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Snowtown Project creates graphics representing destroyed Black neighbourhood

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A group of Rhode Island School of Design graduate students have created design projects and a research database examining a majority Black neighbourhood that was destroyed in the 19th century. The students teamed up with a local group called the Snowtown Research Collective to complete the project.

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A4 Spotlight: Origins of Shingle Style

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Newport Tennis Casino (Newport, Rhode Island) The Shingle Style has become one of the most popular and long-lived styles of architectural design, particularly in the eastern resort cities. Vincent Scully would eventually name this new design approach “The Shingle Style,” in his seminal text of the same name.

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Lindemann Performing Arts Center, Brown University

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The day of celebration will welcome the campus community and the public to experience the University’s new creative hub, curated by BAI and designed by REX/Joshua Ramus. The Lindemann Performing Arts Center and Brown Arts Institute are both part of the Perelman Arts district.

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The Interface Plan of 1974

Architecture Here and There

The second half of Chapter 17, “The Interface Plan,” from Lost Providence , tells the story of the plan produced by the Rhode Island School of Design students under Prof. Many Rhode islanders still recall “going down city” to shop. Gerald Howes. It was 190,101 as of 2020.] In downtown Providence?

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A4 Architecture Spotlight: Carriage Houses

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In Newport Rhode Island we do not only have the great Gilded Age houses. In Newport many of these large houses were converted into schools or condominiums or (sadly) were torn down altogether to make room for suburban development. The most desirable of these accessory structures were the carriage houses.

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A4 Spotlight: 2022 Doris Duke Preservation Awards

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Newport is rich with history and historic charm visible through many beautifully designed buildings and homes. She even was noted as the wealthiest women in America. This Queen Anne Revival style house was design by the Boston firm of Peabody and Sterns and was originally completed in 1886.

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The Interface Plan, cont.

Architecture Here and There

The history and technique of classical architecture and its traditional brethren had been expunged from the curricula of every school of architecture in America, but even as late as 1970, the growing accumulation of built modernism was surrounded by reminders of what might have been. Modernist residences and shops in Kennedy Plaza.

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