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Coming up: Don't set Ike a-spinnin' in his grave

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By David Brussat    Email

Thursday's column will be about the counterproposals generated by a countercompetition generated by the official decision to choose Frank Gehry to design a memorial to Dwight D. Eisenhower. Can anything more silly and undignified be imagined? But in fact,......

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 Tags  Alaska   Capitol   David Brussat   Design Competition   Eisenhower Memorial   Marianne Casuto   Pritzker Prize   Thom Mayne  

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Blast from the past: The Dreyfus Hotel story

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By David Brussat    Email

Some readers might have attended the ribbon-cutting at the Mercantile Block yesterday. I have a yen to reprint my column about AS220's renovation of its next-door neighbor, the Dreyfus Hotel. Here is that column, "Artful restoration of the Dreyfus Hotel,"......

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 Tags  Architecture   Art   AS220   Dreyfus Hotel   Lucie Searle   Mercantile Block   Preservation   Providence RI  

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