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July 2011 Archives


Column: The Pritzker Prize jury chases its tail

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By David Brussat    Email

Above, Burgo Shop & Office Tower (2007), in Porto, Portugal (architecture-chiefly.blogspot.com) * * * Jean Nouvel's idea for French President Nicolas Sarkozy's Le Grand Paris * * * Richard Rogers's 2009 Chelsea Barracks proposal. Quinlan Terry's proposal is to......

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Coming up: Any Porto in a Pritzker storm

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By David Brussat    Email

The latest winner of the Pritzker Prize is architect Eduardo Souto de Moura, the second Portuguese to win - his mentor, Alviro Siza, won in 1992. Souto de Moura is a typical Pritzker winner - that is, most of......

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Homage to Cy Twombly

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By David Brussat    Email

Cy Twombly died the other day. His work, a well-known example of which is reprinted above, hangs proudly alongside Pollack and Rauchenberg. The Journal will run an obituary editorial memorializing his life and art. His life and his art......

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Scary high school in Los Angeles (Uh, yes, we love it!)

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By David Brussat    Email

Christopher Hawthorne, the architecture critic for the L.A. Times, went back to assess a recently built downtown high school two years after it opened in 2008. His reflections on the controversial design are published in Metropolis. Judge for yourself......

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Column: Save the old Shaare Zedek temple

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By David Brussat    Email

Above, the Shaare Zedek temple on Broad Street, in Providence, soon after its 1911 completion (Providence Public Library) * * * The Shaare Zedek temple a year ago * * * The Shaare Zedek temple on Monday * *......

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Coming up: Architecture and Judaism

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By David Brussat    Email

The day I wrote last week's column I was urged to write about the dangers facing the old Shaare Zedek temple on Broad Street. I slid into the column on the Providence archives a paragraph noting concerns about the......

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Zaha 'Ha Ha' Hadid's crumbling Chinese opera house

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By David Brussat    Email

Is there any reason to be surprised that a year after its opening, the roof is leaking, the walls are cracking and the windows are falling out of Zaha Hadid's $360 million opera house in the Chinese city of......

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Column: Ascent into the attic of Providence

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By David Brussat    Email

Above, archivist Paul Campbell shows where he found long-lost Providence charter. * * * City Hall at right. At left is Hotel Dorrance (1880) and a narrow, two-story building (1855) * * * Archival front office, with Exchange Place......

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Simon Jenkins on St. Pancras Hotel & Sir Geo. Gilbert Scott

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By David Brussat    Email

At first I thought this must be the author of The Architecture of Humanism, one of my favorite architectural treatises, written in 1914, but it turns out they are not only not the same man but not, apparently, related.......

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Column: Midnight in Paris - and Newport

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By David Brussat    Email

Above: An attractive streetscape in central Paris, circa 2003 (photo by David Brussat) * * * Rue de Rivoli, in Paris * * * Near the Paris Bourse, or stock market * * * Jardin de Luxembourg, ah! But......

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Coming up: Shut down Newport's 'Gateway'

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By David Brussat    Email

At left and below are two proposals to replace the Gateway, first by Newport Collaborative and second by Friedrich St. Florian - after his mall success but before he'd clinched the National World War II Memorial. Last week this......

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