Re: “Brick by brick,” photo, Nov. 2.
The photo of a sign artist painting on quoins (corner rustication) on the façade of the renovated Janion Building is a sad indictment of the shortcomings of many restorations of legacy buildings downtown.
Tourists flock to the Old Town because they want to see “slow architecture”— buildings made of rusticated stone and real, textured brick, things that slow down the eye and make it linger on the details.
“Brick wallpaper” is a sorry substitute, but the tourists won’t tell you that. If you build it, they simply won’t come.
Jonathan Stoppi
Victoria
