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6th annual Bulfinch winners

Posted on February 10, 2016 by David Brussat

The New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art has announced this year’s winners of its Bulfinch Awards, which honor work in classical architecture, urbanism and allied arts. This year for the first time the chapter invited … Continue reading →

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Our Downcity walkabout

Posted on November 21, 2015 by David Brussat

On a clear, modestly chilly evening that just about defines New England in November, hundreds were out on the streets of downtown Providence. No doubt thousands more were inside on the seats of downtown’s robust round-robin of local restaurants and … Continue reading →

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Let Adelaide be Adelaide

Posted on November 18, 2015 by David Brussat

Adelaide, Australia’s fifth-largest city, gracing the continent’s southwestern quadrant, has almost 10 times the population of the city of Providence but the same perceived needs. Manufacturing having vamoosed (you can’t say headed south), Adelaideans seek to develop medical services and … Continue reading →

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Architecture and happiness

Posted on July 16, 2015 by David Brussat

Here is my column “The architecture of happiness” from Dec. 7, 2006, about the book of that name by Alain de Botton. The author has produced a video about London that is excellent, but which seems to contradict his own … Continue reading →

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We dodge a Gmail spanking

Posted on July 16, 2015 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Help! One click can let your tech-challenged correspondent keep sending these Architecture Here And There posts to you. You need not don the above Rube Goldberg device. That is my job. Your job:…

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Rebuild Penn Station, cont.

Posted on May 6, 2015 by David Brussat

Archinect has reported Richard Cameron’s proposal to rebuild Penn Station in the original 1910 style of Charles Follen McKim, linking to Clem Labine’s excellent announcement in Traditional Building. Make sure you check out the mostly positive comments after reading “The … Continue reading →

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In the Union Trust we trust

Posted on April 26, 2015 by David Brussat

To celebrate the newly announced plan by Vince Geoffroy, the developer of the ProvidenceG project, to install 60 luxury apartments in the Union Trust Bank Building, here is a column I wrote about it back in 1996.  Restaurant owner Bob … Continue reading →

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In defense of AutoCAD!

Posted on April 2, 2015 by David Brussat

My post on CAD – which I wish I’d called “CAD or cad?” – has drawn some comment on TradArch from the technique’s defenders. Among the most eloquent and entertaining is Nathaniel Walker’s assertion that computer aided design is just … Continue reading →

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Surprise! Walkers can drive

Posted on March 28, 2015 by David Brussat

City Lab has an article by Eric Jaffe called “Toward a Simple and Universal Law of Pedestrian Behavior” that belongs in the files of the Department of Redundancy Department. Not that it isn’t interesting. To a flâneur like me, anything … Continue reading →

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Friday: “Americans in Paris”

Posted on March 27, 2015 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Front cover of “Americans in Paris.” (amazon.com) Margot Ellis will be in Boston to discuss her book Americans in Paris, co-authored and inspired by the late Jean Paul Carlhian, who died before its…

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