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September 2011 Archives
9:44 AM Fri, Sep 30, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat  Email
Christine Franck has asked TradArch listers to respond to Ada Louise Huxtable's recent rant in the Wall Street Journal (where she is architecture critic). Almost a decade ago I wrote this about Huxtable's book "The Unreal America," which had been......
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7:00 AM Thu, Sep 29, 2011 | Permalink |
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The Biltmore, in Coral Gables, Fla., has the nation's largest hotel swimming pool. (Courtesy of the Coral Gables Biltmore) The photos below are also not from 1000 Ultimate Sights. At the end of column text below are five photographs......
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8:56 PM Tue, Sep 27, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Not long ago a publicist for The Lonely Planet group of travel literature wrote wondering whether I'd be interested in printing excerpts from 1000 Ultimate Sights, a new travel book that would be coming out in September. Send it......
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10:47 PM Mon, Sep 26, 2011 | Permalink |
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Never expected the terrified O to do service as a grace note! But here is a report from Audun Engh, of INTBAU, in Oslo, that will make you smile. The horrible project for a new high-rise Edvard Munch Museum in......
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10:05 PM Sun, Sep 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Well, not exactly, but here are a couple new shots of RAMSA's athletic center at Brown, work being overseen by Gary Brewer, who has sent his own shots to TradArch lately, referring to the brickwork as a "diapering" pattern. I......
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5:19 PM Sun, Sep 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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It may be purely coincidental, but amidst the run of an exhibit in which flying cars play a major role buzzing around the phallic towers of futurist cities, an actual flying car has just received FAA approval, and the......
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1:49 PM Sun, Sep 25, 2011 | Permalink |
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The photograph shows Wednesday night's speaker standing on the grave of founding modernist Le Corbusier. Is Malcolm Millais smiling? Is he about to kick the concrete tomb? He looks harmless enough. But his book "Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture"......
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8:32 PM Thu, Sep 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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A year ago I noticed graffiti on one of the backstair photographs recording the construction of the Journal back in the 1930s, only this was a rare instance of good graffiti. I had to blog it, and I did so......
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7:14 PM Thu, Sep 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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Here are a couple of shots I took this morning of the brickwork going up at Brown's Nelson Fitness Center, which is expected to be completed next March. Even though it's difficult to judge the architecture of a building at......
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7:00 AM Thu, Sep 22, 2011 | Permalink |
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View along Woonasquatucket River toward Waterplace Park on Dec. 31, 2009 (Journal photo by Sandor Bodo) * * * World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, in Chicago * * * Daniel Burnham, architect, planner, known for 1893 Exposition, Chicago Plan,......
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12:12 AM Wed, Sep 21, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Waterplace in 2000, before the counterattack of the modernists (Photo by Richard Benjamin) * * * Eons ago, your intrepid correspondent communicated through his alter ego, Dr. Downtown, in a manner that some might describe as over the top.......
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11:45 PM Tue, Sep 20, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Will the redevelopment of Providence's vacant Route 195 land model itself after the failure of the Capital Center. The latter, befuddled as it may be, is considered a success by Providence's design elite, and what is to be copied......
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7:00 AM Thu, Sep 15, 2011 | Permalink |
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"View of Industria," by Katherine Roy, pencil on paper and digital color, 2011. Click to enlarge. (David Winton Bell Gallery/Brown University) * * * List Art Building (1971), Brown University * * * John Hay Library (1910), Brown University......
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10:16 PM Wed, Sep 14, 2011 | Permalink |
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Tomorrow you will tour with me the exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery, in Providence, curated by Nathaniel Walker, of Brown, about the history of architecture's role in visions of the future, titled "Building Expectation." And there's only one......
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7:00 AM Thu, Sep 08, 2011 | Permalink |
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View of Ground Zero, including memorial, on July 27 (Journal archives) * * * One of six planning options gathered by Beyer Blinder Belle in 2002 * * * Peterson/Littenberg design submitted in 2003 LMDC "competition," in which it......
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7:46 PM Wed, Sep 07, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Sunday marks the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in New York, and you'd think that a decade would be enough time to substantially rebuild at Ground Zero. But only the memorial - "Reflecting Absence"......
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4:37 PM Tue, Sep 06, 2011 | Permalink |
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Jabba the Hutt's palace (or hut) is not in the exhibition but it's in this blog post * * * Nathaniel Walker, a doctoral candidate in architectural history at Brown University, and a good friend into the bargain, asks......
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10:03 PM Thu, Sep 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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The New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art will host a lecture on Wednesday, Sept. 28, in Boston, by Malcolm Millais, the British structural engineer whose most recent book is Exploding the Myths of Modern......
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7:00 AM Thu, Sep 01, 2011 | Permalink |
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By David Brussat Email
Illustration: "Modern Movement reality," by Louis Hellman: The legacy of founding modernist Le Corbusier (From Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Frances Lincoln Ltd., London, 2009) This week I have no original column so I reprint a column from......
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