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More Low-Tech Tips For Keeping Cool
TreeHugger recently presented our own 10 Overlooked Low-Tech Ways of Keeping Your Home Cool; Over at the National Trust Historic Sites Blog, Barbara Campagna provides another version with a lot of overlap, but some we didn't
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General Store Finds New Life as Architect's Home and Office
Muskoka, a district north of Toronto, is thought of as the playground for the rich and famous, even in a lousy summer like this one. But not everyone has a monster home on the lake; Architect Catherine Nasmith and landscape
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Prince Charles vs. the Architects: Planetizen Explains
For over 25 years, Prince Charles has been at the middle of the debate about the place of modern architecture. It started with 1984's "carbuncle speech" to the Royal Institute of British Architects, where
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New Stairs Open Up Old Building
Just because a house is historic doesn't mean you can't have a little fun. David Bülow and Per Appel of Primus Architekter had to preserve the exterior of a 1910 fisherman's house in Tisvildeleje, Nordsjælland, but built this stair as the main internal
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Sometimes, It's Easy to Hate Wal-Mart, Like When They Pave Over Historic Sites
We keep saying that it is getting harder to hate Wal-Mart, but then they so often show
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Another One Bites The Dust, Part 2: Nakagin Capsule Tower
Two years ago we covered the imminent demolition of the Kurokawa's iconic Nagakin Capsule Tower, where 140 prefab capsules are attached by high tension bolts to a central core. It is getting old, but is
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A Nation Watches Its Heritage Rot Away
I do go on about how the greenest brick is the one already in the wall, how old
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100 Abandoned Houses: Photographs of Detroit
The New York Times tells us about 100abandonedhouses.com, a website with stunning photographs of abandoned houses in Detroit, shot with an old Hasselblad.
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Adam Vaughan Steals Show at Ontario Heritage Conference
In a crowd of authors and journalists like Jim Kunstler, Gord Hume, Clive Doucet and Alfred Holden of the Star, the surprise of the Ontario Heritage Conference was how Adam Vaughan, a rookie city councillor from Toronto, stole the show with his
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Blair Kamin: Historic preservation and green architecture: friends or foes?
Blair Kamin is the Pulitzer-winning architecture critic of the Chicago Tribune, and a contributing editor of Architectural Record. He talked to the Michigan Historic Preservation Network last
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It's National Preservation Month; Why You Should Care
Having co-opted Steve Mouzon's phrase The greenest brick is the one already in the Wall, we note that this is the first day of National Preservation Month, in the US, designed to raise awareness about the power historic preservation has to protect and
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A Tour of the Michigan Central/ Canada Southern Railway Station (slideshow)
Last week we posted on the revitalization of the Michigan Central/ Canada Southern Railway Station in St. Thomas, Ontario. Model railroader Tim Warris visited the station for a show, and took some extraordinary photographs of the building, which he
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Preservation Green Lab Opens in Seattle
The National Trust for Historic Preservation keeps saying that the greenest building is the one that is already built, and they are building a lab to prove it. Its goal is to to find ways to promote green development by re-using and retrofitting
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A Visit To A Very Different Michigan Central Station
Yesterday I wrote about the possible loss of Michigan Central Station in Detroit, which I considered a tragedy. Citizens of Detroit disagreed, saying that there was no money, there were other greater needs, and that it was too far gone to be saved.
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Michigan Central Station To Be Demolished With Stimulus Money
Anyone who cares about architecture should be just sick about what is going on in Detroit: The mayor wants an "emergency demolition" of one of the city's greatest buildings, the Michigan Central Station, designed by the
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KPMB Make the Old Work With the New in Denver
George Bush once said "I don't do nuance" and most big name architects don't either, subtlety not being a virtue among the stars of the profession. This was never true of Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, who manage to weave
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Quote of the Day: Richard Moe on "This Old Wasteful House"
Richard Moe at Greenbuild Richard Moe is the president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is concerned that many of our old buildings will be sacrificed on the altar of energy conservation. He writes an op-ed in the New York
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New York Times Critic Visits Robin Hood Gardens
It takes a lot of energy to make concrete, and a lot of concrete to make a building like Robin Hood Gardens, the Alison and Peter Smithson icon that is under threat of demolition. TreeHugger has covered the campaign to
