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Cement plant for living in

Posted on February 28, 2017 by David Brussat

Ricardo Bofill has long been known for bombastic and gargantuan pseudoclassicism – his take on postmodernism’s ironic dismissal of the classical orders and traditional ornament. In 1973, the Spanish architect purchased an old abandoned cement plant near Barcelona, and has … Continue reading →

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Betsky goes ballistic

Posted on February 26, 2017 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
CCTV tower in Beijing – known as “Big Pants,” it seems intended to crush the people. (nytimes.com) Let the establishment – in this case the New York Times – allow to be uttered…

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Our buildings, our selves

Posted on February 24, 2017 by David Brussat

Originally posted on Architecture Here and There:
Details of Trinity Church, Copley Square, Boston. (Photo by David Brussat) Ann Sussman, author with Justin Hollander of Cognitive Architecture, has an article in Planning magazine, “Planning for the Subconscious,” that suggests that…

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And the race is on!

Posted on February 13, 2017 by David Brussat

Providence. Friday, February 10. 7:45 a.m. This is a completely absurdist concept for a blog post, but my cab to Green Airport, outside of Providence, will (I hope) pick me up in 45 minutes. So here, to be brief, are … Continue reading →

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Atayants’s classical Russia

Posted on January 27, 2017 by David Brussat

The Russian classicist Maxim Atayants’s winning entry in a 2014 competition to design a new judicial quarter in St. Petersburg for the supreme court to be relocated from Moscow was, according to architectural blogger Peter Keller, revoked a year ago. … Continue reading →

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Whoa! Driving in N.Y., 1928

Posted on January 26, 2017 by David Brussat

This video is a riot, even though I’m sure “Driving Around NYC – 1928” was mostly if not all staged. Still wild and crazy stuff, including Harold Lloyd taking Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium. Anybody know who, just before that, … Continue reading →

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The 2017 Bulfinch winners

Posted on January 23, 2017 by David Brussat

The jury has spoken: Here are the winners of this year’s annual Bulfinch Awards program of the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art. The winners in 11 categories were selected from among 67 entries, including … Continue reading →

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Hearing on Hope tower(s)

Posted on January 19, 2017 by David Brussat

The I-195 commission gave thumbs up to the Hope Point Tower(s) project yesterday, but its preliminary, Level 1, approval was conditioned in ways that developer Jason Fane might find hard to swallow. They are that the original three-tower concept is … Continue reading →

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A dream book of Venice

Posted on January 17, 2017 by David Brussat

A book of lovely photographs that capture the spirit of Venice was sent to me a while back by its editor, JoAnn Locktov, after I’d reviewed If Venice Dies, by Salvatore Settis, the Italian art historian. In Locktov’s book, Dream … Continue reading →

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Passages and lessons, 2016

Posted on January 1, 2017 by David Brussat

The passages referred to in the title of this post are from Home Free, a 1977 novel by Dan Wakefield, who earlier had written Going All the Way about the “free” lifestyle embraced by many in the late ’60s early … Continue reading →

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