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Rethinking Preservation: Alternative Beginnings: Cultural Significance of Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross Blue Shield Office Building (1960)

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Alternative Beginnings: Cultural Significance of Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross Blue Shield Office Building (1960). In early 2007, Paul Rudolph’s Blue Cross Blue Shield Building in Boston, MA was permitted for demolition. CUBE design research recognized the significance of the building and became interested in the potential of alternative preservation strategies. CUBE created a video of conceptual ideas ( www.modernpreservation.com. 2) Rethinks the office building space plan:. Responding against the flat refl...

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Rethinking Preservation: Transforming Policy: Rudolph’s Garage

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Transforming Policy: Rudolph’s Garage. Can preservation be transformative? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Is a design firm engaged in forward thinking projects of all scales. Founded on the principle that design affects the way we live, the three partners share a vision to create work that challenges traditional thinking. CUBE has offices in Massachusetts and North Carolina. For info visit: CUBEdesignResearch.com. Search Blog and Links. Center for Reuse of Bldgs.

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Rethinking Preservation: Why Do We Preserve?

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Why Do We Preserve? The built environment is a record of our cultural values, thought, and political systems. The act of preservation is a necessity in maintaining the authenticity of this record. The built environment is a dynamic organism sustained by human activity. As culture evolves, our environment expands, is re-inhabited, and is altered with invention. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Search Blog and Links. Center for Reuse of Bldgs.

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Rethinking Preservation: Preservation Doesn't Have to be an All-or-Nothing Proposition.

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Preservation Doesn't Have to be an All-or-Nothing Proposition. Cities are dynamic and living things. Preserving a building in its initial state isn't always the best solution. What if we considered the degrees of preservation between ALL and NOTHING? What if we thought of preservation through the ideas of artist Gordon Matta-Clark? What if we thought of preservation through the act of demolition? What if we integrated a building into new development? What if we re-inhabited a building by dissecting it?

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Rethinking Preservation: Financing Grand Visions: Rudolph's Riverview High School - Demolished June 2009

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Financing Grand Visions: Rudolph's Riverview High School - Demolished June 2009. Above competition winner: RMJM with Diane Lewis Architects and Beckelman Capalino, LLC in association with Seibert Architects. Paul Rudolph’s famed Riverview High School in Sarasota, Florida has now been demolished to make room for a parking lot. The Sarasota Architectural Foundation. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Search Blog and Links. Center for Reuse of Bldgs.

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Rethinking Preservation: Authenticity: Scarpa's Castelvecchio

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Scarpa’s Castelvecchio is the most inspiring example of preservation I’ve seen; where complex layers of ancient and recent history are both independent and dependent at the same time – it’s tectonic brilliance. Dear Cube design, I would suggest to revise your statement :. While Forlati’s ideologies are unclear, his renovation is consistent with Italian fascist architecture of the time – constructing falsities and myths in effort to support Italian culture superiority. Best regards, Silvia Forlati. Is a d...

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Rethinking Preservation: Ailing Downtowns: Rochester, NY

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Ailing Downtowns: Rochester, NY. Pictured above are two proposals for Midtown Plaza. Midtown Plaza, vacated in 2008, was designed by Victor Gruen. Local historian Dan Palmer believes the building is an integral part of the Rochester skyline and holds great architectural integrity inside and out. As the cultural entourage of the street (our cars, clothes, values, and gadgets) shifts daily, how should the building backdrop shift? What is the continuing value? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Rethinking Preservation: Continued...

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We've recently relocated our blogging on rethinking preservation to an area on our larger company web log: http:/ cubedesignresearch.com/go/preservation/. Here you'll find more interesting projects as well as our own recent renovation of an H.H. Richardson building in Boston where we've been testing many of our thoughts outlined here. If you'd like to see our other design work, please visit our portfolio at: http:/ cubedesignresearch.com. We'll see you there! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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Paul Rudolph (architect) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. October 23, 1918. August 8, 1997 ( 1997-08-08. Harvard Graduate School of Design. Yale Art and Architecture Building. October 23, 1918 August 8, 1997) was an American architect. And the Chair of Yale University's Department of Architecture. For six years, known for his use of concrete and highly complex floor plans. His most famous work is the Yale Art and Architecture Building. A&A Building), a spatially complex brutalist. Early life, education and personal life.

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Rethinking Preservation: What Do You Think?

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What Do You Think? How should we preserve architecturally significant buildings? Click on comments to see what others are saying and join the conversation! The proposals outlined in the movie are compelling alternatives to the traditional mode of preservation as an "all-or-nothing" solution. I wonder, however, if a possible 5th alternative could be "preservation as: concept" where the original ideas of the existing building are preserved, but its physical form is not. October 22, 2007. A major point of t...