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Tag Archives: Demolition
Assault on history at Brown
This afternoon, Providence’s City Plan Commission heard Brown University officials propose to move one and raze four historic buildings to make way for a new performing arts center with a concert hall rumored large enough to swallow the nearby Granoff … Continue reading
Out with the new, in with …
A new apartment building planned for Westminster Street outside of downtown, well beyond Route 95, is going through the design process. The Journal’s story, “5-story building gets go-ahead in Providence” describes tough going for the developer, Michael Lemoi, whose project … Continue reading
TB on Fogarty’s demise
Here is my Traditional Building blog post from a couple months ago, around the time some ardent local preservationists held a funeral for the John C. Fo- garty Memorial Building, soon after its demolition began. Soon after that its demolition … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Providence, Video
Tagged Brutalist Architecture, Demolition, Fogarty Building, Providence RI, Traditional Building, Video
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GoLocal’s buildings to demo
In the wake of the decline and fall of the Fogarty Building, in Providence, GoLocalProv.com ran an important list: “Providence’s Fogarty Building Demolished, What Other Buildings Should Go?” It includes a slide show featuring a set of buildings that should … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Demolition, Development, Fogarty Building, GoLocalProv.com, Modern Architecture, Nate Storring, Providence RI
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First kill all the bureaucrats
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
Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized
Tagged Christ Church, Demolition, New York, New York Post, Sam Chang, Steve Cuozzo
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The vandals own the gates
Here is sad news from sculptor Walter Arnold, who reports on an act of vandalism in Chicago. He writes: Eric J. Nordstrom continues documenting the destruction of the Charles Sumner Frost-designed Public Life Insurance Building in Chicago. He took this … Continue reading
Your best lost building here!
The other day I received an email from Edward Mack, an editor at The History Press, an imprint of Arcadia Publishing. You all know their books. The regional literature shelves of your local bookstore are struggling even now under the … Continue reading
Met, NYPL dodge ’40s bullet
A surprising revelation in an interesting paragraph from Michael Gross’s history of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Rogues’ Gallery: [NYC parks commissioner and Met board member] Robert Moses’s first impression of the new director [Francis Henry Taylor, 1940-55] was changing. … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged art, Demolition, Francis Henry Taylor, Merger, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Michael Gross, Museums, New York Public Library, Robert Moses, Rogues' Gallery
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“Clock ticking” for brutality?
So says the New York Times’s Michael Kimmelman in “Clock Ticks for Rudolph’s Orange County Government Center.” By the time you read this, the bye-bye birdie may well have chirped its demise. I had not realized that demolition was still … Continue reading
A city’s steepled horizon
Shot these photos after penning a strategy for the beautification of Providence that ran last Monday, Nov. 10, at GoLocalProv.com (where I now do a weekly column). The basic thrust of the plan requires the demolition of the city’s 10 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Photography, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged College Hill, Demolition, GoLocalProv, Providence RI
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