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The inside of a library with many tables and chairs.

Aug 6 2022

Save the Library of Congress – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture Photo: View of the Library of Congress along with ...
A car is driving down a city street.

Jul 24 2022

Ah, the gentle old streets of Providence – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Photo: View down Weybosset Street, looking northeast from outside Providence Arcade. (Photo by ...
A large white building with flags in front of it.

Jul 14 2022

Washington’s Union Station expansion to hide ugliness in plain site – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Union Station, completed in 1907 near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, ...
A group of people in formal attire in a room.

Jul 12 2022

Preservation Society’s Gilded Age Summer Lecture Series Begins July 14 

The Preservation Society of Newport County will open its Gilded Age Summer Lecture Series on Thursday, July 14, at 6 ...
A hand is drawing a city with a pen.

Jul 8 2022

Most people can tell an ugly building from a pretty one, but lack confidence to assign blame – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Localism calls to mind various “slow” movements such as slow food. ...
A brick building on a street.

Jun 16 2022

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Pawtucket boyhood home – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Frank Lloyd Wright would be 155 years old if he were alive on ...
An artist's rendering of a brick building.

Jun 12 2022

Flub planned by Providence Preservation Society for its own 1769 headquarters – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There Photo: Unsympathetic glass-and-steel addition planned for rear of 1769 Old Brick School House. ...
A man and woman walking down a city street.

Jun 11 2022

Paris without skyscrapers – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer Photo, top: My favorite shot of central Paris taken during a ...
An aerial view of a purple building in the middle of a city.

May 29 2022

The joy of hating modernism – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture Photo: New national library proposed by the late Jan ...
A house with a car parked in front of it.

May 11 2022

Far more appropriate than what they build for a living, and they know it – David Brussat

by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There As I begin to write, I have no idea where the house above ...