Here’s an updated version of the original blog from yesterday with the Carpionato design from 2006 added. I will soon post again with two images of this design, accompanied by my original column about it.
Proposed design for Parcel 12 hotel, from 2006, by the Carpionato Group.
A new proposal has arisen for Parcel 12, the triangular Capital Center District land at the northeast corner of Kennedy Plaza that I’ve long called Bad Sculpture Park, in honor of its cast of uninspiring works of art. The Journal’s story today notes that hotels on that land (separated by Memorial Boulevard and the Woonasquatucket River from Capital Center itself) have been proposed before.
The Journal story, “Developer envisions hotel on triangular lot,” by Paul Grimaldi, notes two earlier proposals, by Joseph Paolino and then by Carpionato Properties, adding that “[t]he site’s limitations were the main reason neither of those proposals got built.” He was referring to its shape and the fact that it’s filled land with a high water table.
Perhaps that’s true, but it should not be forgotten that the second proposal’s traditional architecture – a…
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