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Questions for Alexandre Nucinovitski
The Times’s longtime architecture critic breaks his silence and reveals what compelled him to come forward with his allegations, how high up the conspiracy goes, and what (or who) is the “Bilbao-12.”
Some have suggested that your dismissal from the paper was imminent and that your recent indictment of your peers is nothing more than a marketing ploy to promote your upcoming book.
I came close to jumping ship several years ago—right after Architectonica opened its new hotel in Times Square—but they threw us a bone and let us go to town on it, sensing that the public would become overly suspicious if we showered it with praise. Then, two years ago, I was all set to break ranks again, following the universal praise for the Morphosis student dormitory in Toronto, but they preempted me by awarding Mayne the Pritzker, thereby making any attack open to attack. My tipping point came following the opening of the addition to the Denver Art Museum. At first they tried to appease me by granting me a paragraph to vent my frustrations—as long as it was limited to something trivial, like its functionality—but the night before I was to send in my review, I had a nightmare that I was trapped in a maze of Serra sculptures while thousands of people looked down from their office windows and laughed at me.
In your letter of resignation/suicide note you make numerous references to the “Bilbao-12.” Can you ex-plain what this was?
The Bilbao-12 was an “informal” meeting of twelve of the top architecture critics that took place just prior to the opening of the Guggenheim. Due to pending legal actions, I’m unable to reveal any names except to say that the meeting was also attended by a high-ranking deputy from the World Bank, an economic adviser from the UN, and a Washington lobbyist from the aluminum and titanium industries. The case was made for using architecture to revitalize the economies of postindustrial cities by establishing a brotherhood of “superstar” architects who would generate spectacles bolstered by our reviews, creating “archi tourism,” or what has become known today as the “Bilbao Effect.” I should mention that we were also handed a list of complex words and terminologies that we were encouraged to use in our writings in the hope that they would find their way into the architectural vernacular, thereby confusing the public and allowing the acrobats to pass through board hearings with minimal opposition.
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"Yubi" Kirindongo started working as an artist in 1978. Since then he has participated in several international events, like the biennials of Havana (Cuba), of Johannesburg (South Africa) and of Sao Paulo (Brazil). In his own country he was given special recognition through the awarding of the prestigious Cola Debrotprize by the government of Curaçao. Kirindingo works with materials and metals, which when put together with his choice of subjects and the often rough textures of his work, a special energy is brought to what were once lifeless scraps.You can see his 'gallery-home-museum' on the western road from the city leading to the airport, only by appointment.
rago arts spring '08 modernist furniture auctions april 12th and 13th online catalogs
Phillip Lloyd Powell, a self-taught furniture designer who, working largely out of the public eye, produced elegant, sculptural pieces that are today highly prized by collectors, died on Sunday in Langhorne, Pa. He was 88 and lived in New Hope, Pa.images
Mr. Powell’s work has been shown at America House in New York. Mr. Powell died after a fall, said George Gilpin, a friend and business associate. No immediate family members survive.
Though Mr. Powell’s work is often described as midcentury modern, it routinely transcended the cool, clean lines associated with that style. His sinuous, textural furniture, which he painstakingly hand-carved from gleaming woods, often recalled forms from the natural world. A series of large walnut screens begun in the 1960s, for instance, features twining openwork that suggests a modern twist on Art Nouveau tendrils.
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We've featured some nice shedlike homes for birds and cats recently and here are two more animal sheds. Above is David Johnson's Goat tower in Illinois (at 31ft he claims it is the highest in the world) as featured by The Folly Fancier who also points to the marvellous Ohio Barns site which must be one of the finest collections of barn and barnlike builds on the interweb. And below, as featured on the intriguing Reclaimed Home ('low impact housing and renovation options for thrifty New Yorkers') is a Canine Cave from Scottie's Fine Art Caves.
from the march '08 olde good things news letter:
We are currently carefully removing the vast stained glass window from the American Airlines terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in NYC... Stay posted we'll have glass from here available soon...from the nyt
last week we discovered urban archaeology's salvage page with the marble slabs recovered from momas sculpture garden renovation. (nice) also found were terrific chicken-wire reinforced corrugated glass panels salvaged from the brooklyn museum. 44" x 28" for $850.00 ea (ouch!) can be found cheeper?
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Unlike many avant-garde artists of the New York school, the painters most centrally identified with the cool style in California don’t seem to have been trying to revolutionize their medium. An early label for the work of the four best-known practitioners — Karl Benjamin, Frederick Hammersley, Lorser Feitelson and John McLaughlin — was “abstract classicism,” which overstates their conservatism but highlights the formal equilibrium they sought.
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man do i hate PO-MO (permission to bulldoze it all granted - is that so wrong?)
An exhibition opens this week that celebrates one of the unsung heroes of 20th century design: the structural engineer. The show, titled Unseen Hands: 100 Years of Structural Engineering, will be at the V&A museum in London until September as part of the Institution of Structural Engineers’ 100th anniversary celebrations.
Sarah Buck, IStructE’s president, says: “Generally, galleries focus on aesthetics, but this exhibition is very definitely about the principles and techniques that make world-class structures actually work.” Unseen Hands is a mix of photographs, models, original drawings and videos centred around three themes: building high, enclosing space and spanning voids. Here’s a sneak preview …
Moisei Ginzburg's constructivist masterpiece, Narkomfin, has been attracting international attention ever since it was built in 1930. A classic example of a utopian vision of communal living that slowly backfired into state housing, the principles of its sleek design, where form followed function, were taught in architecture schools worldwide.
In the late 1980s, Narkomfin entered the world stage again, but for reasons less optimistic. The walls were crumbling and the smooth, ship-like facade had faded into an aging mess, where cladding fell away from different parts of the exterior and exposed its steel skeleton.
The building is in an even worse state today, but an exhibition of Ginzburg's work, at the Shchusev Museum of Architecture, opened with good news for preservationists. It was announced that MIAN property group would be restoring the building to its former glory and turning it into a boutique hotel. They will be working closely on the project with Alexei Ginzburg, grandson of the original designer.
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IBM building 25 destroyed by fire
Until now, it looked like the Arizona desert would swallow a mid-century modern house designed by Phoenix architect Alfred Beadle.
Last month, Lynda Maze, owner of the 1958 White Gates House, convinced a Phoenix court to give her time to renovate her blighted property, which she had considered razing two years ago. The city retracted two blight citations that neighbors had filed against the house.
"I didn't realize it would take possession of my body," Maze says of the White Gates House. "I'm not a historian, but I just got the house, spent some time up there and decided, 'I've got to do something.'"
yesterday i noticed the first blossoms on our forsythia popping on a low lying branch. not much change today with the rain and all. last year i posted this on march 31st.
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Leonard A. Lauder, the cosmetics executive and chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, said on Tuesday that his art foundation would give the museum $131 million, the biggest donation in the Whitney’s 77-year history.
The bulk of the money — $125 million — will go toward the Whitney’s endowment, boosting it to $195 million from $70 million, Mr. Lauder said in a telephone interview.
The Whitney called the gift one of the largest donations ever to a New York museum’s endowment. Mr. Lauder said that the money required the museum not to sell its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue at 75th Street for an extended period, although he declined to specify how long.
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Basic Photography for Architects
urban archeology made bathroom sink counters tops from 30" x 58" carra marble slabs salvaged from the abbey aldrich rockefeller sculpture garden renovation at moma. from todays nyt design magazine. sounds like a few loose slabs got sold off as is for gardens, etc. (those i covet)
odd take on a murphy bed
entire apartments furniture in a box
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A mountainside house being auctioned in Tennessee is perfect for anyone tolerant of gawkers and fascinated with outer space: It's built like a flying saucer.SOLD $135K
The home "landed" on a twisting road leading to Chattanooga's Signal Mountain in 1970 -- just after television executives grounded the run of the original "Star Trek" series. It will be sold to the highest bidder Saturday.
The circular house -- ultramodern when it was built -- is ringed with small square windows and directional lights and perched on six "landing gear" legs. It has multiple levels, three bedrooms, two baths and an entrance staircase that retracts with the push of a button.
Terry Posey, an agent with Crye-Leike Auctions of Cleveland, Tennessee, said the current owner has had the property only four months and didn't want to comment. Posey posted an e-Bay ad and said he already has a $100,000 bid.
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Paul Overy's excellent new book examines the roots of the movement and comes to some interesting conclusions as to why Modernism remains so very sure of itself. It is often taken as axiomatic, for instance, that somehow the brutal shock of the Great War with its industrial-scale killing capability stimulated the rise of what was still a fledgling movement in Europe. This is true to the extent that wars always accelerate the advance of technology - particularly the planes and ships beloved of such architects as Le Corbusier. It is also true that the example of new factory buildings, with their need for large, uninterrupted spaces, had much to do with influencing change in architecture. But Overy suggests that it has as much to do with late 19th century notions of healthcare. In particular, he believes, the cult of the sanatorium led directly to the new architecture.
In a Europe ravaged by industrial pollution and tuberculosis, with antibiotics yet to be discovered, the Victorian obsession with fresh air was taken to new heights. Sanatoria with large windows and open balconies were built in mountain resorts and forest retreats. Old ways of building did not lend themselves to this kind of healthcare. Doctors insisted on light and air, the dissolving of the barrier between indoor and outdoor. These new super-clinics could not be allowed to harbour germs and dust: they had to be efficient wipe-clean places. As early as 1907, the astonishingly modern-looking Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davos, Switzerland, contained all the key ingredients: flat roofed, big-windowed, concrete-framed, balconied, white-painted, minimalist. Architects were Otto Pfleghard and Max Haefeli. Structural engineer was Robert Maillart, deploying the Hennebique reinforced-concrete system. Nor was this the first of its kind - a prototype, also in Davos, had existed as early as 1902, developed by Dr. Karl Turban and architect Jacques Gros. The key was the openable all-glass, south-facing wall. It quickly became apparent that conventional bricklayers and carpenters could not produce such a building. New techniques were duly borrowed from industrial and transport buildings.
rt 66 revisited
endangered motels
From the Redwoods to the beaches, parts of California soon may be inaccessible to visitors.
Under the cloud of the Golden State's current fiscal crisis, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently asked each department and agency in the state to reduce its budget by up to 10 percent. The Department of Parks and Recreation came up with a proposal that sent a shock wave through the state: Close 48 state parks and reduce lifeguards at some beaches to cut $8.8 million from the 2008-2009 state budget.
checkpoint charlie at terminal 5
There will never be another surfer like Miki "Da Cat" Dora.via vz
All for a Few Perfect Waves is the story of Miki "Da Cat" Dora, the dashing and enigmatic rebel who, for twenty years, was the king of Malibu surfers. He dominated the waves, ruled his peers' imaginations, and—to this day—inspires the fantasies of decades of Dora wannabes who began to swarm his pristine paradise after the movie Gidget helped surfing explode into the mainstream and changed it forever—many say for the worse.
Disenchanted, Dora railed against the ruination; angry that the waves were no longer his own, he fought back—or found better things to do. Dora was also an avid sportsman, raconteur, philosopher, traveler—and scam artist of wide repute. When, in 1973, he finally ran afoul of the law, he soon abandoned America and led the FBI and Interpol on a seven-year chase around the globe. At the same time, he never gave up searching for (and occasionally finding) the empty waves and spirit of the Malibu he'd lost. From homes in New Zealand to South Africa to France, he continued to personify the rebel heart of surfing and has been widely acknowledged as "the most relentlessly committed surfer of all time."
The New York Times named him "the most renegade spirit the sport has yet to produce." Vanity Fair called him "a dark prince of the beach." The Times (London) wrote, "A hero to a generation of beach bums. He was tanned . . . good-looking . . . trouble."
On par with auteurs like Walt Disney, Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, and Art Spiegelman, Ralph Bakshi redefined animation and became a hero to countless generations of fans and filmmakers. If Disney’s life and work evoke images of chaste princesses in gleaming castles, Bakshi’s is a lady of ill repute camped out in a dim back alley. His name is synonymous with the great tradition of American cartooning. Bakshi is responsible for such memorable films and television shows such as: Fritz the Cat, the first x-rated animated feature film, The New Adventures of Mighty Mouse, Spider-man, Heavy Traffic, Cool World, and The Lord of the Rings, which celebrates its thirtieth anniversary in 2008.This is the only book chronicling the career of one of the pioneers of animation. Unfiltered highlights Bakshi’s early years, as well as each of his groundbreaking films, TV shows, and other projects. Unfiltered contains hundreds of pieces of pre-production art, animation cells, and never-before-seen rough sketches, line drawings, and doodles, all culled from Bakshi’s personal archives containing more than thirty years of his life’s work.With contributions from animators, producers, and directors who have been influenced by his work, this is a book like no other, about a man like no other.via vz
Braun
though not frequently updated rambling oaks blends container, farm and slab timber furniture with excellent results
and yep, im up to the r's on justins links page
So, Frank Lloyd Wright And Marcel Duchamp Walk Into A Meeting...
No, it isn't the beginning to a joke, this really happened! Much thanks to The New Modernist, Edward Lifson, who provided some photos and a link to a 7.5 hour recording of a meeting called "The Western Round Table on Modern Art" which took place in San Francisco in April, 1949. As Lifson points out on his blog:
The artists and critics opine on art in a changing culture, degeneracy, science, communication, the public, the critic, and other topics, including my favorite - the beautiful.
Check out the post on Edward's site and follow the link to download the entire recording to hear it for yourself. Beautiful!
adaptive reuse ditty at toh
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adaptivereuse does robin hood gardens
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lloyd kahn is previewing shelter publication's new book on independent builders of the pacific north west
life without buildings does death stars, bunkers and giant women
de madera y adobe - house in Arruda dos Vinhos Portugal
moving stairs at wtc
A 50-year-old pre-fab house designed by Jean Prouvé for French colonials in Africa is currently residing in the front garden of Tate Modern. The building, a sheet steel prototype, is one of only three built between 1949 and 1951. It was recovered from the Tropics, dismantled, restored to near mint condition and bought by American hotelier Andre Balazs. Shipped into London last month, it is about to be officially unveiled. Watch the video here to see it being built.
London-based architects Hawkins\Brown have added two new structures to a cluster of farm buildings at Wysing Arts Centre in Bourn, Cambridgeshire. The courtyard now includes an artists’ studio block and reception area alongside an existing converted storage barn and former cow sheds.
The main studio block at the front of the site provides nine studios over two floors. The alternating rhythm of the full-height glazing and timber louvres on the front elevation replicates the timber structure of the adjacent building, a 17-century farmhouse.
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modern design 901 is a design blog with special emphasis on george nelson clocks and clock designers irving harper and howard miller.
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After 100 years the painting of the Forth Rail bridge is to come to an end, depriving the English language of one its most treasured similes. With three coats of a special paint, similar to that used in the offshore oil industry, painting of the bridge is due to be completed in four years. The paint has an estimated life-span of 25 years, although it is hoped it will last closer to 40 years.
But what Network Rail, the owners of the Forth Bridge, stands to gain in productivity, the English language could lose a cherished aphorism.
According to the Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms, if "repairing or improving something is like painting the Forth Bridge, it takes such a long time that by the time you have finished doing it, you have to start again".
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Curator Nader Vossoughian talks about the exhibition (filmmaker/interviewer: Henk Augustijn).via reference library
Watch this movie on YouTube.
Next chapter in the ‘After Neurath' project. around the Austrian philosopher, sociologist and economist Otto Neurath (1882-1945), who lived in The Hague from 1934 until 1940. The exhibition focuses on Otto Neurath's relationship with architecture and his influence on urban development. Especially his ideas about the democratization of public space and how to reconcile the intimacy and tangibility of the ancient polis with the anonymity and diversity of the global metropolis have been very influential to protagonists like Paul Otlet, Cornelis van Eesteren, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky andLe Corbusier and resound in mainstream architectural and urban thinking of today.
The exhibition ‘The Global Polis' shows the innovative ideas about the modern metropolis of Neurath -and his famous protagonists- based on the social-democratic ideals of the interbellum. Neurath was especially eager to promote participatory forms of democratic exchange (a 'global polis'), and this exhibition shows his attempts in disciplines as varied as architecture, urbanism, graphic design and planning.
The exhibition is structured in three 'acts'.
The first act, 'The Communal City,' examines Neurath's role in Vienna's extraordinary 'self-help' cooperative settlement movement, which inspired tremendous optimism in architects and planners.
The second act, 'The World City', examines Neurath's efforts to internationalize mass education and social enlightenment through collaborations with Paul Otlet, Le Corbusier and others.
The third act, 'The Functional City', looks at his work with the Congrès Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne (CIAM) and the planner and architect Cornelis van Eesteren specifically. This section explores Neurath's struggles with the mass media and modernist architecture on the eve of the rise of fascism in Europe. It also raises deeper questions about the links between culture and politics today.
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the glass house the movie
Historic Green: New Orleans: March 8-23...students and young professionals will...help the people of the Lower 9 revitalize their community...an unprecedented opportunity to integrate sustainable practices with preservation of a place.- Historic Green
Government reports confirm that half of the working poor, elderly and disabled who lived in New Orleans before Katrina have not returned. Because of critical shortages in low cost housing, few now expect tens of thousands of poor and working people to ever be able to return home.
The Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) reports Medicaid, medical assistance for aged, blind, disabled and low-wage working families, is down 46% from pre-Katrina levels. DHH reports before Katrina there were 134,249 people in New Orleans on Medicaid. February 2008 reports show participation down to 72,211 (a loss of 62,038 since Katrina). Medicaid is down dramatically in every category: by 50% for the aged, 53% for blind, 48% for the disabled and 52% for children.
Doug Tallamy and his wife, Cindy, built their house seven years ago in the middle of 10 acres of former hayfields.
But they don’t sit inside much. Most of their spare time is spent cutting Oriental bittersweet and Japanese honeysuckle out of cherry and oak trees. They saw down thickets of autumn olive and multiflora rose and paint the cut stems with an herbicide that goes down into the roots and kills them.
The land was so thick with multiflora rose that they couldn’t walk, so Mr. Tallamy cut paths with hand loppers. They work with handsaws, not a chain saw. And they paint on the herbicide, rather than spraying it, because they don’t want to damage the treasures below: under those thorny rose bushes might be seedlings of black oak, Florida dogwood, black gum or arrowwood viburnum, which, if protected from deer, could flourish in the cleared space.
A meadow cleared of autumn olive can resprout with goldenrod, joe-pye weed, milkweed, black-eyed Susans and many other natives crucial to wildlife.
It’s hard work, but the Tallamys love being outside. And they share a vision, an imperative, really, that Mr. Tallamy lays out in a book, “Bringing Nature Home” (Timber Press, $27.95), published in November.
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shelter institute / timber framing classes and custom timber frames
mullet architecture
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10 chic therapeutic spaces from home rejuvenation
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Pipe leaks in New Orleans are so bad that the city is losing millions [50+] of gallons of fresh water a day. The New Orleans Sewerage and Water Board is struggling to rebuild a system that was a mess even before Hurricane Katrina. John Burnett reports.npr news
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adam kalkin must have been watching too much monster garage judging from his silly illy push button house
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the schnab
Of course, Schnabel’s West Village building is an entirely different kind of Gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork, but it is born from the same fervent attitude that makes Giotto’s blue-backed frescoes so unforgettable. It also owes a huge debt, which Schnabel freely acknowledges, to two American architects: Addison Mizner and Stanford White. Schnabel’s experience with both architects’ work is personal and direct. He has rented a Mizner house in Florida in the past, and owns an 1880s fishing “cottage” by White in Montauk, on Long Island, where Schnabel spends lots of time painting and surfing. The West 11th Street building abounds in nods to both architects, all of them put through the Schnabel strainer. He’ll take a Mizner fireplace, for instance, and create a pumped-up version by, in his words, “putting some balls on it.” Likewise, the kitchens in each of the Chupi residences—with their board-and-batten wooden ceilings, emerald-green terra-cotta tiles, and cast-concrete countertops dyed chromium-oxide green—are straight out of Schnabel’s Montauk house, though re-tuned. None of this is simple mimicry. What’s interesting is how Schnabel mixes references to White and Mizner into a global iconography, including Moorish, Turkish, and Venetian touches, motifs the architects were attracted to themselves.
black barn thread:
The 8bit, lo-fi artist Tom Moody says he likes “tunes built around a single sound.” His song “Nice Nemesis,” a post about which on Moody’s blog included that clause, is certainly simple enough to meet those standards (MP3). The question, though, is which single sound is the center of this poppy little merrygoround.
Is it the occasional burst of a human “huh”? The sonar ping that marks the passing of every few bars? The Casio dub that suggests a video-game simulacrum of a nightclub? The crackling percussive foundation? The appearance of a little watery melodic sequence that serves as a kind of bridge? Somehow all those elements, and more, are sequenced into just over two minutes, and yet the overall effect is, indeed, bright and easy. More details at tommoody.us.
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Ma'am,
I do believe Don did not deserve that reply for only trying to help. He has helped me several times and I have found his advice to be good.
As for your barn, I believe he is spot on with his advice to you. In my younger days, I used to help my father build pole barns and occasionally we worked on a much older barn. I loved that kind of work but it was usually done for the love because the owners wanted the dear old barn saved but didn't want to spend money on them. Once you put a nice roof on, and redo the foundation, and put some paint on it, they will last a long time just like when they were first built.
While a roof is no place for a novice, a foundation is very doable with a few tools, a plan, and perhaps a guiding hand. The first step is to evaluate what you have. Is any of the foundation salvagable? If no, you'll need to gather enough cribbing to support the whole barn. Railroad ties work well, or locally we have available used square guard rail posts and blocks which work well and you dont have to deal with the nasty black creosote. You can get by with just one jack but it will take a long time to get it jacked up plumb and square where you can start tearing out the old foundation and start the new. You can't take a barn with a 18" sag in the center and just start jacking that up to where it is straight. You have to work it a couple inches at a time to get it straight otherwise the barn will likely shift somewhere(a bad thing). Make sure your blocking and cribbing is secure. I prefer enough jacks you don't have to reset a hundred times but if you have time you can do it with one, jack up, put more blocks under, and let it back down and continue to go around until your even.
Once it is jacked up, plumb, level, and properly supported, you can start tearing the old foundation out. You say it is stone. Is it laid up with no cement of any kind? Is it just shifting and that is why it needs work or are the stones breaking? If the stones aren't breaking you can take them all out, pour a footer and reset them(I would lay them up with cement but that is your choice). If they are breaking then you need to decide if you want to spend the money to buy new stones, to pour cement, lay up block, etc. All of these options are perfectly doable for the average homeowner but you will know you put in an honest days work. It is nice if you can find someone who knows what they are doing to help you along. sometimes it is easier to do one section at a time. The best part about that is once the barn is supported so it won't fall down, you can work on the foundation one section at a time as the finances allow it. Periodically review your blocking/cribbing to make sure it isn't shifting or about to fall apart, though.
Once you get it all repaired, slowly let it down the way you jacked it up, a little at a time. If the roof is swaybacked, you can run a cable from eave to eave and put a come-along on it to bring it in a little at a time until the roofline is straight. With a little paint it will look as good as new and last a LONG time. The best part of it is being able to say I took this crappy looking barn that was about to fall down and I repaired it and made it better. Look at it now!
The only word of warning I have is if it is a bank barn instead of a yankee barn where the wall has soil on one side I would reinforce it/build it in a way that the frost doesn't push the wall in. Keeping moisture away from the wall helps a lot.
Good luck, and my advice is worth exactly what you paid for it!
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Ezra Stoller was a great artist, but it would be hard to deduce that truth from the 13 images on display here at the Addison Gallery at Phillips Andover Academy.(morehouse gallery images) (goog images)
Stoller (1915-2004) was an architectural photographer. He flourished during the heyday of the modern movement in American architecture, from the early 1940s through the early '70s. His images were often superior, in artistic quality and cultural influence, to the buildings they recorded.
So influential was Stoller's work that many architects didn't feel a building was complete until it had been "Stollerized" - a term that gives this exhibit its name. He came to have as much influence on architectural taste as did the architects whose buildings he recorded. He was the acknowledged leader of a generation of great photographers who believed in modernism and promoted it with evocative images.
Alas, you'd never guess Stoller's greatness from this show. I wasn't sure the prints on view were all even done by Stoller himself, but his daughter Erica, who manages his archive, believes they were. But the Addison's lighting is too dim to bring out the amazing tonal range of a Stoller print. By a chance that would have made the photographer grind his teeth, photos by his disliked West Coast rival, Julius Schulman, are better lit in this same Addison Gallery in another show called "Birth of the Cool."
in praise of not over-restoring light industry structures
endangered berlin graffiti scene. in post epoch nyc all the great writers have retired from outdoor walls. berlins current wild style pales in comparison. good luck anyway dudes.
We have an association of cabin owners TPCOA that have shares to the 67 acre property. Annual dues are about $750 /year and is classified as a summer residence only (1 April - 1 Nov) when the 3 park water pumps are on. We have dumpsters by the dam all year around as you can come up weekends in winter for ice skating. My place is insured for $62,400 but I'm selling for $55,000 + $30,000 land share owner. I like this better than any cabin here. The location is 125 Shawn Lane, as seen in the pics, in the middle of the park.via adman
The Tohickon Creek is stocked twice in spring and summer with trout and has white water rafting and kyacking in the fall.