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"I'm going to say a horrible word," warns University of Illinois at Chicago architecture professor Roberta Feldman as she discusses the public's conception of prefabricated housing. "Trailer trash. We link it with people we consider uprooted and mobile." Housing built in a factory doesn't exclusively mean double-wides, and it may offer an affordable alternative to the usual -- and more expensive -- practice of building homes from scratch on-site. But it can be hard establishing a comfort level with a something that often seems as much joke fodder as housing type.by my count thats two words. go ahead, say it again...
Renowned French conceptualist Yves Klein (1928-1962) produced a prescient body of work concerning the concept of air architecture – an immaterial architecture. From 1957 to 1962, Klein developed “Air Architecture,” a visionary project of living environments designed to reconnect people with the Earth and its elements. This concept represents an architecture that engages climate at the origin of its design process, with the ultimate goal of radically transforming society.
Birds and Glass Buildings
Published: March 7, 2005
To the Editor:
Re "A Cube in the Land of the Wheel: Redefining Public Space at the G.M. Building" (news article, March 2 [for the NYT]):
Although the redesign of the General Motors Building on Fifth Avenue seems attractive, it will likely be hazardous to birds, which cannot recognize glass as a solid surface.
Since 1997, New York City Audubon's Project Safe Flight has found more than 4,000 birds that have been killed or injured by flying into glass. The toll includes more than 100 species, 42 percent of which are in decline.
New York City Audubon is raising awareness in the architecture and design community.
We seek opportunities to work with the glass industry to develop a glass that is transparent to humans but visible to birds.
On March 11, architects and conservationists will focus on bird-friendly design at a conference in Chicago.
E. J. McAdams
Executive Director
New York City Audubon
New York, March 2, 2005
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john fekner industria
As he spoke, Mr. Shulman glanced at a poster made from his most famous photograph, a night scene of a 1959 glass-box home known as Case Study House No. 22, in which two women sit chatting in a room that appears magically suspended above an infinite spread of sparkling city lights. Designed by Pierre Koenig, the house was part of a much-lauded project promoting low-cost progressive design.
mid-west home buyers too short sighted to recognize great values in FLW homes:
Small rooms, big price: Wrights are tough sell
i dont think a 20% FLW premium over compribles is asking too much for masterpiece architecture!!!
especially with prices starting in the $300,000.00 - $400,000.00 range. then again, who wants to live in the mid-west?
In an arrangement known to few of the club's patrons, CBGB [OMFUG] subleases its spaces at 313 and 315 Bowery from the organization, which shelters 175 homeless people in the floors above the club. In 2001, the organization began efforts to collect more than $300,000 in back rent from the club. Although much of that has now been paid, the club faces eviction over remaining debts of about $75,000, both parties say.