A section of Eero Saarinen's 1962 TWA Terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport known as the "trumpet" will be getting a little fanfare of its own sometime next week; the piece will be moved in preparation for construction of the new JetBlue Airways terminal.

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The new JetBlue terminal should be completed by Fall 2008, Baldwin estimates. In the meantime, the trumpet will have to be moved twice—once to make way for construction, and a second time to attach the structure to the back of the new terminal, where it will be used as an observation deck. If all goes as planned, the trumpet will be settled in its final location sometime this summer.

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Long before IKEA's prefabricated houses, there were Lustrons. Carl Strandlund's Lustron Corporation manufactured metal ranch houses between 1948 and 1950, and Americans built 2,680 of them.

Arlington, Va., just outside Washington, D.C., has six Lustron houses—or it did until this week, when a new owner demolished the so-called Barcroft Lustron, constructed in 1949.

A local group, the Arlington Heritage Alliance, tried to save the Barcroft Lustron. One of its members tried to convince owner Andy Symonds to allow the group time to disassemble and store it.

Bulldozers destroyed the 1,085-square-foot house on Monday to make way for a new residence on the .22-acre site. "It was not fiscally reasonable," to stall construction of his new five-bedroom house, Symonds says. "[The Lustron] was not practical for today's day and age."

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Oh that Paul Williams, I was thinking of the short blonde guy from "The Phantom of the Paradise" and "Hollywood Squares"
- jaschwarz (guest) 4-28-2007 11:33 pm [add a comment]

recd this email from justin commenting on the pheonix bank:

I was mildly amused that you posted the Bank demo article from the
Arizona paper.... The VNB in question was where I opened my first
checking account at 19, when I first moved to Phoenix from NYC in 1981.
The building is fabulous, but the fight is going to be a long, hard
slog. Most Phoenicians are apathetic about stuff like this, and are
more into the Kierland Commons look [oh, barf].......
Just today, a bunch of us gathered round at the White Gates Drive
Residence (designed, built and occupied by Al Beadle) - it was almost
demolished, but a really nice lady stepped in and bought it in order to
save it. It's gutted, and needs major work, and the neighbors want it
gone, but we're gonna save it if it's the last damn thing we do! So we
volunteered to assist in any way we can. Me, an architect, a concrete
guy, etc. http://www.modernphoenix.net/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2445
The photo in the article is by Alison King - she and her husband
Matthew are good friends of mine. They own www.modernphoenix.net (by
the way, I'm 'modernlover' on that board, as well). I can't believe I
didn't bring this to your attention before, but the blog has all my
attention these days. My presence was specifically requested at the
White Gates place, however, and I couldn't turn my back on that one!
Mr. X (my friend Shawn) runs the Al Beadle Archives....
http://www.beadlearchive.com/ and the owner frantically contacted him a
couple of months ago, as the city has come down hard on her about the
condition of the house. Check the photos from the ModPhx thread, and
spread the word, man! http://recentpast.org/

Justin