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\"In these pages we partners of Centerbrook (Jeff Riley, Mark Simon, Chad Floyd, and Jim Childress) show our work of the last 15 years ... Our first three books presented us more or less as a collective, but here we present material by partner, each of us devoting 96 pages to photographs and drawings of projects accompanied by candid explanations of our inspirations, references, and design goals.\"--Page vi.
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STATION UPGRADES NEEDED TO MAKE RAIL LINE WORK
Finally, the largest gap along the line is Hartford's Union Station, which is centered between downtown Hartford, the campuses of Aetna and The Hartford and the state Capitol grounds. It has the capacity to bring in thousands of commuters into the city's large financial center. However, the station is not prepared to take this new service, nor are the parcels around the station being developed into transit-oriented design blocks that link the station with the $1.3 billion in downtown development. To put it another way, there is way too much surface parking around the station. In Holyoke, there is a massive new \"green\" industrial reuse project in the city's historic Canal District known as \"Open Square\" that uses local hydroelectric power. The mixed-use project is touted as the region's premier mixed-used center of art galleries, entrepreneur businesses and urban lofts, all of which sits right next door to the rail line, the city's abandoned H.H. Richardson train station and the rest of the district's beautiful untapped industrial architecture. PHOTO 1-2: (B&W), PHOTOS BY MARC-YVES REGIS I / THE HARTFORD COURANT; PHOTO 1: HARTFORD'S UNION STATION is centrally located but is not prepared to handle more commuters, nor are there plans to better connect it to the rest of the city. PHOTO 2: THE UNDERUSED AREAS around Hartford's Union Station include expanses of surface parking.
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DOWNTOWN WATERBURY WELL-PLANNED, THRIVING
In addition to the schools and theater, Waterbury officials plan to build a new transportation center around its Metro-North rail spur to reinforce the importance of the transit link. Currently, the rail's terminus is next to the city's old Union Station (with the Torre del Mangia replica tower); just steps from the Waterbury Green and the rest of downtown. The city started these improvements with the great advantage of a downtown that wasn't eviscerated by urban renewal and is intact, scaled and active. Entities such as the Palace, the Waterbury Green and the Cass Gilbert District, as well as the commercial corridors of Grand Street, Bank Street and Leavenworth Street, give Waterbury its sense of place. Downtown Waterbury is relatively self- sufficient, with stately homes, apartments, food shops, post office, a rail link, service stores, the city's central library, the YMCA and a collection of churches and offices within walking distance. It's the type of downtown and atmosphere cities such as Hartford and Stamford are trying to replicate after ripping up their historic centers over the past 50 years. Waterbury should create a transit corridor or pedestrian spine that runs directly from the Brass Mill Center to Downtown Waterbury, and add new buildings on the surface lots and open spaces between the mall and downtown.
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SKY'S THE LIMIT AT RENTSCHLER FIELD
Rentschler Field is a direct heir to Hartford's great tradition of industrial innovation. The Hartford community needs to find the right anchor business or venture there that will spark another era of invention in the Hartford area. We need high-tech, next- generation activity at Rentschler Field. Anything less will be a failure to take advantage of one of the area's best development opportunities in a generation. The airfield's link to Hartford history is compelling, and shouldn't be ignored. Francis Pratt and Amos Whitney were machinists at Sam Colt's massive manufacturing enterprise along the Connecticut River, which was an informal school for many future industrialists. Pratt and Whitney formed their own machine tool company in 1860 and are credited with many innovations in interchangeability and machine metrics. When Pratt & Whitney Machine Tool experienced a slowdown after World War I, leaving it with available skilled workers and factory space, a young businessman came to Hartford with an idea to fill the void. UTC's strongest link with very light jets is Pratt & Whitney's involvement with microjet pioneer Eclipse Aviation, whose Eclipse 500 aircraft was recently certified by the FAA and is powered by two P&W Canada engines. Could United Technologies take the next step and make microjet R&D a major anchor at Rentschler Field? Could this company create another breakthrough invention in the Hartford area?
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AN ARTFUL REVIVAL ; MIDDLETOWN'S GREEN STREET ARTS CENTER FLOWERS IN RENOVATED NORTH END SCHOOL
Under that definition, the Green Street Arts Center in Middletown's North End probably isn't architecture, because there are virtually no frills to fall off. But that just proves the paucity of the description of architecture as \"frills.\" Great architecture helps to change people's lives; it makes a place in the city; and like a pebble dropped in a pond, its value radiates out to the community around it. It might even strengthen that community, give it an identity and help make it worth saving. The force behind the lively use of color was the center's director, Ricardo Morris, who came on board while the building was being designed. Step into Morris' office and you immediately get the picture. It is an intense shade of red, a color he chose. That led the architects to explore a range of colors that makes each of the new spaces in this old building jump up and sing. The dance studio, which faces the parking lot as you enter the arts center, is a spirited yellow, a color that makes it appear as if the sun lives in the studio, even on cloudy days. At night, the glow of the yellow studio space fills the neighborhood with both color and movement. PHOTO 1-2: COLOR, PHOTOS BY CLOE POISSON / HARTFORD COURANT; PHOTO 1: BALLET TEACHERS Rachel Roccoberton, second from right, and Janina Zorn, right, lead a class at the North End arts center. The room, painted a warm yellow, features large windows and a floor mounted on springs. PHOTO 2: THE GREEN STREET ARTS CENTER in Middletown, which opened last January, was renovated with $1.6 million raised by Wesleyan University.
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