Dome of the Gadsden County Courthouse. Quincy Florida, Built 1913, architect Hal F Hentz of Hertz, Reid and Adler. The firm is “known in the Southeast for their Beaux-Arts style and as the founding fathers of the Georgia school of classicism.”The Arkansas State Capitol was constructed between 1899 and 1915 on the site of the old state penitentiary using prison labor. These buildings, when, where and how they were built cause discomfort among some. Should they be removed?
Your ability to create places that are meaningful and places of quality and character depends entirely on your ability to define space with buildings, and to employ the vocabularies, grammars, syntaxes, rhythms and patterns of architecture in order to inform us who we are.—Jim Kunstler
Neighborhood school across the street and up the hill. Looks like a school, not a factory. Gardens on the school grounds, different than the US model (big parking lot and few windows)Notable degree of cleanliness prevails. Possibly that training starts early? A commonly held societal value?The hillside neighborhood is an oasis of quiet. The neighborhood streets are typically 12-14′ wide. “Fire codes” wouldn’t allow this street typology in the US.The practice of walking to school is nearly universal and starts early.Car use around the school is restricted. The community assures that children walk, and that while walking they are safe.
September 13, great discussion by the entrance corridor review board regarding proposed big box pharmacy which desires to locate at 1170 Emmett Street (southeast corner of the Barracks/Rt 29 intersection). The ERCB made comments based on the entrance corridor design guidelines and deferred the matter in hopes that the applicant will return with a plan that will complement the community.
Twilight, Rhode Island state house from Gray’s room on Benefit Street. The State House was designed by the architectural firm of McKim, Mead, and White and constructed from 1895 to 1904.
Walking south on Old Harbor Road, with one foot you’re standing in Massachusetts, next step lands you in Rhode Island. I’ve always been curious about this structure. Who built it? Why?