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Tag Archives: Fane Tower
Lessons from the Fane ouster
The so-called Hope Point Tower threat is gone, done in by inflationary costs and a dodgy market. Lessons from this interlude abound, chiefly that neighborhood opposition to poorly conceived proposals works. Jason Fane’s proposal for a 550-foot tower in a … Continue reading
Fane tower bites the dust!
The latest design revision of the Fane tower, now canceled. (GoLocalProv.com) The Fane tower is dead. This news came to me just a minute ago, and I have interrupted my attention to a Zoom forum of the Classical Planning Institute … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Fane Tower, I-195 District Redevelopment Commission, Jason Fane, Providence RI
23 Comments
Not as sexy but just as bad
Developer Jason Fane has cut costs by removing the pizzazz from his proposed tower design. Without the sinuous curves, it looks less ridiculous but would not fit into the Jewelry District any better, if built, than before its redesign – … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Absolute Towers, Fane Tower, GoLocalProv.com, IBI Group, Jason Fane, MAD Architects, Rhode Island Supreme Court, Toronto
19 Comments
The Fane tower: It’s baaack!
The Rhode Island Supreme Court has ruled that the Fane tower – a proposed 500-foot, 46-story luxury highrise in the Jewelry District of Providence – can go forward toward construction. The tower’s proposed height of five times the limit in … Continue reading
Patinkin errs on Corso tower
Mark Patinkin, a columnist for the Providence Journal, wondered in Friday’s paper “Is Providence turning into the city of ‘no’?” He rushes to the defense of a newly proposed building in the Jewelry District that is opposed by the Jewelry … Continue reading
New bridge in Providence
The new pedestrian and bicycle bridge in Providence has nudged me out of my lane. Its design is modernist. I like it. This does not compute. I’d still prefer a traditional bridge, such as the one inspired by the Pont … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged Bill Warner, Bridge Design, David Cicilline, Fane Tower, Providence Pedestrian Bridge, Providence RI
10 Comments
Streamline? No. Steamroll
Senate President Dominick Ruggerio will hold a meeting later today – 4 p.m. in Room 313 – on his legislation to “streamline” the development process for projects on state land in every city and town in Rhode Island. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Development
Tagged Dominick Ruggieri, Fane Tower, Providence RI, Rhode Island, Town Planning, Zoning
5 Comments
Nightmare on Smith Hill
Last night I had a dream so disturbing that I woke up, got out of bed, and sat at my computer to memorialize it. This was about 5:30 a.m. With minor clarifications and omissions, my memo reads: Dreamed I was … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture
Tagged 195 Legislation, Capital Center, DBVW Architects, Dominic Ruggieri, Dreams, Fane Tower, Nellie Gorbea, Providence RI, Rhode Island, RI Archives
8 Comments
Calm before the Fane storm
A quiet – or a quietus, as a friend from Boston might put it – reigns over the architectural landscape in Providence. Nobody is certain whether the city’s smackdown of the proposed Fane tower design trumps the authority of the … Continue reading
Rubbers meets the Rhode
Senate President Dominick “Rubbers” Ruggerio has introduced legislation in Rhode Island’s General Assembly to bar cities and towns from bothering the developers who want to screw this state’s localities and their citizens. Ruggerio was dumbfounded by the meanies of the … Continue reading