The Providence Preservation Society of Rhode Island has released its annual Most Endangered Properties survey. Once again on the list are the weirdly whimsical and totally phallic towers (I’m sorry but I know a penis when I see one, pic after jump) at the Atlantic Mills complex at 100 Manton Avenue, built in 1863. Apparently …
Inspired by a similar exercise in The Boston Globe, David Brussat, architecture critic for The Providence Journal, has called for readers to name their choice for ‘Ugliest Building in Providence’. . . I applaud Robert Campbell for getting the ball rolling in Boston. Let’s get it rolling in Providence. Which buildings should we murder? We …
Isn’t it exquisite? In a recent ProJo article bemoaning the “city’s latest architectural monster”, the Providence Career and Technical High School, columnist David Brussat mentions a recent event held in the building’s auditorium. For a lecture sponsored by the Providence Preservation Society, Wheaton College art history professor Tripp Evans was invited to speak on the …
Providence city councilman, Cliff Wood, sends out an open invitation to come poke around the shiny new Nathan Bishop. This should be of interest to the neighbors who advocated for the renovation, prospective parents and students, and I should think former students would want to take advantage of this opportunity to revisit their old school. …
We can only hope that renowned architect Daniel Liebeskind will be able to offer some insight for the vacant lot at 110 Westminster. In any case, he will be at Brown tomorrow night to discuss his “architectural philosophy,” and other topics. Prof. Dietrich Neumann, an esteemed Providencephile, will lead the discussion. Wednesday, 4pm, Salomon Center …
And the Flaming Poo Poo Platters… look we didn’t know any better. Researcher and Brown grad student Heather Lee is conducting oral history research on some of the old family-owned Chinese restaurants once located in downtown Providence. She is particularly interested in hearing about the famous Ming Garden, Luke’s on Eddy Street, and the Mee …
From Reuters: “Web site VirtualTourist.com has come up with a list of “The World’s Top 10 Ugliest Buildings and Monuments” according to their editors and readers. Reuters has not endorsed this list. Some of these picks have all the charm of a bag of nails while others are just jaw-dropping in their complexity. Love them …
Holy crap does this book look awesome. Looking at Shanghai, Johannesburg, New York, Mexico City, London, and Berlin, this 500-page book compiled by the London School of Economics and Deutsche Bank’s Alfred Herrhausen Society has a crapload of essays with titles like “An Urban Age In A Suburban Nation,” “Towards A Carbon-Neutral London,” and “The …
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