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some thoughts on building design in wildfire prone areas and ignition resistant construction and wildfire mitigation efforts
I am spending a week in Louisville with family and I slid out for a bit to take a look at a couple of buildings that I remember fondly from growing up here. The first building is really only a small structure, a park gateway that was located across the street from my Dad’s office [...]
As the weather in Colorado is heading toward more much-needed snow, I am longing a bit for the sun and warmth of warmer climes. These photos were taken by me over the holidays in the Florida Keys. The Keys are a stringy set of islands connected by the Overseas Highway, like so many necklace beads. [...]
“I look at these photographs with a prurient interest, the way that I might look at the beds of notorious courtesans.” John Updike, in the Introduction to Jill Kementz’s The Writer’s Desk Joan Didion We have worked on a number of rooms that are creative work spaces. Some of these have been as “home offices” [...]
Most writing about architecture, beyond the usual documentary descriptions in professional magazines, involves the kind of communication that is broadly encompassed by the term criticism. It is the stuff of professional critics, some good, some not so much, and leans toward the academic. Most of its best examples are engaged with writing about cities – [...]
Overly fussy designs: check Haughty pose: check Little glasses: check Lots of attitude: check Some things never change. Mr. Lundborg’s visage was found in a 1908 newspaper down at the Carnegie Library for Local History here in Boulder, Colorado when I was doing some research on a project. The buildings shown above are still standing, [...]
I have written in the past about the efforts to save the Loveland Feed and Grain building. Novo Restoration, the group trying to save the building, sponsored some tours inside the building this last weekend and I took the opportunity to climb through this hulk, dragging my kids along for the ride. The building was [...]