City's ugliest building

            I've been wanting to express this opinion for years now: The

        ugliest building in downtown Providence - maybe in downtown Anywhere -

        is the Blue Cross building located at One Weybosset St. It is a hideous,

        tasteless block of urban real estate - and should be condemned by the

        EPA for its COLOR alone. Yes, I am prejudiced against SOME colors !

        That filthy Army camouflage color of One Weybosset St. ! It looks as

        if it were smeared with mud that dried out after monsoon rains.

             Perhaps the whole building can be relocated somewhere in

        Rangoon -in a combat zone. The architect of that building should be

        forced to read the Complete Works of Dave Brussat. Then he should

        get a job washing his monstrosity building's windows !

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     Ron - Your note made my day. I agree with you. The BCBS Building (which
    in a column a while back I denominated the Black & Blue Building) was in the
    news recently when Joe Paolino proposed to move the police headquarters there so a hotel could be placed on the HQ site. He proposed resurfacing the hideous box in an equally boring, albeit perhaps somewhat less hideous, set of blue mirrors. I gave it the thumbs down, in spite of an unusually fierce campaign of buttering me up. He then asked me to help him redesign the BCBS facade in a more agreeable way, which I did, suggesting that it be wholly refaced with a more traditional building facade. This was done, but by then it was too late to rescue the project from the Wasserman/Mesollela combine, which is now running with the ball, and whose project is unrelated to the BCBS. But here's hoping it will collapse. (At night, of course.) And thank you again for your kind words. "Works of Dave Brussat" indeed!
        - Dave