Tag: Demolition

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  From A to Zierfische; Obsolete Signs are Being Saved from the Dump at the Buchstabenmuseum in Berlin (Photos)

  The Buchstabenmuseum is an NGO dedicated to preserving, restoring and exhibiting old signs from Berlin and around the world. Its owners save obsolete letters from the dump and instead tell their stories. It is a museum like no other!

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  Future of London's Olympic Buildings After the Games isn't Assured

  London's successful bid for the Olympic 2012 Games was based on its commitment to a sustainable legacy: maintaining and reusing the buildings for athletic and community use after the big event. Happily, sanity has prevailed and

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  In Italy, a 300 Year Old, Fire Ravaged Farm House Is Restored

  We always say that the greenest brick is the one already in the wall: that it's better to revamp or refurbish an existing building than to build an entirely new one, even if the newcomer is as green as can be. Now the

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  Design Competition for Pedestrian Bridge in Providence, Rhode Island

  The City of Providence is staging a limited design competition to select the designer for the Providence River Pedestrian Bridge that will replace the old Interstate 195 Bridge that spans the Providence River.

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  In With The Old: Fixing What We've Got Comes Before Re-imagining What Might Be

  Over 40% of our energy consumption goes into powering our buildings, and we all know that we have to cut that Godzilla-sized footprint. But it seems that most of our efforts go to looking at new stuff rather than fixing the

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  Preservation is Staying Green: Stephanie Meeks Replaces Richard Moe

  I was saddened when Richard Moe announced his retirement as president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation; he was a huge influence, a strong and early voice delivering a message that the greenest building is the one already standing, that

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  Venice Biennale Has Artists' Boat and an Eco Note

  It's the Venice Biennale again, the celebrity and champagne studded art fair, where it's not clear whether the parties or the art are what's on show. Each country has a pavilion on the shores of the magical city, and each pavilion

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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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  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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  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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  Building Storeys: Making Historic Buildings Hip

  Zaha and Rem don't do building restoration; it is green and creates a lot of jobs, but it's not cool and doesn't get you on the cover of the right magazines. Even at a conference like Greenbuild the subject doesn't

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  Buildings from the Last New Deal Not Surviving This One

  Eleanor Roosevelt opened Greenhills, Ohio in 1938- "a healthier, more verdant environment, with shopping, recreation and nearly 200 small modernist apartment buildings and houses surrounded by a forest." They were in the National Register of Historic

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  Kinder, Gentler Demolition: A Bright Idea from Japan

  The implosion of a Las Vegas hotel is, like everything else in Sin City, a spectacle, with fireworks, multi-story countdown lights, crowds gathered to watch, and a big, cool

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  ReFab Now: We Can Solve It Gets Renovation

  It is nice to see that Al Gore's We Can Solve It people get the benefits of renovation and upgrading as well as new green building. Not only does it reduce our carbon footprint, but creates more jobs- as Donovan Rypkema pointed our earlier, new

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  The Greenest Brick is the One That's Already in the Wall

  TreeHugger is full of photovoltaic glass and ground source heat pumps, but ultimately all of those "green gizmos", as Donovan Rypkema called them, cost a lot of money to buy and to maintain. But he is just one of a growing movement of architects who

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  GreenBuild: Richard Moe Has a Tough Row to Hoe

  I really felt sorry for Richard Moe, and a bit angry, too. Here he is, the keynote speaker for Thursday morning, with a hall that can seat thousands, and there are maybe two hundred people. Downstairs they are crowding in to other seminars on how to

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  Diane Keaton on How We Treat Old Buildings Like Plastic Bags

  Besides being a terrific actor, Diane Keaton is a former board member of the Los Angeles Conservancy and is currently a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She bemoans the loss of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

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  Deconstructing Cleveland: The Art of Taking a House Apart

  There are 8,000 vacant houses in Cleveland; the city is demolishing 1,100 by the end of the year. You can push them down and take them to the dump in a day, or you can carefully deconstruct them and recover almost