Moscow that is no more, a historical preservation nonprofit (in Russian, but amazing historical photos of buildings, etc.)

Quoted: The Adaptive Reuse and Preservation topic pages in the online library at ArchitectureWeek, the new magazine of design and building.

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:

Quoted: Sustaining living standards is not the same thing as sustaining people’s freedom to have – or safeguard – what they value and to which they have reason to attach importance. Our reason for valuing particular opportunities need not always lie in their contribution to our living standards.

Beautiful photos of the Adirondacks with multimedia feature...

Quoted: After purchasing a vast unbroken wilderness in Adirondack Park that only loggers and a few hunters have ever seen, the Nature Conservancy will not preserve it all as public land.

This symposium takes place on September 28-29 at the Architectural League and the MoMA in New York.

Quoted: Following the seminal “Heritage at Risk” conference held in Moscow in April 2006, this symposium addresses pressing issues in the preservation of the modernist legacy of the most significant edifices built by radical Soviet architects in the 1920s and 1930s. Through two keynote addresses, six case studies, and a roundtable...

A great library with a focus on urban planning, historic preservation, buildings, public art, open spaces, real estate development, and zoning.

Quoted: a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote a more livable city. Since 1893, the MAS has worked to enrich the culture, neighborhoods and physical design of New York City. It advocates for excellence in urban design and planning, contemporary architecture, historic preservation and public art.

Looks like a smart way to preserve cultural traditions. It also seems much less dogmatic than some of the Christian camps that have been in the news recently.

Quoted: their attention focused on a long-haired Indian man in the front of the room, Swami Dheerananda, the mission’s Hindu teacher, or acharya.