Bad Scupture Park Hotel?

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.

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Proposed design for Parcel 12 hotel, from 2006, by the Carpionato Group. 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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About David Brussat

This blog was begun in 2009 as a feature of the Providence Journal, where I was on the editorial board and wrote a weekly column of architecture criticism for three decades. Architecture Here and There fights the style wars for classical architecture and against modern architecture, no holds barred. History Press asked me to write and in August 2017 published my first book, "Lost Providence." I am now writing my second book. My freelance writing on architecture and other topics addresses issues of design and culture locally and globally. I am a member of the board of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, which bestowed an Arthur Ross Award on me in 2002. I work from Providence, R.I., where I live with my wife Victoria, my son Billy and our cat Gato. If you would like to employ my writing and editing to improve your work, please email me at my consultancy, dbrussat@gmail.com, or call 401.351.0457. Testimonial: "Your work is so wonderful - you now enter my mind and write what I would have written." - Nikos Salingaros, mathematician at the University of Texas, architectural theorist and author of many books.
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