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Monthly Archives: May 2016
How to keep Portland weird
Portland, Ore., is a city so satisfied with itself that it can afford to enjoy a TV show, Portlandia, that makes fun of its foibles. And of course, foibles are easily fobbed off. They are not actual problems. Most cities … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Humor, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Economics, Ed Glaeser, Housing, Jane Jacobs, Keep Portland Weird, Michael Mehaffy, Modern Architecture, Planetizen, Portland OR, Portlandia, Providence RI, Reaganomics, Real Estate, Seattle, Skyscrapers, Supply Side, Sustasis Foundation, Urban Growth Boundary
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Photos of downtown Boston
I was in Boston’s Financial District last Wednesday to attend a board meeting of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art, which met not, as usual, at the College Club on Commonwealth – no dearth of photo opportunities around there! … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Photography, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Architecture and Food, Boston, Boston Financial District, Bulfinch Awards, College of Charleston, Faneuil Hall, Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Hot Club, ICAA New England Chapter, Institute of Architecture & Art, Nathaniel Robert Walker, Providence RI
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The driverless car fiasco
Driverless cars are fast becoming the next big thing, with timelines for their arrival collapsing at breakneck speed. They remind me of the Minions. Craaashhh! The website grist.org has an article by Katie Herzog called “No One Wants Driverless Cars … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Art and design, Development, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Computers, Driverless Cars, Elon Musk, Google, Grist.org, Katie Herzog, Technology, Tesla, Urban Planning, Urbanism
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The vandals own the gates
Here is sad news from sculptor Walter Arnold, who reports on an act of vandalism in Chicago. He writes: Eric J. Nordstrom continues documenting the destruction of the Charles Sumner Frost-designed Public Life Insurance Building in Chicago. He took this … Continue reading
Canada’s best new buildings
Here, in order of presentation in Canadian Architect, the journal of the Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, are this year’s winners of the biennial Governor General’s Medals in Architecture. No private houses here – this year’s program celebrates architecture “In … Continue reading
Review of Siegel’s new book
Charles Siegel’s fascinating little book The Humanists Versus the Reactionary Avant Garde warmed my cockles with its picture of Norman Foster’s Gherkin – 30 St. Mary Axe, on Leadenhall Street – thrusting aggressively above a traditional London streetscape. I thought … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Other countries, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Avant Garde, Charles Siegel, Christopher Alexander, Modern Architecture, Nikos Salingaros, The Humanists versus the Reactionary Avant-Garde, traditional architecture
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Bad trad betters bad mod
Another modernist building for Providence? Ugh! Here we go again. I could throw up my hands and settle with a sigh. After all, the crossroad that would host more blight, Washington Street and Service Road 7, is already marred by … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Providence, Providence Journal, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Best Western, City Plan Commission, Design Review, Modern Architecture, Providence Public Safety Building, Providence RI, Steven Semes, The Future of the Past
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Cafe Pushkin comes alive
No doubt inspired by photographs of mahogany antiques crammed with romantic abandon into a lovely building in downtown Providence (see my post “Tilden-Thurber memories“), Malcolm Millais, author of Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, has sent me a tale, in … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Interior Design, Other countries, Preservation, Uncategorized, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Andrei Makhov, Cafe Pushkin, Cuisine, Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Fantasy, Franco Andrei Dellos, Gilbert Becaud, Malcolm Millais, Moscow, Natalie, Portuguese, Restaurants, Romance
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Tilden-Thurber memories
The Tilden-Thurber Building, erected in 1895, designed by Shepley, Rutan & Coolidge, of Boston, was sold last week but remains, so far as I can tell, as it was built, inside and out. Stanley Weiss, the local developer and fine … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Books and Culture, Development, Interior Design, Photography, Preservation, Providence, Providence Journal, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Antiques, Clocks, Collections, Freeman Square, Furniture, Grace Church, Grace Park, Hotel Providence, Joseph Paolino, Rutan & Coolidge, Stanley Weiss, Stanley Weiss Collection, Tilden-Thurber Building
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