Category Archives: Architecture

Christopher Gray’s legacy

Posted on April 25, 2024 by David Brussat

Christopher Gray was my favorite Timesman, which is news speak for reporter at the New York Times. (I’ll admit, that’s a low bar, these days at least.) I didn’t read him often because I don’t get the Times, but when … Continue reading →

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Architecture of community

Posted on April 15, 2024 by David Brussat

Below is the foreward to Léon Krier’s book The Architecture of Community (2009), which I posted on my blog in 2020. Born in Luxembourg, Krier, is, of course, among the foremost thinkers about architecture and city planning. Above his foreward … Continue reading →

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Radiant Garden City Beautiful

Posted on March 30, 2024 by David Brussat

Henry Hope Reed, who wrote The Golden City in 1959 and led the opposition to modern architecture in the mid-20th century and helped to found the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art in 1968 (originally called Classical America), was not … Continue reading →

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Rebuild Key Bridge as it was

Posted on March 27, 2024 by David Brussat

President Biden has said he will rebuild the collapsed Francis Scott Key Bridge, over the Papatsco River leading into the Port of Baltimore, at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The bridge, completed in 1977, was hit by a freighter … Continue reading →

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Providence Place: Still alive

Posted on March 16, 2024 by David Brussat

I don’t have any deep inside knowledge (or shallow inside knowledge) of whether the downtown mall in my town, Providence Place, is going down the tubes soon. Still, my friend Will Morgan, who is also a local architecture critic, a … Continue reading →

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Wake up, Little Compton

Posted on March 8, 2024 by David Brussat

Little Compton’s town council will soon receive advice from this corner that was good when originally delivered in 2003, in my Journal column of Aug. 28 of that year as part of my “Outside Providence” series. The series looked at … Continue reading →

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Save Pawtucket’s Ott Mansion

Posted on February 10, 2024 by David Brussat

The headline of this post is the same as when I wrote it as my weekly column for the Providence Journal in 2008. The Read-Ott Mansion was at a most dire risk of demolition then, and remains so now. Its … Continue reading →

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Best trad buildings of 2023

Posted on January 26, 2024 by David Brussat

It is past time for my annual roundup of best buildings from 2023. I confess, the time blew right past me. Maybe it is not too late now, but I am too busy (and lazy) to wrap it all up … Continue reading →

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Gaza as we’ve never seen it

Posted on January 15, 2024 by David Brussat

I occasionally devote a blog to cities devastated by war or natural disaster, showing how beautiful the place used to be (and to some extent may still be) as disaster consumes its ancient buildings. In most cases, the allure of … Continue reading →

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Behold, NYC’s Tudor City

Posted on January 11, 2024 by David Brussat

I had lunch today (by now, yesterday) at Maven’s, a newly opened Jewish delicatessen in that plaza just off Hope Street as it becomes East Avenue, in Pawtucket. I’ve eaten there once before with my wife, Victoria – delicious, though … Continue reading →

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