Tag: Ban Demolition
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12 year old Manhattan Museum to be demolished, it's "too opaque."
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien join the Rubble Club, as The Museum of Modern Art tears down their nice bit of modern art.
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Lake|Flato Architects turn ghost buildings to gorgeous in urban revitalization
Most people would have torn this down and started over.
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Paul Rudolph's Orange County Government Center saved
They won't be demolishing it to build a cutesy pastiche after all
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RIP Danforth Toan, Architect of Brutalist Libraries
It isn't a fashionable style these days, but Toan used it to build some very impressive libraries.
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Getting the Lead Out: Removing It from Gasoline Helped Diminish Crime (and Raise IQs)
Can a gasoline additive have had this much of an effect on society? Multiple studies worldwide all say yes.
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140,000 Square Foot 17th Century Chateau de Bellevue Demolished "By Mistake"
Russian oligarch owner is shocked, shocked to find that his house is gone
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Mid-Century Modern Flying Saucer Saved in St. Louis
The greenest building is the one already standing, and it doesn't have to be a century old to be worth saving.
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The War on Curves: From Phoenix to Chicago to London, Curvy Buildings are Under Attack
Frank Gehry better watch out, Bilbao might be next.
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50 Years Ago on this Day, The Architectural Preservation Movement Got It's Real Start in America With The Fight To Save Pennsylvania Station
The greenest building is the one already standing, and this is the anniversary of one of the greatest losses
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Lessons From The Past: How Living Like Great Grandma Is Green
Matt Grocoff describes how his ancestors lived " in an elegant cradle-to-cradle, closed loop pattern."
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How Does A Building Get To Its Hundredth Birthday? A Look at Fenway Park
By being lovable, durable, Accessible and Serviceable.
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Prefab and Preservation, Together At Last at Dovecote Studios
How many buttons does this push? Haworth Tompkins drop new steel box into old brick walls.
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Another Paul Rudolph Might Bite The Dust: Orange County Government Center Under Threat
The Replacement is a lovely Tea Party Colonial That is....efficient.
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Quote of the Day: Michael Kimmelman on the Value of Architecture
The New York TImes Critic Looks at Penn Station and Calls it Every Name In the Book.
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Proof that the Greenest Building is the One Already Standing Released in New Report from Preservation Green Lab
We have been saying it for years, but now finally have the numbers to prove it. But it isn't as simple as I thought it was.
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Embodied Energy and Green Building: Does it matter?
A long answer to a short tweet: "Has anyone published reasoned-out argument against embodied energy ? "
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On The Case For Saving Ugly Buildings
Who you calling ugly? Saving buildings isn't about cuteness
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San Francisco Owners of Historic Houses Fight Creation of Historic Districts
It was one of those stories that I did not think even worth posting about, but it started an interesting debate.
