Tag: Ban Demolition - Page 3
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Republicans Introduce Bill That Kills Historic Preservation Funding (Along with Public Broadcasting)
Back in February, we wrote Preservationists Outraged As Obama Cancels Building Restoration Programs. The programs survived because they created 16,000 jobs at very low cost; Donovan Rypkema calculated it at 1/18th the cost of jobs created in the
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If Old Buildings Are So Green And Efficient, Why Do We Keep Losing Them?
I do prattle on with quotes like Carl Elefante's "the greenest building is the one already standing" and the Steve Mouzon version "The greenest brick is the one already in the wall." I love to quote Richard Moe:
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Sleep Snugly Behind 13 Foot Thick Walls In Converted Martello Tower
Three years ago we wrote about the amazing conversion of an english Martello Tower into a home by Piercy Conner Architects. There wasn't a lot of information available about it at the time, but there is now; It was short-listed
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University of Minnesota Welcome Center Mixes New Tech With Old Building
I am fond of repeating Steve Mouzon's dictum that the greenest brick is the one that's already in the wall. That's why I was attracted to MS&R;'s welcome center for the University of Minnesota at Morris. It is a
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Solar Trees At Cambridge: Elegant or Eyesore?
Cambridge University has installed "solar trees" next to what TreeHugger Bonnie calls "some of the most exquisite and ancient buildings in the world." She doesn't like it; commenters in her post do.
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Greene And Greene House Renovation Is The Antithesis Of Green
Greene and Greene's Darling House in Claremont, California is a recognized historic home that was truly green in the way houses are supposed to be. Jeff Book writes in the National Trust for Historic Preservation's journal
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The Greenest Brick: City Votes to Demolish Entire Street of 41 Historic Buildings
We do go on about how The Greenest Brick is the One Already in the Wall, how old buildings have embodied energy, how renovation creates more jobs than new construction, and how old buildings are ultimately
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"Old is the New Green" According to National Trust For Historic Preservation
Talk about planning ahead. I love this story:
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15 Good Reasons To Save Old Schools
In Owen Sound, Ontario, they just voted to permit the demolition of this historic 1891 school, but promise a "greening" of their site plan. We learn about this on, yes, Historic Schools Day. We go on and
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Seattle High-Rise Being Demolished- It's All Of Nine Years Old
Buildings have a lot of embodied energy and should last a long time, particularly if they are built of concrete. Concrete is responsible for for a lot of CO2; perhaps as much as 7% of worldwide emissions. But in Seattle, the McGuire Apartments are
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The Greenest Building is the One Already Standing
Many small towns are experiencing a comeback these days; a combination of aging boomers and the green movement, combined with technology that lets people work just about anywhere make them a viable alternative to urban and suburban life.
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Why Are So Many Paul Rudolph Buildings Being Torn Down?
While out running in Sanibel Island, Florida, passing monster house after monster house, I came upon a small, lovely gem of modern architecture by the side of the road. It took about three seconds (google "small, modern, sanibel) to
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Steve Mouzon on The Top Ten for 2010
Steve Mouzon is a New Urbanist architect who understands old buildings and explains them well on the Original Green. He comes up with his trends for 2010, but they really should be considered trends for
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Can Heritage Buildings Be Called Green?
We spend a lot of time saying that Heritage buildings are green, but Vancouver architect Gair Williamson, who has worked on a lot of them, says only "sort of" in an interview with a construction industry
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Another One Bites The Dust: Walter Gropius Buildings Being Torn Down in Chicago
It is hard to get people excited about saving buildings from the 50s and 60s. But then it used to be hard to get people excited about saving Frank Lloyd Wright
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Quote of the Day: Edward Hollis On Buildings "Built to Change"
Lloyd Alter Edward Hollis is the author of The Secret Lives of Buildings; He writes in the Guardian about saving and fixing buildings in the context of our environmental crises: We face very serious decisions about our environment, and it's tempting to
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New Buildings from Old Bunkers in Bremen
There are a lot of bunkers in Bremen and around Germany; after WWII most were left in their original form "due to a so-called "civil protection commitment" to keep the building free in case of an emergency requiring people to use it for protection
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Why are Old Buildings Like Green Gadgets?
Treehugger and Planet Green tech diva Jaymi recently wrote an article listing the three basic traits of green gadgets:
