

The photo above, of Portofino, I think, is one of many fine, lush, color shots sprinkled copiously throughout Steve Mouzon's book "The Original Green." It will be reviewed on Thursday. The review features a picture Steve shot in Madrid.......

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 Tags  Architecture   Carl Stein   Global Warming   Greening Modernism   Modernism   Stephen Mouzon   The Original Green  

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Separated at birth?

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By David Brussat    Email

I met Rodney Mims Cook Jr., impresario of the Millennium Gate in Atlanta, the day before I visited the house museum of Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind, which is on Peachtree Street in Atlanta's Midtown. On a......

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 Tags  Atlanta   Margaret Mitchell   Red Upshaw   Rodney Mims Cook   Separated at birth   Tom Wolfe  

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Column: Atlanta's bold new old buildings

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, the Millennium Gate at Atlantic Station, in Atlanta's Midtown; below, skyline of Atlanta from my Delta flight; Peachtree Street, with skywalk, another Portman innovation; my hotel, the Georgian Terrace, built in 1911; the Georgian Terrace's 1991 Portmanesque......

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 Tags  Architecture   Atlanta   Classicism   Georgian Terrace   ICA & CA   John Portman   Modernism   Philip Johnson   Philip Trammell Shutze   Robert A.M. Stern   Shutze Awards  

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Rodney Mims Cook's tour of Atlanta

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Rodney Cook Jr. and Tom Wolfe; below, the Prince of Wales's Monument * * * I actually took a fabulous tour of Atlanta not from Rodney Mims Cook Jr., whom I met atop his Millennium Gate, but......

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 Tags  Architecture   Atlanta   Classicism   Millennium Gate   Philip Trammell Shutze   Prince's Monument   Rodney Mims Cook  

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Coming up: Beauty and the beasts of Atlanta

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustration: The Millennium Gate in Atlanta * * * Your roving correspondent has just returned from Atlanta, where he sat on a blind jury - a truly blind jury, in this case - to judge entries for the Shutze......

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 Tags  Atlanta   Bulfinch Awards   Elizabeth Dowling   ICA & CA   Millennium Gate   Philip Trammell Shutze   Rodney Cook   Shutze Awards  

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SOS Paris!

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By David Brussat    Email

The crime pictured above could take place within Paris's 15th arrondisement. So much for "beyond the Peripherique." (Illustration courtesy of SOS Paris) * * * SOS Paris is an organization fighting plans by French President Sarkozy to ruin the......

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 Tags  Grand Paris   Herzog and de Meuron   Mary Ann Gallagher   Paris   Sarkozy   SOS Paris  

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Column: Holy Name's efflorescence of Florence

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Church of the Holy Name of Jesus, on Camp Street in Providence; below, photos of the church exterior and interior; house on Beaufort Street by Albert Harkness (beneath column text). Click the photos for a more intimate......

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 Tags  Albert Harkness   Architecture   Bob Gilbane   Church of the Holy Name of Jesus   Florence   Gilbane Inc.   Hindle & Wright   Modernism   Murphy   Providence RI   Rev. Joseph Santos   Roman Catholic Church   Rome  

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