Tag: Ban Demolition
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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.
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My Favourite Stories of 2011: June
Two stories that were deeply important to me, and it seems to nobody else. I try to pump some life into them here
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Will Downtown Comebacks Reverse Commercial Sprawl? Yes, It is Happening Right Now.
In Toronto today, a monster new grocery store is opening in an old hockey rink. Purists are appalled, but I am excited.
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Renovation and Repair Creates Way More Jobs, Uses Far Less Material Than New Construction
In a terrific article in the Atlantic, Emily Badger writes about the environmental and job benefits of renovation and rehabilitation.
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The Battle Over Tornado-Ravaged Goderich, Ontario, Formerly "Canada's Prettiest Town" (Slideshow)
Image credit Lloyd Alter Goderich, Ontario was billed as "Canada's Prettiest Town" and it truly was. It had one of the country's most beautiful town squares, (actually, a town octagon) filled with trees, and surrounded by a great collection of Victorian
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Gray Area: Provocations on the Future of Preservation
The mixing of old and new is one of the toughest things to deal with in architecture. Do you try to blend in, doing faux old, or stand out in contrast? Does everything get perserved in amber or can
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Green Lessons From Mid-Century Modern Houses
I do go on about the green lessons we can learn from old buildings, but usually talk about those designed before the thermostat age. Greg Lavardera tweets about a post listing 10 Forgotten
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More Architectural Tricks To Keep Cool Without Air Conditioning
We have covered many of the old ways of keeping cool, but Matt Grocoff points out another at the Old House Web: Cupolas. He writes:
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The Architecture Lover's Manifesto
TreeHugger readers have heard Carl Elefante's rallying cry "The greenest building is the one already standing" many times; now architectural writer Dave LeBlanc presents the
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Samaritaine Store In Paris FINALLY Being Restored By SANAA
Urban renewal and restoration is tough, even in vibrant, successful cities (or perhaps, particularly in vibrant cities). The Samaritaine Store in Paris has been boarded up for years, while people waited to learn what would happen
