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Proposed for Benefit Street

Posted on March 19, 2014 by David Brussat

Yesterday I posted about several projects in Providence, including an excavation of a front yard at 43 Benefit, the Joseph Jenckes House. I talked to Jason Martin of the city’s planning office and he sent me PDFs of the project, … Continue reading →

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Leon Krier’s tale of post-carbuncle London

Posted on March 5, 2014 by David Brussat

Here is Leon Krier’s piece, “Sustainable Architecture and the Legible City,” just published in Britain’s Architectural Review. Krier recalls the atmosphere in London architectural circles after Prince Charles’s speech denouncing an addition to the National Gallery as “a carbuncle on … Continue reading →

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Eric Daum: Gloria Dei, in Providence

Posted on March 3, 2014 by David Brussat

I here reprint a lengthy and extraordinarily erudite, and elegant, essay by my friend and fellow board member of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. It was originally published on my Journal blog and … Continue reading →

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Old video: San Franscico after the quake, 1906

Posted on February 4, 2014 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
San Francisco after quake of 1906. (etc-magazine.com) Here is an old video from YouTube of San Francisco after the earthquake. It gives rise to the suspicion that maybe the video I posted yesterday…

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No style war at the North Pole!

Posted on December 24, 2013 by David Brussat

A stroll, or troll, on the Internet in search of imagery depicting Santa’s workshop at the North Pole dredged up a host of theories, some of the mind, some of the commercial imagination. The commander in chief is away this … Continue reading →

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Bad Mad Men

Posted on December 21, 2013 by David Brussat

See them (the bad mad men) lurking in the background? Please don’t remove the foreground (the bad mad, often angry, women)! So here’s Dan Bishop, production designer for Mad Men, describing (I think in Dwell magazine, as my source seems … Continue reading →

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Illustrations for “Paradise Planned” column

Posted on December 20, 2013 by David Brussat

Here are illustrations for today’s column, published earlier, called “Garden suburbs as ‘Paradise Planned.’ ” Eventually they will appear with the Journal’s online version of the column as they once did with my old blog, and will be linked weekly … Continue reading →

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Architecture Here and There really begins anew

Posted on December 14, 2013 by David Brussat

Architecture Here and There hereby, henceforth and forthwith migrates to WordPress. This is your correspondent’s first blog post. It is very preliminary, though not as preliminary as my first blog post on WordPress.org, a blog I created by accident (not … Continue reading →

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