petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 14 2009 | blogs, cities, art, adaptive reuse, urban, development
Interesting article on temporary galleries by gravitymax...
Quoted:
Retail spaces present a unique kind of site-specificity, from the shape of the space to traces of leftover consumerism.
petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Jun 29 2009 | architecture, adaptive reuse, preservation, design- petersigrist | Shared With: Everyone - Sep 16 2008 | planning, adaptive reuse, urban, cities, development, environment
Quoted: Recycling New York’s Industrial Past: Inspiration from Home and Abroad
Wednesday, October 22, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
New York’s historical industrial buildings are one of the city’s greatest resources. Manufacturing spaces and factories with their open floor plans and sturdy construction are highly adaptable to varied uses. This program will focus on industrial retention and adaptive reuse as a means of preserving industrial buildings, illustrated with imaginative projects from near and far. Among the projects is the Austin, Nichols & Co. warehouse, currently undergoing a tax-certified rehabilitation. Panelists include:
Related Content from Around Faves
urban
-
The ice house project is interesting. The pictures and info about Detroit housing really good, especially the ones that compare circa 1950 to now.
1 FaverViewed: 6 TimesQuoted: Detroit is a depopulated city with many areas returning to open space prairie land
- petersigrist - May 21 20091 FaverViewed: 3 Times
- gravitymax - Apr 24 20092 FaversViewed: 2 Times
city
-
Here's the definitive list. GR isn't in the top ten; it's 30th. Obviously, faulty data. At least we have this going for us: "unusually high voter-participation." Minneapolis is 4th, Eunice. But there is Brett Favre...
1 FaverViewed: 15 TimesQuoted: Which metropolis has the most intelligent residents? The Daily Beast crunched the data on the brainpower of America’s 55 largest cities, from first-to-worst. How did your hometown rank?
- petersigrist - Oct 17 20092 FaversViewed: 7 Times
- drew_s - Jun 25 20091 FaverViewed: 4 Times
