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Category Archives: Architecture
The mods’ survival explained
They cut the feedback loop. Nobody has done a better job of explaining the persistence of modern architecture than does Roger Scruton in his review of James Stevens Curl’s new book, Making Dystopia. In his review, Scruton sums up with … Continue reading
Driehaus Prize goes to Culot
Maurice Culot, the Belgian architect and urban theorist who has won this year’s Richard H. Driehaus Prize, is described in an announcement by the University of Notre Dame as being “at the forefront of the creation of the modern traditional … Continue reading
Preservation bombshell!
In a very interesting article in the February issue of East Side Monthly (not yet up on its website) about Providence Preservation Society director Brent Runyon, titled “The Preserver,” staff writer Robert Isenberg elicits from the great director this description … Continue reading
Kansas City vs. New England
Today, Kansas City, Mo., hosts the New England Patriots in their battle with the Kansas City Chiefs for the championship of the American Football Conference, at 6:40 p.m., and the right to represent the AFC (N.E. for the third time … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation
Tagged Boston, Downtowns, Kansas City MO, New England Patriots, Providence
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Bad trad and good trad
Two articles fished from today’s indispensable ArchNewsNow.com, the thrice-weekly free compendium of anglospherical articles on architecture, edited by Kristen Richards, show the use and misuse of classical traditions on opposite sides of the world. Guess which is which, above and … Continue reading
‘A future, or just history’?
A Sunday Globe story, “A Future, or Just History,” about Boston caught my eye. I was arrested by the headline, whose kicker and subhead only added insult to injury: “Trapped in Time” and “No, Faneuil Hall isn’t ‘Boston’ anymore. But … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Preservation
Tagged Boston, Boston Globe, City Planning, Durgin Park, Faneuil Hall, James Rouse, Locke Ober, Quincy Market, Scollay Square, Urban Renewal, West End
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Box #1, Box #2 or Box #3?
The headline refers to the three proposals to build on three parcels along the banks of the Providence River in the I-195 corridor. I missed the I-195 commission’s truncated meeting on this matter just before Christmas. The panel left before … Continue reading
Antelope Freeway is here
Last year the Rhode Island Department of Transportation announced that state and federal highway entrances and exits would be renumbered, under a new federal standard, to reflect not sequence but proximity to highway mile markers. I argued that this was … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Antelope Freeway, Department of Transportation, Exit Signs, Firesign Theater, Highways, U.S. Government
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Best trad buildings of 2018
Vanderbilt University has embarked upon a multi-year building program in which, so far as I can tell, relatively staid traditional dormitories constructed between the 1950s and the ’70s are being replaced by residential colleges (as such facilities are increasingly known … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged 135 E. 79th St. NYC, Charleston, Courier Square, Duncan Stroik, Hartman-Cox, Knoxville Cathedral, Mobile AL Courthouse, Nashville, New Traditional Architecture, RAMSA, Stonehill College Dorms, Studio Sofield, Tampa Chapelle, Vanderbilt, Villanova Pedestrian Bridge
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