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Bravo for Blue Cross

4:32 PM Thu, Nov 05, 2009 | Permalink | Comments (2)
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island should be commended for putting up what is actually a very attractive modern building in downtown Providence. It's alluring night and day. Kudos to architects Symmes, Maini and McKee Associates, and......

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Rurally conservative

5:24 PM Wed, Nov 04, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

"Maine XXI,'' painting by GRETCHEN DOW SIMPSON That Mainers rejected a plan to allow gay marriage is a reminder that many New Englanders remain socially conservative, especially those in the rural parts of northern New England. (Actually, most of......

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 Tags  Gretchen Dow Simpson   Maine gay marriage; Plaistow   Yale  

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William Morgan: Cute as a Buttonwoods

4:59 PM Tue, Nov 03, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

Commentary and Photo by WILLIAM MORGAN The small Narragansett Bay-side community of Buttonwoods is a jewel that comes as a complete surprise, deeply hidden as it is in Warwick -- a strong contender for Rhode Island's and perhaps New......

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A new green strip in Boston

12:09 PM Sun, Nov 01, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by ANDREA LEGGE This is the Lincoln Street green strip in Boston's Allston neighborhood (much of which Harvard has bought up through sneaky cover companies). Artist team Legge Lewis Legge worked with the Allston Brighton Community Development......

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Kinetic stairway

11:47 AM Sun, Nov 01, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by KI-EUN KWEON This is part of a sustainable-design project at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design with artist Thomas Whittlesey A grant from the New England Foundation for the Arts' Fund for the Arts lets......

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 Tags  KI-EUN KWEON   Massachusetts College of Art and Design   Thomas Whittlesey  

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And dismayed!

12:43 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by GRAHAM NEWHALL You'd be alarmed too if you were an old mill building in Providence whose renovation into pricey lofts was stopped by the credit crunch and recession.......

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Letting it go

12:11 PM Thu, Oct 29, 2009 | Permalink | Write a comment
By Robert Whitcomb    Email

-- Photo by CHARLES PINNING Giving up on October in Providence.......

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