Tag Archives: RAMSA

New Yale campus progress

Posted on July 22, 2017 by

Gary Brewer has sent two photographs of the work to date on the two new residential colleges at Yale, Benjamin Franklin and Pauli Murray. They are exquisite, to quote Elizabeth Moule’s assessment in an email to the TradArch listserv. Also … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | Tagged , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Philly’s new revo museum

Posted on May 16, 2017 by

Got a nice mailing the other day from RAMSA – that is, Robert A.M. Stern Architects, Bob Stern’s firm, in New York City. Open the flyer and a photo on two flaps emerges of the Museum of the American Revolution, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Lovely rough-hewn brick

Posted on August 18, 2016 by

Beauty is not always symmetrical, or smooth or polished. Neither is nature. Some of the most beautiful buildings have a sort of rough-hewn quality, often provided gratis over the years by time and weather. The matter came up yesterday when … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture | Tagged , , , , , , , , | 3 Comments

Work on new Yale campus

Posted on July 21, 2016 by

After driving down to attend the Palladio Awards at the New Haven Lawn Club on Wednesday afternoon (alas, the wrong day), I offered myself the compensatory pleasure of viewing construction well under way at Yale’s new campus quads, designed by Robert … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Shots of the Bulfinch gala!

Posted on May 11, 2016 by

Here is a healthy selection of photos from the New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art‘s recent Bulfinch Awards gala at the Harvard Club on Commonwealth Avenue in Boston. The event was a rousing success because … Continue reading →

Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Interior Design, Landscape Architecture, Photography, Preservation | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

6th annual Bulfinch winners

Posted on February 10, 2016 by

The New England chapter of the Institute of Classical Architecture & Art has announced this year’s winners of its Bulfinch Awards, which honor work in classical architecture, urbanism and allied arts. This year for the first time the chapter invited … Continue reading →

Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Landscape Architecture, Preservation, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , , , | 7 Comments

Handsome rectangular box?

Posted on October 23, 2015 by

I had hoped to remain mum to “Brown’s handsome rectangular box,” as the headline over my friend William Morgan’s piece in the Providence Journal describes the university’s latest foray into the avant garde. Not very far into it, Morgan shrugs, … Continue reading →

Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Art and design, Development, Providence, Urbanism and planning | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | 9 Comments

More new crap at Brown

Posted on April 22, 2015 by

Brown apparently regrets its beauty and wants to be among the ugliest schools in the Ivy League. This is the only conclusion that comports with the fact of what it builds on campus. The latest is the Applied Math Building … Continue reading →

Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture Education, Architecture History, Development, Providence | Tagged , , , , , , , | 4 Comments

Brewer rocks in Fayetteville

Posted on January 13, 2015 by

Gary Brewer of RAMSA designed a beautiful new wing for an old academic building, the Honors College (imagine that!) at the University of Arkansas, in Fayetteville a while back and I am remiss to have allowed readers to wait so … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Architecture Education, Development | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment

A corkscrew of a day!

Posted on June 26, 2014 by

Got vile news today that the Board of Architectural Review in Charleston has approved Clemson’s design, by Brad Cloepfil, of Allied Works in Portland, Ore., for a modernist School of Architecture building in the middle of Charleston’s historic district. Remarkably … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Urbanism and planning | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment