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Historic California post office temporarily moved to make way for new mixed-use complex

2022-02-23T14:45:00-05:00

A historic 1940s post office building, weighing 1,010 tons, is being temporarily moved 120 feet in Burlingame, California to make way for the construction of a new underground parking garage beneath the building’s current location as part of the planned 220 Park Road office and retail development.

While relocated, the historic structure will be restored before being moved back on site and integrated with the new development as a restaurant space at the base of the office building. The move is to ensure its safety during the construction of the new development. Page & Turnbull is the preservation architect working with KSH Architects and rehabilitation specialists Garden City Construction to move the building. The development is led by a joint venture of Sares Regis Group of Northern California (SRGNC) and Dostart Development Company (DDC). The project broke ground in September and will deliver 185,000 square feet of new office and retail space in a 1.3-acre lot in the center of do...

Chicago's Vautravers Building makes a move, literally

2021-08-09T14:37:00-04:00

On August 2, Chicago's Vautravers Building was moved to make way for the Chicago Transit Authority (CTA)'s Red and Purple Line modernization. Thanks to Preservation Chicago, the building was pushed to be a city landmark since its location makes it a part of the Newport Avenue District. Homes that were built between 1891 and 1928 received landmark status and are protected from being demolished. To preserve the building and improve transportation within the area, the CTA made careful plans for the move.

According to a report by Nina Molina from The Chicago Sun-Times, "The move is necessary because when the Red Line tracks were built in the early 1900s, the owner of the three-story building refused to sell, so the tracks were built around it. Red Line trains traveling between Belmont and Addison now must slow down around the bend that curves around the structure at 947 Newport Ave."

The CTA's Red-Purple Modernization Twitter profile provided footage of the historic move.

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Watch a timelapse of the 140-year-old Victorian home moving through the streets of San Francisco

2021-02-22T17:55:00-05:00

For the first time in more than 45 years, a Victorian home was relocated in San Francisco Sunday. The 1880 Italianate-style house, once located at 807 Franklin, crawled seven blocks to 635 Fulton on a hydraulic dolly operated by remote control.

Giant building gets moved by army of robots in Shanghai

2020-10-28T12:25:00-04:00

On October 15, 2020 Chinese workers relocated an old building in Shanghai using an innovative "walking" method. The Lagena Primary School which was built in 1935 needed to move to a new location. The team in Shanghai lifted the entire structure atop an army of robots and moved it "step by step" to its new home. See the video below:

Frank Lloyd Wright's Glencoe Booth Cottage, saved from demolition, is moving this week

2020-07-20T18:34:00-04:00

It’s a small victory for Frank Lloyd Wright fans, but a victory nonetheless: A Wright-designed cottage, previously threatened with demolition, will be moved — wheeled, actually — to a new location Tuesday in north suburban Glencoe.

Tribune architecture critic Blair Kamin has some good news for readers who feared that Frank Lloyd Wright's 1913 Booth Cottage may have already met the wrecking ball after its previous owners filed for a demolition permit last year.

Previously on Archinect: Frank Lloyd Wright's Booth Cottage could face wrecking ball after new owner files for demolition permit

"The building’s new owners, the nonprofit Glencoe Historical Society, plan to restore the cottage’s exterior and eventually convert its interior into a museum and research center," Kamin writes.

Moving the cottage starts on Tuesday, July 21st at 8 AM, and mask-wearing spectators are welcome to watch the historic building move down the road.

View this post on Instagram Mark your calendars! The Booth Cottage is moving on Tuesday, July 21st starting at 8:00 a.m. Spectators are welcome to watch the house move down Franklin Road to the park in areas designated by Public Safety provided they wear masks and observe ...

The Bjarke Ingels-designed 2016 Serpentine Pavilion makes an appearance in Toronto before traveling further

2018-10-17T18:01:00-04:00

[...] the 2016 Unzipped pavilion by the Danish architect Bjarke Ingels was acquired by a wealthy collector: the Canadian developer Ian Gillespie, whose company Westbank was a sponsor of the London presentation. Last month, the shape-shifting 14-metre-high, 27-metre-long installation made the move to inner city Toronto, where it was unveiled on the site of the architect’s next commission for Westbank, a massively ambitious housing complex on King Street West.

Another member of the growing family of the Serpentine Galleries' annual summer pavilions has found a new home: the Bjarke Ingels-designed Unzipped pavilion — famously praised by The Guardian's architecture critic Oliver Wainwright as "possibly the Serpentine’s most impressive pavilion yet" when it opened in June 2016 — was recently unveiled to the public on a site in Toronto where BIG's mountain-shaped King Street condo building will rise soon.

View this post on Instagram Open till midnight tonight with live music. . . . . #unzippedtoronto #nbTO18 #architecture #toronto #exhibition #design
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The pavilion won't stick around for too long though and is scheduled to travel to other international cities before reaching its final, permanent site in Vancouver.

A rendering of the pavilion's final destination in Vancouver. Credit: Westbank.

Earlier this month, it was reported that the 2018 Serpentine Pav...

How Frank Lloyd Wright's Bachman Wilson House was moved from New Jersey to Arkansas

2015-10-12T18:08:00-04:00

In Bentonville, Arkansas, a house that Frank Lloyd Wright designed for a New Jersey couple more than 60 years ago has been painstakingly reassembled, board by board and pane by pane, overlooking the clear waters of the Crystal Spring. When it opens to the public next month on the lushly wooded 120-acre campus of the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, it will be the first Wright house in Arkansas—a delicately preserved later example of the so-called Usonian homes [...].

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Debated relocation of U.S. Embassy in London is "inevitably painful" for locals

2015-06-10T15:58:00-04:00

The United States Embassy in Grosvenor Square, a Modernist concrete building in the heart of Mayfair, London’s most exclusive neighborhood, has been a potential terrorist target for years, creating anxiety for both employees and neighbors...So a new embassy [by KieranTimberlake] is under construction for a move by 2017, and the residents of Mayfair are relieved. But this being Britain, the new embassy has become the object of debate and, in some quarters, ridicule.

KieranTimberlake’s U.S. Embassy in London celebrates groundbreaking

Frank Lloyd Wright's 'Usonian' house rises again in Arkansas

2014-11-18T13:43:00-05:00

How many truckloads does it take to transport a 2,800 sq. ft house, designed by one of America’s most revered Modern architects, more than 1,200 miles from New Jersey to Arkansas? [...] Staff at the three-year-old Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art put that question to the test recently when Frank Lloyd Wright’s 1950s Bachman Wilson House was moved from its flood-prone location on a riverbank in Millstone, New Jersey, to the institution’s sprawling 120-acre campus in Bentonville, Arkansas.

Previously: Museum buys a Frank Lloyd Wright house with plans to move it from New Jersey to Arkansas

Urban Planners Propose Moving Madison Square Garden to Nearby Post Office

2014-10-23T12:22:00-04:00

If there’s one thing that all New Yorkers can agree on it’s that Penn Station is pretty awful. And if we’re ever going to get a new home for NJ Transit, Amtrak, and the LIRR, Madison Square Garden will have to move (just don’t tell any die-hard Rangers fans that).

The Alliance for a New Penn Station is proposing in a new report that the world-famous venue Madison Square Garden be relocated to the nearby Morgan Post Office and Annex, which occupies the block bound by 9th and 10th avenues and 28th and 30th streets. They say the mail sorting facility site is large enough to accommodate a new state-of-the-art arena and it's just a quick walk to Penn Station.

Penn Station was designed for 200,000 passengers a day and now sees 600,000, making a redesign necessary.

Museum buys a Frank Lloyd Wright house with plans to move it from New Jersey to Arkansas

2014-01-16T13:52:00-05:00

Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art has bought a rare Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian house, known as the Bachman Wilson House, located in the Borough of Millstone in Somerset County, New Jersey. Museum officials said the plan is to disassemble the house and move it to Arkansas, where it will be reassembled on the museum’s 120-acre grounds, located 25 miles north of Fayetteville.

A year ago a potential buyer wanted to move this house to Italy.

Moving day a success for UC Berkeley's Julia Morgan building

2014-01-13T20:17:00-05:00

Though Morgan assisted campus architect John Galen Howard with the master plan, Girton Hall is the only building to be designed specifically for the campus by Morgan.

POST+CAPITALIST CITY 4#Move - Winning Projects

2013-05-20T14:30:00-04:00

The international ideas competition series POST+CAPITALIST CITY has announced the winners of its last quarter, 4#Move. Previous installments focused on the issues of 1#Shop, 2#Work, and 3#Live.

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Architect Wants to Relocate New Jersey Frank Lloyd Wright to Italy

2013-02-25T14:38:00-05:00

Wright aficionado and architect Paolo Bulletti has launched an effort to purchase the 1954 Bachman Wilson House, one of Wright’s Usonian Houses in New Jersey, and transport the structure to the town of Fiesole outside Florence.

The Cash-and-Carry House

2011-11-16T20:11:27-05:00

The house was just $1. The catch? A delivery charge of nearly $22,000. .....Moving a house is, in theory, relatively simple.

Neutra on a roll

2011-04-09T23:21:57-04:00

The 1941 Maxwell house by Richard Neutra, one of Southern California's most celebrated residential architects, is being moved in pieces from Brentwood to a vacant lot in Angelino Heights, the neighborhood near downtown Los Angeles best known for its restored Victorians. Photographer Brian Thomas Jones was on the scene as the first part of the 1,700-square-foot wooden structure made the journey down Sunset Boulevard to its new home.

The LA Times covers the moving of Neutra's Maxwell house.