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May 2011 Archives
8:04 PM Tue, May 31, 2011 | Permalink |
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Can't really say. Jim Egan, who runs the Newport Tower Museum, on Mill Street across from the tower in Touro Park, has studied the origins of the tower that has variously been attributed to the Vikings, the Knights Templar,......
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7:00 AM Thu, May 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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Above: Staff of McKim, Mead & White celebrate winning Rhode Island State House job, in 1892. (Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, Columbia University) * * * Charles Follen McKim, William Rutherford Mead and Stanford White * * *......
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9:22 PM Tue, May 24, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
If you count the illustrations in Triumvirate you find that the early work of McKim, Mead & White is favored by the author, Mosette Broderick. She disses their neoclassical work, again and again. Yes, her book is a rollicking tale......
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9:35 PM Mon, May 23, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
At my request, Steven Semes has sent me a download of his lecture at Rosecliff, in Newport, on Saturday, May 19. The slides along with his talk are not pictured but are listed and described. If you missed the lecture......
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7:00 AM Thu, May 19, 2011 | Permalink |
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Above: Newport's Rosecliff, completed in 1902, was designed by Stanford White. (filipdemuinck-kristelpardon.blogspot.com) * * * Grand Trianon, at Versaille, the model for Rosecliff * * * Modeled after Trianon, this orangerie near Boston won a Bulfinch Award in 2010......
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10:57 PM Wed, May 18, 2011 | Permalink |
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As Veterans Memorial Auditorium rolls out its renovation, it seeks to broaden its appeal. No one who luxuriates in the Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra and its classical programs, however, will agree that there is any need for such an......
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11:35 PM Tue, May 17, 2011 | Permalink |
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Thursday's column will invite readers to join their eager correspondent at one of America's finest houses, Rosecliff, in Newport, to hear a free lecture by Steven Semes, author of the excellent Future of the Past. The book unveils a......
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9:02 PM Thu, May 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Newport doesn't need to hear Steven Semes and his preservationist wisdom as much as Providence does. Newport has done a much better job than Providence preserving its historic places. Newport is less than an hour's drive from Providence. C'mon......
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7:00 AM Thu, May 12, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Above: These guild houses at Antwerp were almost 300 years old when Thackeray visited (From www.traBel.com). * * * William Makepeace Thackeray * * * Rotterdam in Thackeray's time * * * Rotterdam's New Bath Hotel in Thackeray's time......
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11:16 PM Tue, May 10, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
(image pending) A doff of the critical cap to William Makepeace Thackeray, who has assisted in Thursday's upcoming column. As a lure to its consumption by readers, I need only reprint the last passages of "Notes of a Week's Holiday,"......
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11:34 AM Mon, May 09, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Sent to me by Michael Franck and Art Lohsen, this fine illustration is a memento of their winning this year's Ross Award for Architecture, on whose jury I sat. It was mostly because of their entry in another competition......
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2:59 PM Sun, May 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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Tiverton, R.I., plans to replace its charming little Essex Library with an enchanting new edifice that does credit to the ambition of the library's leadership and the town's vision of its future. The design is by Donald Powers Architects,......
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2:56 PM Sat, May 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The cartoon above is by architectural cartoonist Louis Hellman, whose blog is here. My thanks, on behalf of us all, to Gary Brewer, of Robert A.M. Stern, for posting on TradArch this chart by which we may all finally......
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9:17 PM Thu, May 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The Washington Post's Katherine Salant peeked into the life and times of not quite starchitect Peter Eisenman (as author Salant seems to suggest) and discovered that he lives in a somewhat different style than he designs. Is anyone surprised? Except......
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6:46 AM Thu, May 05, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Above: Minoru Yamasaki next to model of New York; Twin Towers model stands near him * * * Sears Tower, in Chicago, is at center * * * The Burj Khafila, tallest (for now) in Dubai * * *......
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10:30 PM Tue, May 03, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The world thought that the demise of the Twin Towers might mean the demise of the skyscraper as a viable machine for living and working. Who wants to live in a building with a big target painted on its roof?......
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7:51 PM Sun, May 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
The New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art (ICAA, formerly ICA & CA) has just announced its call for entries in the 2011 Charles Bulfinch Awards, the second annual competition for the chapter, which was founded......
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5:48 PM Sun, May 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Mark your calendars for this Wednesday, May 4, and Wednesday, May 25. Two lectures sponsored by the New England chapter of the ICAA (formerly ICA & CA) will explore two regions of classical thought: millwork in the architecture of colonial......
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