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Column: There's a 'middle way' in architecture

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, Leon Krier sums up the choices facing architecture in the absence of a "middle way." [From "Architecture: Choice or Fate," by Leon Krier (1998)]; below, Frank Gehry's Beekman Tower; proposed U.S. embassy in London; rival proposal by......

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 Tags  April Fool's Day   Architecture   Beekman Tower   Classicism   David Brussat   Frank Gehry   Modernism   Thom Mayne   U.S. Embassy London  

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Coming up: Can't we all just get along, you fools?

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By David Brussat    Email

Weighing in again on the Beekman Tower and the potential for compromise between modernism and tradition in architecture. More about what this implies, and more about whether it is likely. More about whether a change of heart might be in......

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 Tags  Architecture   Beekman Tower   Classicism   David Brussat   Frank Gehry   Modernism   Thom Mayne   U.S. Embassy in London  

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Column: Let Hope Street be Hope Street

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, this coffee house was to replace Clarke Flowers, which was to be razed, on Hope Street. Below, Clarke Flowers days ago; Clarke Flowers in happier days; Brewed Awakenings design submitted with application that was withdrawn last fall;......

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 Tags  Architecture   Brewed Awakening   Clarke Flower Shop   David Brussat   David Levesque   Planning   Preservation   Providence RI   Schartner Farms   Zoning  

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Coming up: The latest on the Clarke Flower Shop

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By David Brussat    Email

It's amazing how many of the points I wanted to make in tomorrow's column about Hope Street and saving the Clarke Flower Shop are identical to ones I made in my column on the same subject last Sept. 30,......

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 Tags  Brewed Awakening   Clarke Flower Shop   David Brussat   David Levesque   Hope Street   Preservation   Providence RI   Urbanism  

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Column: A modernist building I actually like

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Frank Gehry designed this building in New York; skyline viewed from east with Beekman Tower at center, Woolworth Building to its left; view looking down from inside tower; close-up view of facade; very close-up view of facade; several......

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 Tags  Architecture   Beekman Tower   Bernini   Bruce Ratner   Dancing House   David Brussat   Frank Gehry   James Gardner   Modernism   New York   New York by Frank Gehry   Nicolai Ouroussoff   Paul Goldberger  

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Coming up: What am I smoking?

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By David Brussat    Email

Last week readers encountered my Thursday column cold turkey, with no "Coming up" to warn them of the topic. This week there's a good reason to warn sensitive readers that the topic of my column on Thursday might be upsetting......

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 Tags  Architecture   David Brussat   Modernism   New York  

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The 2011 Arthur Ross Awards have been announced

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By David Brussat    Email

The Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America - lately renamed the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art - has announced the winners of the 30th annual Arthur Ross Awards. Winners in five categories and a board honoree will be......

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 Tags  Architecture   Arthur Ross Awards   Classical Architecture   David Brussat   Henry Hope Reed   ICA & CA   New York  

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Does Christopher Gray agree with Steven Semes?

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By David Brussat    Email

Photographs by David Brussat Christopher Gray's latest "Streetscapes" column in the New York Times opens with the declaration that "Ralph Lauren's new store at Madison Avenue and 72nd Street is a startling anchor to what was once one of......

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 Tags  Christopher Gray   New York NY   New York Times   Ralph Lauren   Steven Semes   Streetscapes  

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Column: Cook's tour of monumental progeny

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: The World Athletes Monument is on Peachtree Street, in Atlanta (National Monuments Foundation); the monument, with Peachtree Street heading south; the rest of the illustrations are of this monument, and eventually, beyond the conclusion of the text, the......

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 Tags  Atlanta GA   David Brussat   Millennium Gate   National Monuments Foundation   Paul Goldberger   Prince Charles   Rodney Mims Cook Jr.   The New Yorker   World Athletes Monument  

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Correction: Meeting on drive-thru monster is NEXT Wednesday

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By David Brussat    Email

The proposal to demolish beloved Clarke's Flowers and replace its quaint building and greenhouse with a drive-thru coffee shop raises its ugly head again NEXT Wednesday, March 16. Schartner Farms, the owner, will appear at a Zoning Board of......

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 Tags  Architecture   Clarke's Flowers   Preservation   Preserve Hope Street   Providence RI   Schartner Farms  

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Nikos Salingaros: Secrets of architecture's biology

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By David Brussat    Email

Newly out in the United States is Nikos Salingaros's new book, Twelve Lectures on Architecture, originally published in (I think) Greece last year. I've written several columns about Salingaros's thinking, here, here and here, which has to do with how......

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 Tags  Architecture   Biology   Biophilia   David Brussat   Fractals   Modernism   Nikos Salingaros   Twelve Lectures on Architecture  

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Drive-Thru monster threatens Hope Street again

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By David Brussat    Email

The proposal to demolish beloved Clarke's Flowers and replace its quaint building and greenhouse with a drive-thru coffee shop raises its ugly head again this Wednesday, March 16. Schartner Farms, the owner, will appear at a Zoning Board of......

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 Tags  Architecture   Clarke's Flowers   David Brussat   Preservation   Preserve Hope Street   Providence RI   Schartner Farms  

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Column: My pleasant interlude at the Dacha

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By David Brussat    Email

Illustrations: Above, the Dacha at Rodney Mims Cook Jr.'s estate, Alexandra Park, in Atlanta; below, the Margaret Mitchell House and Museum; Peggy Mitchell with her first husband, Berrien "Red" Upshaw; Cook house; grand staircase; living room; geese at Alexandra......

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 Tags  Atlanta GA   Dacha   David Brussat   Paul Goldberger   Paws   Prince Charles   Rodney Mims Cook Jr.   Shutze Awards   William Trammell Shutze  

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Coming up: Not quite monumental in Atlanta, but ...

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By David Brussat    Email

Atlanta has offered up some intriguing experiences above and beyond (or maybe it is below and beneath) its architecture. I'm sure it is both. But staying at the Dacha as the guest of a descendant of two Atlanta mayors, on......

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 Tags  Atlanta GA   Dacha   David Brussat   Gone With the Wind   Paws   Philip Trammell Shutze   Rodney Mims Cook   Shutze Awards  

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