Tag Archives: Granoff Center for the Creative Arts

REX wrecks Brown PAC Rx

Posted on February 22, 2019 by David Brussat

The newly released design for Brown’s proposed performing arts center by the New York firm REX, led by Rem Koolhaas OMA alumnus Joshua Prince-Ramus, can’t be accused of wrecking a swath of campus. That’s already been accomplished. But it can … Continue reading →

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Brown shifts, saves 5 houses

Posted on February 20, 2018 by David Brussat

Breaking news! Brown has just issued an announcement that it will shift its proposed performing arts center a block north, saving four historic buildings from demolition. The new site, between Angell and Olive streets rather than Waterman and Angell, requires … Continue reading →

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New Brown engineers’ crib

Posted on October 26, 2017 by David Brussat

Modern architecture is easy to dislike. Its exemplars are ridiculous, its mythology is idiotic, and the methods by which it maintains dominance in the field of architecture are corrupt. I loathe modern architecture generally and feel little but contempt for … Continue reading →

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Breuer Whitney/Met Breuer

Posted on March 18, 2016 by David Brussat

The Met Breuer opened today. It is the Brutalist building that the Whitney Museum of American Art left before moving last year into a building designed for it by Renzo Piano in New York’s Meatpacking District. The Metropolitan Museum of … Continue reading →

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