The city has decided to stage a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge which will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge. Request for Qualifications was due on Friday, September 17, 2010. Forty seven firms submitted...
Studio Providence’s decision to not release its pedestrian bridge design to the ProJo for David Brussat’s July 29th column was not driven by a desire for secrecy, but by our respect for the committee’s interest in getting great design built in...
This morning David Brussat of the Providence Journal referred to Studio Providence’s pedestrian bridge proposal as ” the Sopwith Camel Gas Station design.” projo.com For those under 50, here’s what the Sopwith Camel looks like. We’re...
(An updated version of this story can be found here.) Beginnings are arbitrary, accidental and mysterious. It is hard to know exactly when a point in a process becomes the beginning of something. Moisture, barometric pressure, temperature, currents of air carrying...
Jack Ryan (FAR Design) is currently leading the design and construction of semi-permanent schools in Haiti for Plan International. Wilbur Yoder is providing the structural engineering review of the design. The semi-permanent school building design is hurricane and...
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