Category Archives: Architecture

The Parthenon’s shackles

Posted on October 17, 2025 by David Brussat

  Recent view of thee Parthenon with its scaffolding removed. The Parthenon skirted in scaffolding before its recent removal. For the first time in generations, the Parthenon is without its iron scaffolding. Tourists can view the famous Athenian landmark as … Continue reading →

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The Parthenon sheds its scaffolding

Posted on October 17, 2025 by David Brussat

For the first time in generations, the Parthenon is without its iron scaffolding. Tourists can view the famous Athenian landmark as it had been viewed by visitors to Greece for more than 200 years; it has been cloaked in construction … Continue reading →

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Hasbro absquatulates

Posted on September 9, 2025 by David Brussat

400 Summer St., in Boston’s Seaport District, where Hasbro has chosen to relocate its headquarters building, along with 700 jobs. (Photo courtesy of CoStar News) Rhode Islanders are mourning the loss of a leading manufacturer, Hasbro, which has announced its … Continue reading →

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A White House ballroom

Posted on August 4, 2025 by David Brussat

What we really need in this country, in the nation’s capital for god’s sake, is a grand new state ballroom to host White House guests – dignitaries foreign and domestic – presidents and such like – at yuge parties with … Continue reading →

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Our Rube Goldberg world

Posted on January 15, 2025 by David Brussat

Or, the Architecture of our Lives By this title I refer to the structures of the lives that we Americans, most of us, lead. Notwithstanding all the other things we all have going on in our lives, much of our … Continue reading →

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Newport Cottages: 1835-90

Posted on December 22, 2024 by David Brussat

This excellent volume is the second describing the splendid dwellings of the summer colony of the City by the Sea, by architectural historian Michael C. Kathrens. It is subtitled “1835-1885: The Summer Villas Before the Vanderbilt Era.” His first volume … Continue reading →

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Notre-Dame de Weybosset St.

Posted on December 20, 2024 by David Brussat

It’s a bit late to be hailing the rebuilt Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. How beautiful it looks, inside and out. For a deeper analysis of both efforts I will await word from those more knowledgeable than I. Still, it … Continue reading →

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The mush slated for Parcel 5

Posted on September 29, 2024 by David Brussat

The Route 195 District Development Commission has just released a set of nine proposals submitted at its request for Parcel 5, the largest remaining unbuilt, unsold or not yet “under agreement” bit of I-195 land east of the Providence River, … Continue reading →

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Rubik’s Cube of life sciences

Posted on September 14, 2024 by David Brussat

Brown has released the design of its umpteenth medical research center in Providence’s Jewelry District. It looks just like every other building of its sort, a bland, inoffensive glass and steel nonentity designed by TenBerke, with interiors by Ballinger, encumbered … Continue reading →

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Read-Ott House, RIP

Posted on August 28, 2024 by David Brussat

After years of effort by those who wished to save it, the Read-Ott House succumbed to demolition on Monday by its owner, the Assumption of the Virgin Mary Greek Orthodox Church next door to it on Walcott Street, in Pawtucket’s … Continue reading →

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