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Penance for shining 'sunlight' on making sausage

7:14 PM Thu, Jan 27, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

" class="mt-image-left" style="float: left; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" />Some readers will note that "Behind closed doors at the Ross jury" did not appear on this blog for long. I took it down at the request of the board......

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Tags David Brussat Dr. Downtown ICA & CA Ross Awards Stuart Blazer

In search of Henry Hope Reed

11:17 PM Tue, Jan 25, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

On my way home from work this evening, NPR broadcast a report that a Cooper's hawk had been discovered in the rotunda of the Main Reading Room of the Library of Congress, across the street from the Capitol in......

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Tags Cooper's Hawk Henry Hope Reed ICA & CA Library of Congress Washington DC

Coming up: Behind closed doors at the Arthur Ross awards

10:46 PM Tue, Jan 25, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

The 2011 Arthur Ross jury, left to right: Your redoubtable correspondent; Natalie Jacobs; Tim Barber; Bill Harrison (jury foreman); Peter Pennoyer (ICA & CA board chairman); Janet Ross; Andrew Skurman; Lyn Muse; Seth Weine (competition administrator); and Karen Bechtel......

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Tags Arthur Ross Awards David Brussat Henry Hope Reed Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America New York

Another critic wants to have classicism's cake and eat it too

3:34 PM Sun, Jan 23, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

The Washington Post's longtime architecture critic Roger K. Lewis takes a stab at why Palladio's influence has been so pervasive over the centuries (his Villa Rotonda is above). At least he doesn't insist that Palladio was really a modernist.......

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Tags Palladio Roger Lewis Villa Rotondo Washington Post

Column: Yachting clubhouse will rise and shine

7:00 AM Thu, Jan 20, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Above, the Edgewood Yacht Club, in Cranston, survived Hurricane Carol in 1954; below, the fire it did not survive; the George C. Arnold Building, on Washington Street in downtown Providence, after the fire; the Arnold in better days;......

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Tags Arnold Building Bernard Tschumi Cranston RI David Brussat Edgewood Yacht Club Fire New York Magazine Pat Cortellessa Providence RI RIPTA Robert A.M. Stern

Coming up: Four columns for the price of one

10:40 PM Tue, Jan 18, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Four subjects pawed the pavement at the starting line. And they're off! Streaking ahead, all four topics approach the finishing line in a dead heat. They all qualify to appear in this week's column, though not all may be the......

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Tags Arnold Building Cartoon David Brussat Disney Edgewood Yacht Club Goofy New York Magazine Robert A.M. Stern

Architects say the darndest things

9:33 PM Mon, Jan 17, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

John Massengale links readers of his blog Veritas et Venustas to a conversation published in the latest issue of New York Magazine between several architects. The strangest things get said, and Bob Stern (classicist, 2010 Driehaus laureate, dean of......

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Tags Architecture David Brussat Grand Central Modernism New York New York Magazine Robert A.M. Stern Tschumi Whitney Museum

Column: Little Red School and the Big Bad Wolf

8:44 AM Thu, Jan 13, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Illustrations: Above, the Grove Street School just after illegal demolition was halted in 2007. Below, the school before demolition; the school seen from Broadway; the stop-work order; the school with its tarp; inside the school; Michael Tarro; the Rhode......

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Tags David Brussat Federal Hill Grove Street School Michael A. Tarro Providence Preservation Society Providence RI West Broadway Neighborhood Association

Coming up: Save the Grove Street School

9:58 PM Tue, Jan 11, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

The Grove Street School in 2003, courtesy of ArtInRuins.com * * * You've got to wonder whether something other than pure cussedness motivates the Tarro family's crusade against the Grove Street School. The building is a perfect example of......

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Tags David Brussat Grove Street School Providence Preservation Society Providence RI West Broadway Neighborhood Association

New roses and raspberries

4:03 PM Sun, Jan 09, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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By David Brussat

Inevitably, the opportunity to post new roses and raspberries presents itself many months before the next official opportunity (that is, next January for this year's blessings and blotches of architecture in Providence and vicinity). An e-mail from an official......

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Tags Dr. Downtown Providence RI RIPTA Roses and Raspberries

We need better bus service not new streetcars

3:40 PM Sun, Jan 09, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Here's some good thinking about how to make Rhode Island buses more efficient. We don't need a new streetcar line, we need buses that run predictably and on time. And we all don't have a schedule in our pockets.......

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Tags Bus David Brussat Providence RI Rhode Island Future RIPTA Streetcar

Here comes the Scottish Poundbury

2:47 PM Sun, Jan 09, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Here comes the Scottish Poundbury, and inevitably here comes the pounding it will take for establishing rules to maintain its beauty. Note that this place doesn't exist yet, and nobody will have these rules imposed upon him after he......

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Tags Architecture David Brussat Prince Charles Scotland Scotsman

Column: Roses and raspberries for 2010

7:21 AM Thu, Jan 06, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Dr. Downtown scans the horizon of Providence in vain, or almost in vain, for reasons to be optimistic about the future of the beauty of Providence. Aha! There, about 358 miles to the south, is a sight sure to......

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Tags 2010 Architecture David Brussat Dr. Downtown Providence RI Rhode Island

Dildo Scorpion + Rentfree, or Studio WhatsInanaMe?

9:57 PM Wed, Jan 05, 2011 | Permalink |

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By David Brussat

Diller Scofidio + Renfro's corporate handle sounds better as Dildo Scorpion + Rentfree. The Boston architecture firm would get many more edgy contracts if it were to adopt my proposed handle. Sometimes, if I'm feeling nasty, I replace Scorpion with......

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Tags Architectural Record Architecture Diller Scofidio + Renfro Firm Names Martin Filler

Coming up: Dr. Downtown's roses and raspberries

7:58 AM Wed, Jan 05, 2011 | Permalink | Write a

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This year's crop of roses for Providence was ... but the doctor gets ahead of himself. Why let the cats out of the bag? But he will hint, if he can find an illustration to abet the game. .........

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Tags Architecture Ashton Viaduct Bridges Cumberland RI Dr. Downtown Providence RI Rhode Island

Architecture Here and There

January 2011 Archives

Penance for shining 'sunlight' on making sausage

In search of Henry Hope Reed

Coming up: Behind closed doors at the Arthur Ross awards

Another critic wants to have classicism's cake and eat it too

Column: Yachting clubhouse will rise and shine

Coming up: Four columns for the price of one

Architects say the darndest things

Column: Little Red School and the Big Bad Wolf

Coming up: Save the Grove Street School

New roses and raspberries

We need better bus service not new streetcars

Here comes the Scottish Poundbury

Column: Roses and raspberries for 2010

Dildo Scorpion + Rentfree, or Studio WhatsInanaMe?

Coming up: Dr. Downtown's roses and raspberries

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