Architecture Here and There

Column: The Pritzker Prize jury chases its tail

7:00 AM Thu, Jul 28, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (11)
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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 Tags  Aga Khan Award   Architecture   David Brussat   Driehaus Prize   Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture   Malcolm Millais   Pritzker Prize   Sarah Goldhagen   Souto de Moura   The New Republic  

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Coming up: Any Porto in a Pritzker storm

10:02 AM Wed, Jul 27, 2011 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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 Tags  Architecture   David Brussat   Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture   Malcolm Millais   Pritzker Prize   Souto de Moura  

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Homage to Cy Twombly

10:37 PM Sat, Jul 23, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (3)
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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 Tags  Art   Art Criticism   Cy Twombly   David Brussat   Modern Art   Pollack   Rauchenberg  

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

12:28 PM Thu, Jul 21, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (3)
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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 Tags  Architecture   Art   Christopher Hawthorne   David Brussat   Education   Los Angeles   Modernism  

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Column: Save the old Shaare Zedek temple

7:00 AM Thu, Jul 21, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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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 Tags  Architecture   Broad Street   Carrie Marsh   David Brussat   Jewish Architecture   Modern Architecture   Percival Goodman   Preservation   Providence RI   Shaare Zedek   Temple Beth-El  

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Coming up: Architecture and Judaism

9:35 PM Tue, Jul 19, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (1)
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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 Tags  Architecture   Congregation Shaare Zedek   David Brussat   Judaism   Providence RI   Religion   Temple Beth-El  

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

7:48 PM Sun, Jul 17, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (4)
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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 Tags  Architecture   BD Online   China   Engineering   Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture   Malcolm Millais   Opera House   Zaha Hadid  

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Column: Ascent into the attic of Providence

7:00 AM Thu, Jul 14, 2011 | Permalink | Comments (2)
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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 Tags  Archive   David Brussat   History   Mayor Taveras   Paul Campbell   Providence Archives   Providence City Hall   Providence RI  

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

9:22 PM Thu, Jul 07, 2011 | Permalink | Write a comment
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

7:00 AM Thu, Jul 07, 2011 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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 Tags  Christopher Hawthorne   David Brussat   Doris Duke   Gateway Center   Maya Lin   Midnight in Paris   Newport RI   Paris   Paul Goldberger   Queen Anne Square   Woody Allen  

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Coming up: Shut down Newport's 'Gateway'

11:19 AM Wed, Jul 06, 2011 | Permalink | Write a comment
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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 Tags  David Brussat   Friedrich St. Florian   Gateway Visitors Center   Mary Shepard   Maya Lin   Midnight in Paris   Newport Collaborative   Newport RI   Paris   Queen Anne Square  

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