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Carpionato rides again!?

Posted on December 22, 2016 by David Brussat

The proposed apartment complex on Harris Avenue behind Providence Place, near the 903 apartments, looks enchanting. Of course, the devil is in the details, and one fears the design will not even live up to the drawings above and below, … Continue reading →

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Ruskin’s “Two Paths” speech

Posted on November 19, 2016 by David Brussat

Among the platitudes of architecture these days is the modernist credo that innovation is the chief merit of the building arts. Innovation is important, but modernists have a narrow definition of the term that limits their vision. John Ruskin, the … Continue reading →

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America gets its dome back

Posted on November 17, 2016 by David Brussat

It has been disconcerting if not downright depressing to see the dome of the United State Capitol shrouded in scaffolding these past two years. Ditto the Washington Monument when it was being repaired. Unlike the great obelisk, no calls to … Continue reading →

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First kill all the bureaucrats

Posted on November 8, 2016 by David Brussat

Let’s see if I have this correct: The 110-year-old Christ Church on West 36th Street, in Manhattan’s Garment District, was purchased by a developer who wanted to save the facade to be incorporated into the design of a new hotel. … Continue reading →

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Venice author today, Brown

Posted on October 25, 2016 by David Brussat

Salvatore Settis, the author of If Venice Dies, will speak at 7 p.m. today at Brown University’s Rhode Island Hall. That’s the stucco Greek Revival building facing the main campus green from just south of University Hall. I am about … Continue reading →

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Stairway to nowhere in N.Y.

Posted on October 11, 2016 by David Brussat

Above is “The Vessel,” so-called. Jim Kunstler has selected it for October’s Eyesore of the Month, on his website. “The Vessel” is designed by Thomas Heatherwick, the British architect who specializes in the ridiculous. It is apparently an attempt to mimic … Continue reading →

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Hark, a noble local Nobel!

Posted on October 5, 2016 by David Brussat

Congratulations to Brown University for the Nobel won by one of its physics professors, Michael Kosterlitz. Moreover, congrats to Kosterlitz himself. His Nobel threw me for a loop. It was, I thought, for a discovery in topography, as if he’d … Continue reading →

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100 best architecture blogs

Posted on October 2, 2016 by David Brussat

Perceptive readers of this architecture blog will have noticed a beribboned badge, or the image thereof, in the upper right corner of the home page. It reads: “Top 100 Achitecture Blogs,” signalling that Architecture Here and There has been selected … Continue reading →

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Will the real Seagram Building please stand up?

Posted on September 27, 2016 by David Brussat

On Sunday I posted “Tom Wolfe and Henry Reed,” and to my mortification was informed by a reader that the Seagram Building was not the building in the photo I used to illustrate the piece. I plead guilty. Who could … Continue reading →

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No surrender to Gehry Ike

Posted on September 20, 2016 by David Brussat

News that the Eisenhower family has been flipped and now supports the design of a proposed memorial to their patriarch by celebrity architect Frank Gehry is depressing, and maybe even predictable, but it’s too early for opponents of the monstrosity … Continue reading →

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