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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Art of the illustrator in a proper grand setting by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

NEWPORT, R. I. — It’s one of my favorite museums in New England, or anywhere for that matter, yet hardly anyone has heard of it.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:30PM
Saturday, May 14, 2011

If you don't build it, they won't come by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

Last Sunday, for the third year, I took my annual walk down the Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway, an event that has become a kind of rite of spring. Each year, with the optimism of the seaso…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Saturday, April 30, 2011

At industrial sites, the landscape shifts by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

PROVIDENCE — When we think of landscapes, we usually think of gardens and rivers, of lakes, forests, and mountains. We don’t normally think of abandoned factories.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, April 16, 2011

Art and design, catching the public’s eye on campus by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

It’s a surprising thing to come across on the Harvard campus. Nine big piles, maybe 14 feet square and 8 feet high, that look like forts children might make. The walls are made of kid-…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, March 26, 2011

Designs on the best of both worlds by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

PROVIDENCE — It’s kind of an odd duck on the mostly traditional College Hill campus of Brown University.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Saturday, March 12, 2011

Yawkey Center’s invigorating, optimistic effect by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

Dana-Farber’s new building is the best piece of architecture I’ve seen in Boston’s medical area, a neighborhood that often feels dismal and crowded.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, February 26, 2011

A glass and light celebration of the humanities by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

WALTHAM — Brandeis University and its Waltham campus always bring to mind the wonderful word “discombobulated.’’ On a lovely rocky, rolling site, buildings of many si…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Saturday, February 12, 2011

How high can developers jump? by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

Here’s a paradox. Boston’s city planners determine that new buildings on the ocean side of the Kennedy Greenway should be no taller than 200 feet. They arrive at that number afte…

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 11:30AM
Saturday, January 22, 2011

Two very different buildings are honored by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

Two of the best buildings in Greater Boston have been honored with my two favorite architectural prizes. Both awards were officially announced last week.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, January 8, 2011

MIT's Sloan building appealing, not audacious by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

Why would an institution create radically different kinds of architecture just a few years apart?

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 01:00PM
Saturday, December 18, 2010

Design in another dimension: morality by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

NEW YORK — Are architects egomaniacs whose deepest ambition is to build monuments to themselves and their rich clients?

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 10:47AM
Friday, November 19, 2010

A wing that works by Robert Campbell, Globe Correspondent

The handsome new Art of the Americas Wing at the Museum of Fine Arts is a place for looking at art, not a place for looking at architecture.

SOURCE: Boston Globe at 12:07PM

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