Posted February 21, 20187 yr The Third Oldest Mcdonald’s in America to be Demolished in Oregon McDonald’s and their distinctive golden arches design was phased out by 1969, but there are actually three of the classic 1960s buildings still standing. According to food blog Eater, one of those buildings, located on Powell Boulevard in Portland is set to be demolished next month. Aside from special events, the McDonald’s hasn’t functioned as a restaurant for decades, as a newer one (functioning today) opened on the same lot in 1980. James Dotson is the franchise owner McDonald’s #425 store at 91st and Powell, and will close its doors on February 22. While Dotson will re-open the newly remodeled McDonald’s, the old one built in 1962 will be bulldozed to make room for a much more modern fast food joint – complete with self-service kiosks. Last year I had a chance to visit the one in Downey, CA (the oldest location that's still standing) which is actually still functioning as a McDonald's restaurant.
April 5, 20187 yr Author What an interesting approach for "redeveloping" a historic building... ::) https://www.abqjournal.com/1034632/old-deanza-will-make-way-for-new-deanza.html
April 5, 20187 yr The Third Oldest Mcdonald’s in America to be Demolished in Oregon This after McDonald's demolished the replica McDonald's No. 1 in Des Plaines, IL just a couple months ago, the first location opened in the Ray Kroc era.
August 22, 20186 yr Author HGTV buys the Brady Bunch House with plans to ‘restore it to its 1970s glory’ Will the Brady Bunch House return to the small screen? The famous home has sold to make-over powerhouse HGTV—which plans to “restore it to its 1970s glory.” The deal closed Friday, with the network shelling out top dollar for the Studio City residence. Property records show HGTV paid $3.5 million for the home—nearly double its $1.89 million asking price.
August 22, 20186 yr They outbid Lance Bass! "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
August 25, 20186 yr the old sunshine theater in manhattan is getting torn down for a glass box. here it is just before they put up scaffolding pre-modern nuevo sunshine theater — when it was sitting empty for decades historic sunshine pic replacement render
August 25, 20186 yr I'm surprised they didn't try to at least keep the facade. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
September 3, 20186 yr yeah a facadectomy would have been ok here — the theater front has a nice, clean design that somebody with more talent, vision and i suppose money could have done something creative with.
September 11, 20186 yr a few surprizes here — america’s 11 most endangered places for 2018: https://savingplaces.org/stories/11-most-endangered-places-2018
January 14, 20196 yr the old tappan zee bridge will be blown up on tuesday. the 62 yr old structure was deemed too dangerous to disassemble safely. restaurants are having demo view parties and you can watch along the hudson riverside — not sure if you can watch online somewhere though. it should be a pretty cool demo: https://amp.lohud.com/amp/2564967002
February 4, 20196 yr boomba! down comes the old bridge: https://www.lohud.com/videos/news/2018/05/08/video-tappan-zee-bridge-demolition-hits-milestone/590533002/
February 4, 20196 yr Wow, it took that long to bring it down. My brother in law works for the NY bridge authority that oversees that one. Christmas 2017 he was on the phone half the time in a state of emergency, discussing its imediate dismantle. They feared the old tappan zee would collapse at any moment.
February 5, 20196 yr ^ i wish there was the same sense of urgency given to the hudson river tunnels! http://www.fox5ny.com/news/a-look-inside-amtrak-s-crumbling-hudson-river-tunnels
April 16, 20196 yr Move Notre-Dame fire discussion here. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 20, 20196 yr That was the tallest building in the metropolitan area. Now that title (rightfully?) belongs to the PPL Building in Allentown. "You don't just walk into a bar and mix it up by calling a girl fat" - buildingcincinnati speaking about new forumers
May 20, 20196 yr ^Rightfully, indeed. It is a great building. Downtown Bethlehem has surprisingly few buildings of height. It is much quainter than I expected.
August 13, 20195 yr the sun set on the sunshine theater: https://ny.curbed.com/platform/amp/2019/8/7/20758727/sunshine-cinema-demolished-lower-east-side-east-houston
May 21, 20205 yr the new owner of the chrysler bldg is going to reopen the observation deck and the cloud club inside the crown and also add a food hall ... when they can that is: https://nypost.com/2020/05/21/the-chrysler-building-is-getting-a-61st-floor-observation-deck/
December 1, 20204 yr Artists (and Star Wars Fans) Advocate for the Preservation of a Brutalist Building in Tunisia The Hôtel du Lac in Tunis is a beloved icon of Brutalist architecture, with its unique inverted pyramid shape and imposing cantilevered stairs at each end. by Valentina Di Liscia November 25, 2020 Designed by Italian architect Raffaele Contigiani in the 1970s, the Hôtel du Lac in Tunis is a beloved icon of Brutalist architecture in Africa and beyond. more: https://hyperallergic.com/603682/artists-and-star-wars-fans-advocate-for-the-preservation-of-a-brutalist-building-in-tunisia/
January 1, 20214 yr a louis kahn campus in india may go: An Icon of Modernist Architecture in India Faces Demolition The World Monuments Fund is urging the Indian Institute of Management to reconsider destroying architect Louis Kahn’s historic campus. by Valentina Di Liscia December 31, 2020 The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is urging against the proposed demolition of parts of a modernist building complex designed by the American architect Louis Kahn in Ahmedabad, India. Built between 1968 and 1978, the structures house a library, conference halls, teaching facilities, and dormitories for the Indian Institute of Management’s Ahmedabad campus (IIM-A). According to the Indian Express, IIM-A’s board announced its decision to raze at least 14 of 18 dorms due to structural issues, including roof leakages and damp in walls. In a letter to alumni, the institute’s director Errol D’Souza argued that the exposed bricks — a hallmark of Kahn’s style — were not properly protected, leading to cracking in the brickwork. He also contended that replacing the buildings with new dormitories will increase housing capacity on campus from 500 to 800 students. more: https://hyperallergic.com/611693/an-icon-of-modernist-architecture-in-india-faces-demolition/ The Louis Kahn Plaza in Bangladesh. (image courtesy of the World Monuments Fund)
January 20, 20214 yr always a worry when they need to do this stuff: LPC Reviews Proposals To Renovate The Landmarked Lescaze House At 211 East 48th Street In Turtle Bay, Manhattan https://newyorkyimby.com/2021/01/lpc-reviews-proposals-to-renovate-the-landmarked-lescaze-house-at-211-east-48th-street-in-turtle-bay-manhattan.html
February 5, 20214 yr i had no idea this happened, ugh, a complete failure down in the research triangle -- -- so sad to lose this early 70s and very groovy paul rudolph space age masterpiece! Say It Ain't So Paul Rudolph’s Burroughs Wellcome headquarters building in North Carolina threatened with demolition By Matt Hickman • September 11, 2020 more: https://www.archpaper.com/2020/09/paul-rudolphs-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-building-in-north-carolina-threatened-with-demolition/ in 2012 Farewell, Old Friend Paul Rudolph’s Burroughs Wellcome headquarters razed in North Carolina By Matt Hickman • January 19, 2021 • Editor's Picks, News, Preservation, Southeast Wrote the Paul Rudolph Heritage Foundation in a January 18 Twitter thread reacting to the news: “Sadly, the Burroughs Wellcome demo is an update we wish we didn’t have to make. There are others threatened too (see the Govt Center in Boston) where people ‘claim’ Rudolph was not really involved as cover to allow demolition and/or redevelopment. The lesson of all of this is ‘if you like it — take a photo of it, talk about it, draw a sketch of it, take your students or family to see it, walk around and thru it, cause without you it will be gone.’ And if you see something at a Rudolph site — please let us know. We learned about BW from a local fan who sent us pics out of concern. Your voice and vigilance matters. Maybe not today but tomorrow it could save the next project.” more: https://www.archpaper.com/2021/01/paul-rudolphs-burroughs-wellcome-headquarters-razed-in-north-carolina/
February 5, 20214 yr Wow, I was not aware of that building. Not everything from the 1970s was complete trash.
February 11, 20214 yr On 1/1/2021 at 1:30 PM, mrnyc said: a louis kahn campus in india may go: An Icon of Modernist Architecture in India Faces Demolition The World Monuments Fund is urging the Indian Institute of Management to reconsider destroying architect Louis Kahn’s historic campus. by Valentina Di Liscia December 31, 2020 The World Monuments Fund (WMF) is urging against the proposed demolition of parts of a modernist building complex designed by the American architect Louis Kahn in Ahmedabad, India. Built between 1968 and 1978, the structures house a library, conference halls, teaching facilities, and dormitories for the Indian Institute of Management’s Ahmedabad campus (IIM-A). According to the Indian Express, IIM-A’s board announced its decision to raze at least 14 of 18 dorms due to structural issues, including roof leakages and damp in walls. In a letter to alumni, the institute’s director Errol D’Souza argued that the exposed bricks — a hallmark of Kahn’s style — were not properly protected, leading to cracking in the brickwork. He also contended that replacing the buildings with new dormitories will increase housing capacity on campus from 500 to 800 students. more: https://hyperallergic.com/611693/an-icon-of-modernist-architecture-in-india-faces-demolition/ The Louis Kahn Plaza in Bangladesh. (image courtesy of the World Monuments Fund) UPDATE: https://www.archdaily.com/954387/louis-kahns-dormitories-for-the-indian-institute-of-management-ahmedabad-saved-from-demolition
February 16, 20214 yr atlantic city trump casino implosion tomorrow morning (weds, feb 17th) at 9am: https://abc7ny.com/society/trump-plaza-implosion-everything-you-should-know/10344911/
February 17, 20214 yr welp ac’s long national nightmare eyesore is over lol. i just watched the live stream demo — it was technically impressive looking. seems like it all went down very well. (real) billionaire carl icahn owns the property, which is on a prime lot for atlantic city. there are no plans for it.
February 17, 20214 yr 18 hours ago, mrnyc said: atlantic city trump casino implosion tomorrow morning (weds, feb 17th) at 9am: https://abc7ny.com/society/trump-plaza-implosion-everything-you-should-know/10344911/ Seems like there's some symbolism here:
February 18, 20214 yr ^ ah nice -- the angle i watched from live this morning was from up in that white hotel building on the right. i would say it was a better view. but here is one i found that was even better than that:
March 5, 20214 yr this is awesomely haunting -- frozen russian ghost towns -- former mining towns and gulags: Inside Russia's deep frozen ghost towns Francesca Street, CNN Published 5th March 2021 (CNN) — Photographed from above, acres of snow engulf buildings as far as the eye can see. Up close, the surreal details shine through; light fixtures adorned with intricate icicles, couches enveloped in snowdrift and sheets of ice spilling in from open doors, frozen in time. more: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/vorkuta-russia-frozen-ghost-towns/index.html
August 25, 20213 yr this can't be! Brooklyn's Grand Prospect Hall threatened with demolition. No, I've never been there, but it exists in the minds of anyone who remembers the infamous television commercials for this place (starring its owners) going back (at least for me) to the early 80's. I didn't realize Jimmy Kimmel did an update. http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 1, 20213 yr ^also, Michael Halkias died of Covid in May 2020. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/24/obituaries/michael-halkias-dead-coronavirus.html http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
October 18, 20213 yr this 142yr old handsome and historic school building was demo'd recently in new orleans. 😢 By Nicondra Norwood Published: Jun. 23, 2021 at 7:08 PM EDT|Updated: Jun. 23, 2021 at 7:42 PM EDT NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - A historic New Orleans building is now being demolished. Fox 8 takes a look back at its significance and the decade-long effort to save it. The hulking stone building greeted passersby on the I-10 for the last 8 years. Danielle DelSol is the executive director for the Preservation Resource Center of New Orleans. Del Sol said even with many renovations and the years exposed to the elements there was a lot to still love in the old structure. She said, “The building still was beautiful it still had wonderful arches is you know kind of eyebrows over the arched windows.” Built in 1879, The building was made to stand the test of time, but not progress. Students studied at the McDonogh 11 building right up until it fell into the footprint for what’s now LSU Health University Medical Center. “The building was 142 years old and so it for 132 of those years it was a school,” said DelSol. more and video: https://www.fox8live.com/2021/06/23/historic-building-demolished-after-decade-efforts-save-it/
October 27, 20213 yr via old curbed -- the 13 most senseless demos in detroit: https://detroit.curbed.com/maps/detroit-historic-buildings-demolished-mapped lafayette building
January 8, 20223 yr oregon state stadium demo from every angle — https://www.espn.com/video/clip/_/id/33016558
January 25, 20223 yr who knew a grain elevator could be this cherished? 🥴 http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
January 31, 20223 yr trying to save Cass Gilbert-designed train stations in the Bronx http://www.mainstreetpainesville.org/
April 9, 20223 yr oh nos — the famous nakagin capsule tower in tokyo to be demolished: https://hyperallergic.com/722768/tokyo-capsule-tower-will-be-demolished/
April 17, 20223 yr $100M revamp of the lever house seems ok, but still is worrisome: A $100 million redevelopment is bringing new life — and post-pandemic attention to employees’ needs and concerns — to the iconic 1950s landmark Lever House on Park Avenue between East 53rd and East 54th streets. The project’s centerpiece is an indoor-outdoor, tenants-only hospitality suite on the third floor designed to exploit market demand for wellness and collaborative-work facilities. more: https://nypost.com/2022/03/27/lever-house-in-nyc-to-see-new-life-with-100m-redevelopment/
May 24, 20223 yr the new haven breuer next to the ikea reopens as a hotel: Marcel Breuer’s Brutalist Pirelli Building becomes luxe hotel in New Haven By Linda Laban May 24, 2022 10:57am Updated How ironic: The building hovering in sight of busy traffic choked I-95 in New Haven, Conn., claims to be the first net-zero hotel in the nation. Opened this month, Hotel Marcel is big news in the energy-sucking hotel world, but there’s lots more to this building than a big hug to our planet: It is an architectural marvel, too. Hotel Marcel, a Tapestry Hotel by Hilton (room rates start at $229), to give this Brutalist icon its full new name, was originally designed as the Armstrong Rubber Company HQ by Bauhaus alum Marcel Breuer — a Hungarian architect and designer famed for his much-reproduced (hello, IKEA!) form-fitting minimalist chairs, and who eventually lived on East 63rd Street after fleeing Nazi Germany. Listed on the State and National Register of Historic Places, the Pirelli Building, as it became known, is a futuristic two-tiered block — which appears spookily suspended in the air from the highway — completed in 1970. Abandoned for decades, architect and developer Bruce Redman Becker of Connecticut-based architects Becker + Becker, bought the neglected building in 2020. more: https://nypost.com/2022/05/24/marcel-breuers-pirelli-building-becomes-hotel-in-new-haven/
April 28, 20232 yr Hedrick Building Reveals Original Ornate Architecture This is older, but it popped up on Facebook and it looked great. Cannot believe all the crap that happened in the 60’s. Built in 1928, the ten-story Hedrick Building at St. Mary's and Martin Streets was built originally with brick in brown and tan earthen tones. Ornate, flower detailing made of molded, fired terra cotta are featured prominently on the two bottom floors. ""The decoration is Spanish Baroque. Much like the telephone company building about three blocks away," Dr. Maggie Valentine says. She teaches architectural history and interior design at UTSA. The Spanish Baroque detailing can be found all around San Antonio on older buildings of that era. By 1963, however, the Hedrick's better days were behind it, so the owner changed the exterior spectacularly – and by current tastes, not in a good way. "If Timothy Leary was an architect, he would've designed this metal cladding," Developer Craig Glendenning says, likening the silver, white and red-striped cladding to a similar aesthetic of the counterculture icon. Edited April 28, 20232 yr by VintageLife
June 5, 20232 yr On 4/28/2023 at 8:43 AM, VintageLife said: Hedrick Building Reveals Original Ornate Architecture This is older, but it popped up on Facebook and it looked great. Cannot believe all the crap that happened in the 60’s. Built in 1928, the ten-story Hedrick Building at St. Mary's and Martin Streets was built originally with brick in brown and tan earthen tones. Ornate, flower detailing made of molded, fired terra cotta are featured prominently on the two bottom floors. ""The decoration is Spanish Baroque. Much like the telephone company building about three blocks away," Dr. Maggie Valentine says. She teaches architectural history and interior design at UTSA. The Spanish Baroque detailing can be found all around San Antonio on older buildings of that era. By 1963, however, the Hedrick's better days were behind it, so the owner changed the exterior spectacularly – and by current tastes, not in a good way. "If Timothy Leary was an architect, he would've designed this metal cladding," Developer Craig Glendenning says, likening the silver, white and red-striped cladding to a similar aesthetic of the counterculture icon. ^ holy mackeral if that sight doesnt drop your jaw and make you scratch yr noggin nothing will. you can only hope the ‘modern’ facade did better protecting the original from the elements over the years than harming it. i really like the look of downtown san antonio a lot, so its great they restored another spanish baroque bldg. i bet there are a few more.
June 5, 20232 yr this one makes me happy. and everyone i guess as its a beloved iconic sight. they are finally reviving the pretty and lacey victorian era weir greenhouse in front of the main green-wood cemetery entrance in brooklyn. as i recall the greenhouse itself got a previous, i guess minimal, restoration about 5-10 yrs ago as it had really taken a deterioration dive. looks like its now to be part of a larger welcome center for the historic cemetery. if you get a chance the cemetery is well worth visiting: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green-Wood_Cemetery Renderings Revealed For Green-Wood Cemetery’s Education And Welcome Center At 749 Fifth Avenue In Park Slope, Brooklyn BY: SEBASTIAN MORRIS 7:00 AM ON JUNE 4, 2023 … Construction of the new facility is supported by $4.1 million in funding from New York State, including $2 million from the New York State Council on the Arts, $1.5 million from Empire State Development, and $600,000 from the State legislature. more: https://newyorkyimby.com/2023/06/renderings-revealed-for-green-wood-cemeterys-education-and-welcome-center-at-749-fifth-avenue-in-park-slope-brooklyn.html Rendering of the Green-Wood Cemetery Education and Welcome Center at 749 Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn
June 13, 20232 yr lever house $100M restoration — STREET VIEWJUNE 9, 2023 Lever House Gets a Squeaky-Clean Restoration By Justin Davidson, New York Magazine’s archite more: https://www.curbed.com/2023/06/lever-house-restoration-skidmore-owings-merrill.html The restored plaza level of Lever House, with a 1982 Ellsworth Kelly sculpture. Photo: Timothy Schenck
June 27, 20231 yr from the hippy era — Obscure SF The story behind the old Birkenstock building off Highway 101 Tessa McLean, SFGATE June 26, 2023 It’s impossible to ignore the gleaming white triangular peaks of the sprawling rooftop from Highway 101. If you’ve driven the stretch near Novato in Marin County, you’ve undoubtedly noticed it, a stunning example of mid-century design embodied in a now long-neglected warehouse. more: https://www.sfgate.com/obscuresf/article/history-of-birkenstock-building-off-highway-101-17884873.php Jeff Boyd via Flickr CC 2.0
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