Category Archives: Architecture

My guess on Penn Station

Posted on August 6, 2024 by David Brussat

Not much news lately on the idea of rebuilding Pennsylvania Station as it was originally designed by architects McKim Mead & White in 1910. The station was torn down in 1963 and replaced by the existing mess of a rail … Continue reading →

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Olympic start was a bit off

Posted on July 27, 2024 by David Brussat

Many around the globe had hoped to be thrilled by this year’s opening ceremonies at the XXXIII Olympiad. The beauty of Paris offered splendid opportunity, if organizers had only let Paris be Paris. But sadly, it was not to be. … Continue reading →

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Andreas restaurant: RIP?

Posted on May 15, 2024 by David Brussat

Andreas Restaurant has reigned for decades as the favorite dining establishment on the East Side of Providence, R.I. Maybe not the best restaurant east of the Providence River, but surely the best on Thayer Street, often considered the Main Street … Continue reading →

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True: Andreas Restaurant, RIP?

Posted on May 15, 2024 by David Brussat

Andreas Restaurant has reigned for decades as the favorite dining establishment on the East Side of Providence, R.I. Maybe not the best restaurant east of the Providence River, but surely the best on Thayer Street, often considered the Main Street … Continue reading →

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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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