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Oct
26
2011

This is very heartening:
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...Ziegler’s approach was about adding the positive to diminish the negative, not erasing the negative and expecting a positive to emerge.

In the end, the PHLF approach has been enormously successful. A variety of strategies, as opposed to a master plan, were established that could be applied according to different local conditions. Residents were involved in the process from the beginning. The worst vacant properties were purchased from absentee landlords and restored.
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Jun
18
2010

A real "wow!" post by Scouting New York on getting a tour of Manhattan's 5 Beekman Street, boarded up for decades. Click through for stunning photos.
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In 1940, the atrium was boarded up due to firecode violations. Completely hidden, later tenants would never know of its existence, seeing only a walled corridor (though according to a recent NY Times article, a secret door offered those who stumbled upon it an amazing discovery).
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Apr
17
2010

Wish I could attend this event:
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Old is the New Green:
Starbucks Center
Presented in Partnership with the Cascadia Region Green Building Council Seattle Branch.

This iconic building was built in 1912 by Union Pacific from Yesler Mill timber to house the Sears and Roebuck & Co. store. At 2.1 million square feet the LEED-EB certified building is the largest multi-tenant building in Washington State and helped to breathe life back into Seattle's SODO neighborhood.

Kevin Daniels, President of Nitze-Stagen and Daniels Development, will speak to the challenges of being a trail blazer in sustainable preservation and what made this project such a success. Don't miss the chance to get an insider view at what makes Starbucks' global headquarters a leader in green preservation.
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Jan
24
2010

Surprised to see that Victoria's Johnson Street Bridge made it into the "Journal of Commerce - Western Canada's Construction Newspaper" (Jan.25/10) ...for its heritage value (not its potential as a mega-replacement construction project)! Right on. (Would love to know the story behind JSB's entry into the the Journal of Commerce...)

From the article:

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"The main opening span is 148 feet in length and when in the open position is balanced over a 45-foot fixed span. The Strauss Bascule Company Ltd. prepared the design for the bascule spans and the operating machinery.

The superstructure of the bridge was fabricated in Walkerville, Ontario and contains 100 tons of steel. "

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Sep
11
2009

Hillis's article looks at how historical and contemporary architecture is "blended" in a "historically centric city such as Paris." Focus on Les Halles; new Ministry of Culture building; Le Fouquet Hotel on Avenue George V; etc.

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Dec
27
2008

Discussion of the work of architects Stephen Taylor (London) and Ryue Nishizawa (Tokyo), featured at an exhibition at the Canadian Centre for Architecture in Montreal. Focus on how housing can be integrated into the fabric of the city.

I'm thinking about this in relation to heritage.

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  • city of houses
  • city of gaps
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Nov
30
2008

Hume looks at facadism - when it works, and when it doesn't.

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      Yule Heibel on 2008-11-30

      - example of facadism at its worst

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  • Every major city – Paris, Dublin, New York – does it. It's just that Toronto does it so often.

    "We have a lot of façadism in Toronto," admits one of the city's leading heritage architects, Michael McClelland. "And almost no one likes it. But it's indicative of Toronto's political climate. Though it's easy to deride façadism, what do these people propose in its place? People who simply dismiss it don't understand. It's often the agreed-upon compromise."

    It has also become an acceptable method of balancing civic growth and architectural history. And despite the obvious drawbacks, it's a strategy that can work.

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Jul
19
2008

For future reference: Berger's article about a report by architectural firm RMJM, which identifies America's top 10 best-designed cities. His article focuses on the aspect of heritage preservation, which factors into RMJM's weighting and criteria, and he notes that Portland seems to beat out Seattle.

From there, Berger segues into whether or not (or to what extent) citizens are "pleased with their urban architecture," and observes that only LA residents are "less happy with their city" than Seattlites. (I'm not sure how he manages the leap from heritage preservation to 'being pleased" by contemporary/new architecture, but there you have it.)

Anyway, the really useful thing about this article is that Berger lists the 7 categories RMJM used to answer the question, "what makes a design-savvy city?", and also summarizes each aspect (with commentary of his own, in italics). All in all, the list makes a great framework for thinking about urban design.

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  • Public transit and urban infrastructure: Public transit systems can't stand still, even in mature transit cities like Boston and New York.
  • Portland was off the charts in transportation favorability, rating a higher approval than any of the top 10 cities at 79 percent.
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Mar
26
2008

Sparked in part by the designation of a "googie" (a Denny's diner) as a heritage landmark structure (a designation that the deep-pocketed owner, the Benaroya company, is going to fight in court), Berger reports on subsequent repercussions and discussions among "representatives from the state Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation, Historic Seattle, the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation, and others." The comments thread is pretty interesting, too, and there are parallels to what Victoria is facing in its considerations around "landmarking" modern buildings.

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  • Skolnik argues for a major revamp of historic preservation in Seattle. He is asking the city to appoint a citizen's task force to study the landmark processes and wants a moratorium on all landmark nominations and designations until they report. He believes the process needs to be more open, voluntary, incentive-driven, and re-organized to better represent the interests of property owners and developers. If not, he fears a backlash that could undo decades of preservation work.

    Perhaps most infuriating to preservationists, he has said the current process results in property takings, implying Seattle's rules aren't simply misapplied, but illegal. His critique goes to the foundations of a system that has been at work in Seattle for decades. As it is, he says the process is "victimizing property owners." The debate is whether landmarking should be voluntary, or regulatory, like zoning.

  • Defenders of the current system are equally adamant. Larry Kreisman of Historic Seattle argued that the ordinance was established with "great wisdom" and said that if Seattle only had voluntary landmarking, "the city would have lost some of its most important vestiges of city life," meaning places like the Pike Place Market and Pioneer Square. And Historic Seattle's Pete Mills said the landmark law was "One of the few gems that allows us to preserve what's important in the city."
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Jan
18
2008

- interesting article on Munich's "caught in aspic/ amber" mentality of resisting modernism, as well as height, which relates to Social-Democrat long-time mayor Georg Kronawitter's argument that Munich must be small and surveyable, which the author argues contributed to rent inflation and exacerbated problems of affordability generally. Kronawitter also had this dimwit idea that no new buildings anywhere in Munich could exceed the Frauenkirche (99m) in height.

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