by Tom Butt | Dec 12, 2025 | Uncategorized
Architects call on Shalom Baranes Associates, the new White House East Wing ballroom designer, to decline Trump’s commission By Daniel Jonas Roche • December 11, 2025 • Architecture, East, News, Professional Practice The...
by Tom Butt | Dec 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
This really fun event with great auction items funds the Richmond Rotary community projects for the entire year. Hope to see you there! Holiday Auction 2025 Want to receive TOM BUTT E-FORUM delivered to your email address? Click here...
by Tom Butt | Dec 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
I signed on to the following letter from members of the American Institute of Architects (AIA) Historic Resources Committee December 8, 2025 Mr. Shalom Baranes, FAIA Shalom Baranes Associates Architects 1010 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Suite 900 Washington, DC...
by Tom Butt | Dec 9, 2025 | Uncategorized
One of the worst projects to be proposed in Richmond in recent memory is Marina Point, just east of the Rosie the Riveter Visitor Center, fronting on San Francisco Bay and the Bay Trail. This is the former “Richmond Rivera” site where voters rejected a...
by Tom Butt | Dec 8, 2025 | Uncategorized
When I was chair of the Contra Costa Transportation Authority (CCTA), Regional Measure 3 (RM3) was being drafted. As chair, I was granted some additional and substantial informal influence over determining the allocation of funding. With the...
