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Tag Archives: engineering
Modernist luxury mall fall
Beautiful building, eh? Well, you won’t have to look at it anymore after viewing this video. The mall collapsed in Mexico City on July 12, some four months after opening amid controversy, said by the Associated Press to have involved … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Video
Tagged Algorithm, Artz Pedregal, engineering, MAXXI, Mexico City, Modern Architecture, Stress, Structural Design, Zaha Hadid
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J&W’s engineering error
Johnson & Wales University is about to open up its new engineering facility, named for its chancellor, John Bowen. It will be the first building on land vacated by the relocation of Route 195 to the south of downtown. Providence … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged 195 Land, Beauty, engineering, John J. Bowen, Mim Runey, Providence RI
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Cantilevetravatecture!
I made up that word to headline this post about “Cantilever Architecture,” a set of the world’s most ridiculous works in that category, including one (the last one) by Santiago Calatrava, part of whose last name helps form the word … Continue reading
Tip me over! Faster! Faster!
A proposed new megatower is planned in China’s Pearl River delta. The city is not named in either the Curbed or the Building Design & Construction articles, perhaps because the city will not exist until the building is finished. It … Continue reading
Brown attacks College Hill
Four excellent old houses disappeared, poof!, from the Brown campus in recent weeks. In “New campus for Brown engineering?” I protested their proposed demise in a column in 2014. Now the design for what is to replace them has been … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Architectural History, Architectural Theory, Brown Engineering School, Brown University, engineering, Engineers, Justin Timberlake, KeiranTimberlake, Machine Age
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Knockdown knockabout
Many years ago, no later than the mid-90s, I was invited by Providence Preservation Society director Arnold Robinson to sit in on a meeting of the facilities planning staffs of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. By … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Preservation, Providence, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Brown University, engineering, Nikos Salingaros, Planning
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Column: New campus for Brown engineering?
Brown University’s School of Engineering is the oldest engineering program in the Ivy League, begun in 1847, and the third oldest in the country. Brown plans to build a new main engineering building on College Hill, in Providence. The university … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development, Preservation, Providence
Tagged Alumni, Brown University, Donation, engineering, Environment, Green, Providence
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Column: “The Rise and Fall of Penn Station”
Before Pennsylvania Station opened in 1910, travelers headed for New York on the Pennsylvania Railroad, owned by the largest company in the world, had to debark in New Jersey and cross the Hudson River by ferry to Manhattan. It’s hard … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Book/Film Reviews, Preservation, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Alexander Cassatt, architecture, Architecture Here and There, Charles Follen McKim, classical architecture, Conquering Gotham, David Brussat, Demolition, engineering, Jill Jonnes, McKim Mead & White, Modern Architecture, New York, Norman McGrath, PBS, Penn Station, Pennsylvania Railroad, Pennsylvania Station, Preservation, Randall MacLowery, The Rise and Fall of Penn Station, Tunnel, WGBH
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Blast from past: Review of Millais’s “Exploding …”
I’ve mentioned Malcolm Millais’s Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture several times in recent posts. Malcolm, a Brit who lives in Portugal, has sent innumerable nuggets that have helped me push this blog over the edge for years. He is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Blast from past, Book/Film Reviews
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, Corbusier, David Brussat, engineering, Exploding the Myths of Modern Architecture, Malcolm Millais, Modern Architecture, modernism, Prince Charles, Providence Journal, Style, Tazza
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Column: The rise and fall of Guastavino tile
About 600 buildings in the United States, including 200 in New York, 29 in Boston, 22 in Washington and 7 in Rhode Island, feature a tile vault system perfected by a native of Valencia, Spain, brought by him to America … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design, Preservation
Tagged architecture, Architecture Here and There, art, Boston Public Library, Central Congregational Church, craft, David Brussat, design, engineering, Guastavino, Guastavino tile, Guastavino vaulting, John Ochsendorf, modernism, National Building Museum, Providence, Providence County Superior Court, Rafael Guastavino, Rhode Island, Valencia, Washington
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