The long, rancorous debate over the fate of the Orange County Government Center ended abruptly Wednesday, as a group of Republican lawmakers sided with Democrats to pass a proposal to renovate the 43-year-old complex.
— recordonline.com
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if as Susan S. Szenasy recently explored in Metropolis magazine, designLAB can provide a sensitive/contemporary and now LEED standard sustainable building in the case of Paul Rudolph’s Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth, Western than why shouldn't we also save/upgrade this?
Keyword, while i do like your turn of phrase how does renovation = "preserving morphosis"?
Nam, as a life time member of the faux-old establishment, I think the choice to renovate this building as opposed to demolishing it is what is meant by preserving it. The work of my grand children in "preserving morphosis" simply means that the faux-old establishment's main goal is to preserve all old work. The idea being there are some cultural artifacts worth preserving for future generations to tell our story and in many cases preserving a sense of place deemed worth preserving or as a tacit understandint that we can do no better, so why trash something that works. It's a brave new world view that the past stands for nothing and only the new and original is valid. Apparently it takes no prisoners.
Thayer-D if I am reading you correctly "The idea being there are some cultural artifacts worth preserving for future generations to tell our story and in many cases preserving a sense of place deemed worth preserving or as a tacit understandint that we can do no better, so why trash something that works" couldn't agree more...
What the Hell ever Happened to Paul Rudolph? Did he do a Louis Kahn thing and die in a public bathroom, not to be identified for an extended period of time?
snooker-doodle: Let me google that for you: "Rudolph died in 1997 at the age of seventy-eight in New York from peritoneal mesothelioma, a cancer that almost always originates from exposure to asbestos."
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w00t!
*like*
On the other hand . . . I'm really quite pleased.
Looks pretty cool, bring your caulk guns!
ah, the faux-old's grandchildren hard at work.
Soon their offspring will be preserving morphosis.
Excellent news!
Now I will say it, what a pile of crap (Just kidding!)
if as Susan S. Szenasy recently explored in Metropolis magazine, designLAB can provide a sensitive/contemporary and now LEED standard sustainable building in the case of Paul Rudolph’s Claire T. Carney Library at UMass Dartmouth, Western than why shouldn't we also save/upgrade this?
Keyword, while i do like your turn of phrase how does renovation = "preserving morphosis"?
Nam, as a life time member of the faux-old establishment, I think the choice to renovate this building as opposed to demolishing it is what is meant by preserving it. The work of my grand children in "preserving morphosis" simply means that the faux-old establishment's main goal is to preserve all old work. The idea being there are some cultural artifacts worth preserving for future generations to tell our story and in many cases preserving a sense of place deemed worth preserving or as a tacit understandint that we can do no better, so why trash something that works. It's a brave new world view that the past stands for nothing and only the new and original is valid. Apparently it takes no prisoners.
The faux-old establishment
aka-cavemen
Thayer-D if I am reading you correctly "The idea being there are some cultural artifacts worth preserving for future generations to tell our story and in many cases preserving a sense of place deemed worth preserving or as a tacit understandint that we can do no better, so why trash something that works" couldn't agree more...
Until they start hoarding... or worse, copying the past.
In the long run the past doesn't really matter, at least as a driving force.
Don't tell that to the cave people though. Yabba Dabba Doo!
What the Hell ever Happened to Paul Rudolph? Did he do a Louis Kahn thing and die in a public bathroom, not to be identified for an extended period of time?
snooker-doodle: Let me google that for you: "Rudolph died in 1997 at the age of seventy-eight in New York from peritoneal mesothelioma, a cancer that almost always originates from exposure to asbestos."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Rudolph_(architect)
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