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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.