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Tag Archives: Renzo Piano
Downsizing newspapers
Unlike some other shrinking daily newspapers, the Providence Journal has not moved out of its historic headquarters building, designed by Albert Kahn and completed in 1934, during the Great Depression. But the Journal has shrunk big within its extraordinary neo-Georgian … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Kahn, Blair Kamin, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Providence Journal, Renzo Piano, Tribune Tower, Washington Post
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Which way will Paris go?
Two items regarding the direction of Paris. First is a plea from architectural theorist Leon Krier that Paris’s Mayor Hidalgo find someone other than Dominique Perrault to redesign the portion of the Ile de la Cité (site of Notre Dame … Continue reading
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Tagged Conor Moran, La Samaritaine, Leon Krier, Mary Campbell Gallagher, Mayor Hidalgo, Notre Dame, Paris, Renzo Piano
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Rachleff programming notes
Victoria and I attended last night’s Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra performance at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. It was a wonderful concert even though – perhaps because – we left during intermission. Not that we wanted to miss Stravinsky’s “Rite of Spring,” … Continue reading
BIG copies the future!
It is alleged that Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG), the architect selected to design 2 World Trade Center, has engaged in copying the future. Mary Campbell Gallagher, the redoubtable defender of Paris against skyscrapers via SOS Paris, observes that Ingels’s 2 … Continue reading
BIG kicks Foster off 2 WTC?
The idea that the developers of the 2 WTC megalith – the last major skyscraper of the World Trade Center rebuild – might send Sir Norman Foster packing delights me. The idea of booting the architect even as his tower … Continue reading
Embarrassing screen shot
Above is a screen shot part way down into the online print version of an NPR interview with Renzo Piano, “The Future of Europe’s Cities Is In Their Suburbs.” In it, the interviewer says that “Piano believes it’s the architect’s … Continue reading
Posted in Architects, Architecture, Architecture History, Urbanism and planning
Tagged Centre Pompidou, Modern Architecture, NPR, Paris, Renzo Piano, Richard Rogers, Suburbs
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Renzo Piano, constrained
A friend sent me from HuffPost this image of a new “building” in Paris by starchitect Renzo Piano (what a name!), sure that it would raise my dander sky high. But while the structure certainly confirms the stupidity of modern architecture, … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Urbanism and planning
Tagged architecture, Paris, Renzo Piano, Urbanism
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Sad, glorious history of the Fogg
Here, before I unveil a bit of the sad Fogg history, is an intriguing comment from Eric Daum, whose lengthy and erudite essay on the Gloria Dei Swedish Evangelical Church, in Providence, graced this blog several weeks ago: I love … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Architecture History, Preservation
Tagged architecture, Fogg Museum, Harvard, Renzo Piano, Richard Morris Hunt, Shepley Bulfinch
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“Screams art museum”!
It sure does. That’s a direct quote from Thomas Lenz, head of Harvard Art Museums, intended as praise. The top comment after Harvard Magazine’s article about the Renzo Piano addition to the Fogg Museum of Art was “Is this really the … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Art and design
Tagged architecture, David Brussat, Fogg Museum of Art, Harvard, Modern Architectue, Renovation, Renzo Piano
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Vandalism at Corbu’s Ronchamp
How could they tell? Seriously, the Chapel of Notre-Dame du Haut at Ronchamp, with its rough texture and swoopy lines, may be the least objectionable of Le Corbusier’s buildings. Although William J.R. Curtis has more respect for the chapel than … Continue reading
