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  • Downtown Detroit Club Appears in the 1996 Film

    Detroit MI ~ Downtown~Detroit Club ~ Film 1996

    The Detroit Club is a historic building located in Detroit, Michigan. The four-story brick and stone Romanesque Revival building was constructed in 1891, designed by architects Wilson Eyre Jr. and John Scott & Co. It features an unusual recessed archway with stairs leading up to the front door. The club consists of a grill and library on the first floor, a family room on the second floor, and a main dining room with smaller meeting rooms on the third floor.

    The interior of the building boasts fine woodwork and a wide main stair, along with an enormous fireplace in the main dining hall. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2005. The Detroit Club serves as a private governing body, offering its members a variety of amenities and services.

    The Detroit Club is one of several historic buildings located in Detroit, which is home to a rich architectural heritage. The city has undergone a revitalization in recent years, with many buildings being restored and repurposed for modern use. The Detroit Club is a notable example of how historic buildings can be preserved and adapted for contemporary use.

    Posted by Onasill – Bill Badzo – Views 160 million on 2011-09-02 17:03:12

  • Pedestrian plaza outside Los Angeles World Trade Center, Bunker Hill Towers, and Disney Hall

    Pedestrian plaza outside Los Angeles World Trade Center, Bunker Hill Towers, and Disney Hall

    Pedestrian plaza outside Los Angeles World Trade Center, Bunker Hill Towers, and Disney Hall

    Pedestrian plaza is part of the Calvin S. Hamilton Pedway:

    "The Calvin S. Hamilton Pedway, as the system is formally known, is a network of elevated walkways that was first presented in the 1970 Concept Los Angeles: The Concept for the Los Angeles General Plan. Hamilton was the city planning director at the time, having taken the position in 1964. The plan, adopted by the city in 1974, promoted dense commercial developments connected to one another by a rapid transit system. The plan was abandoned in 1981 when federal funding for the project was eliminated. Hamilton stepped down from his position in 1985 after a criminal investigation."
    www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/block-by-blo…

    "The pedways fall within the Downtown Center Business Improvement District, but the organization’s CEO says its strained resources can only cover maintenance crews on the pedways about once a week."
    articles.latimes.com/2013/may/23/opinion/la-ed-pedways-20…

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    Bunker Hill Towers (aka Bunker Hill Apartments aka Bunker Hill Residential Towers):
    Built ca. 1966–68.
    Architect: Robert Evans Alexander.

    www.you-are-here.com/los_angeles/bunker_hill.html
    www.essexapartmenthomes.com/apartment/bunker-hill-towers-…
    www.yelp.com/biz/bunker-hill-towers-apartments-los-angeles
    www.apartmentratings.com/rate/CA-Los-Angeles-Bunker-Hill-…
    laforum.org/content/articles/downtown-again-by-peter-zellner

    ZIMAS data:
    Central City Community Plan Area, Freeway Adjacent Advisory Notice for Sensitive Uses, Greater Downtown Housing Incentive Area, Los Angeles State Enterprise Zone, General Plan Land Use= "Regional Center Commercial", Downtown Adaptive Reuse Incentive Area, Bunker Hill Redevelopment Project, w/in 500 feet of USC Hybrid High, Downtown Center Business Improvement District, Central City Revitalization Zone.

    Assessment:
    Assessed Land Val.: $15,262,053
    Assessed Improvement Val.: $30,664,155
    Last Owner Change: 04/01/98
    Last Sale Amount: $18,080,180

    Year Built: 1968

    "The 19-story, Robert Evans Alexander-designed Bunker Hill Towers opened in 1968. After the demolition of 7,310 pre-existing homes and forced relocation of their residents, Bunker Hill Towers became the residence for nearly all of Bunker Hill’s remaining residents. More than a decade would pass before the nearby residential Angelus Plaza and Promenade Towers opened. Long before the redeveloped loft crowd discovered downtown thousands lived in such residences, including Cathay Manor, Little Tokyo Towers, and hardest to ignore, on the streets."
    www.kcet.org/socal/departures/landofsunshine/block-by-blo…

    Robert Evans Alexander:
    rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/htmldocs/RMM03087.html
    digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/180/
    www.modernsandiego.com/RobertAlexander.html
    archive.org/details/architectureplan01alex
    archive.org/details/architectureplan02alex
    articles.latimes.com/1992-12-02/news/mn-1120_1_r-e-alexander
    joshtonies.com/?p=79
    babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015027871386;seq=3;v…

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    Walt Disney Concert Hall:
    111 South Grand Avenue

    Project search announced: 1987.
    Initial design approved: 1988.
    "Final" design approved: 1991.
    Ground broken for the garage: 1992.
    Hall actually built: 1999–2003.

    Architect: Frank Gehry / Gehry Partners, LLP / Frank O. Gehry & Associates (“FOG/A”)
    Executive Architect: Dan Dworsky / Dworsky Architects (at least initially, off the project by ’94)
    Project Designers: Michael Maltzan (at least initially, left to start his own firm in ’95), Craig Webb (I believe).
    Acoustic Design: Yasuhisa Toyota for Nagata Acoustics, with preliminary work by Minoru Nagata
    Overall Project Management: Fred Stegeman for Stegeman/Kastner Inc. (initially until ca. ’95, I think)
    Project Management w/in Gehry’s Firm: James Glymph (at least initially)
    Structural Engineering: CBM Engineering (at least initially)
    Garden Design: Melinda Taylor
    Woodwork: Columbia Showcase (headed by Joe Patterson)

    Software: Catia (by Dassault). (Primary responsibility for pushing for use of this software in Gehry’s office goes to partner James Glymph. During the later construction phase [2001–3], a 4D scheduling modeling system was also used that was developed by CIFE at Stanford and Walt Disney Imagineers, using Catia as its base, I think.)
    Software consultants: C-Cubed (ca. 1991–94)

    Client: A seven-member architectural search committee was set up by the Music Center in 1987 and chaired by Richard Koshalek, with Daniel Commins as acoustic advisor. In 1989, the twelve-member Walt Disney Concert Hall Committee was formally established and thereupon headed by Frederick M. Nicholas on a volunteer basis until about 1995. The land ("Parcel K") was owned by Los Angeles County and the County was represented in negotiations by attorney Richard S. Volpert, at least from 1989 to 1995. Sally Reed was CAO of the county for much of this period until 1995, but I’m not sure how directly involved she was with this project. The Philharmonic was initially represented by Ernest Fleischmann, managing director, with input from Esa-Pekka Salonen, the music director. (In 2001, Debra Borda became the new head at the Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen remained music director.) Lillian Disney represented herself and her family as the single largest private donor until her death in 1998, with Diane Disney Miller also on the committee and serving as its vice-chair at one point. Sharon Disney Lund was also involved in the negotiations until her death in 1993. They also acted through the family attorney, Ron Gother. From 1995 to 1997, Harry Hufford served as volunteer full-time CEO of the committee, with Suzanne Marx his vice-president for development, and a mandate to save the project and recapitalize it. At various points, other committee members included Stuart Ketchum, James A. Thomas, and Ronald J. Arnault. Mayor Riordan was also heavily involved. Riordan brought in Eli Broad to help finance the completion. In 1996, Andrea Van De Kamp became the new chair of the Music Center. (Sheldon G. Stanfill was president of the Music Center in the early 1990s.) In 1997, a new oversight committee was formed, with Eli Broad and Diane Disney Miller as chief guiding members. In 1998, William Siart, a member of the oversight committee, became chair of the main committee (the legal entity at the center of this confusion).

    Financial auditing/oversight: Hines Interests (beginning in ’94, with Bruce Frey heading this work).

    Owner: The County of Los Angeles, with the facility operated by a nonprofit under a Master Lease Agreement. (I believe this is an accurate summary of the situation, but I am not fully certain. The agreement is complicated and I believe it involves a sublease back to the County that obliges it to provide building and grounds maintenance, and then another subsublease to the organization that runs programming, which has subleases to the Philharmonic and the Music Center. So if I’ve made a muddle of that, I apologize.)

    Major Donors: Lilian Disney, Eli Broad, The Disney Corporation, Ron Burkle, The Ralphs/Food4Less Foundation, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, The Times Mirror Foundation, Richard Riordan, Roy E. Disney (specifically for REDCAT), Pacific Bell Foundation, and Deloitte & Touche. (The County also provided significant funds to the parking garage.)

    Seats 2,265.

    Current home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

    Features an organ with 72 stops, 109 ranks, and 6,125 pipes, co-designed by Frank Gehry and Manuel Rosales, with assistance from Kevin Gilchrist, and built by Caspar Glatter-Götz, with engineering assistance from Heinz Kremnitzer. Early in the process, a special committee was formed (with Cherry Rhodes, Robert Anderson, and Michael Barone serving)—just for finding the right organ designer, settling on Manuel Rosales in 1990. Michael Barone also served as a consultant during the final design process.
    www.gg-organs.com/eng/projects/images/Aprcovfeat.pdf

    "In 1982, the family company, Retlaw Enterprises, sold the rights to Walt Disney’s name and likeness to the Walt Disney Co. for $47 million. That money was put aside for an unspecified charitable gift. . . . In 1987, Music Center then-Chairman F. Daniel Frost, who had been Walt Disney’s tax attorney, presented Lillian Disney with Los Angeles Times articles detailing the Music Center’s desire for a new concert hall. Disney readily agreed to donate her funds. At the time, Frost was the son-in-law of Music Center founder Dorothy Chandler and was a board member of Times Mirror, parent company of The Times. He has since divorced and has left the Times Mirror board."
    articles.latimes.com/1995-02-27/news/mn-36686_1_disney-hall (’95)

    The 1987/88 idea to use Parcel K for a new Philharmonic was not without significant opposition, including that out the outgoing CAO of the county, Jim Hankla, and architect Barton Myers, who both proposed that the new concert hall be built on the L.A. mall:
    articles.latimes.com/1987-02-22/local/me-5387_1_music-cen…

    "Lillian Disney made an initial gift of $50 million in 1987 to build a performance venue as a gift to the people of Los Angeles and a tribute to Walt Disney’s devotion to the arts and to the city. . . . Upon completion in 2003, the project cost an estimated $274 million; the parking garage alone cost $110 million. The remainder of the total cost was paid by private donations, of which the Disney family’s contribution was estimated to $84.5 million with another $25 million from The Walt Disney Company. By comparison, the three existing halls of the Music Center cost $35 million in the 1960s (about $190 million in today’s dollars). . . . The walls and ceiling of the hall are finished with Douglas-fir while the floor is finished with oak. The Hall’s reverberation time is approximately 2.2 seconds unoccupied and 2.0 seconds occupied."
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall

    It is worth pointing out that the final building hardly resembles the competition designs and models from the invited design competition in 1988 and substantially deviated from the 1991 designs and models in several key areas such as cladding and landscaping.

    By the end, the design process apparently included over 30,000 drawings and models.
    www.mediabistro.com/unbeige/disney-hall-turns-a-corner_b1653

    From an initial field of ca. 80 entrants, then winnowed to a list of 25, the other three finalists in 1988 were Gottfried Böhm, Hans Hollein, and James Stirling.

    From 1990 to 1991, the project faced a lawsuit brought by a group called A Local and Regional Monitor, represented by Sabrina Schiller, which alleged that there had not been a sufficient review of environmental and traffic impacts. Gary Justice, Pamela Schmidt, and Helen Parker represented the project and defeated the lawsuit and appeal.
    www.gibsondunn.com/fstore/documents/pubs/AForbes_Eye_For_…

    Another set of delays in 1990 came from a newer demand from the county that the site incorporate a hotel, in order to raise further revenue in the form of hotel taxes. Gemtel was to be the hotel developer and they were to bring in Ritz Carlton as operator. This was scrapped in 1991 when Ritz Carlton refused to agree to hire unionized labor and/or take on a living wage rule (the exact disagreement is somewhat unclear to me).

    The 1991 models and other mock-ups premiered at the Fifth International Exhibition of Architecture at the Venice Biennale in 1991 to great acclaim, before being submitted for approval.

    These mock-ups for the models were designed using Catia, "a 3D modeler made for the aerospace industry by Dassault, a French software company associated with IBM."
    larrybarrow.com/assets/dissertation/Vol-2-back/A4-FOGA.pdf

    "At one point, someone estimated that the project had over 90 consultants."
    www.economist.com/node/86629 (’97)

    During the first phase of the project, "a consortium of General Contracting firms, (Peck Jones, Turner Construction, and Obayashi) were selected to form the building entity, Concert Hall Builders." Yet I am not sure who the final constructing firms were.
    larrybarrow.com/assets/dissertation/Vol-2-back/A4-FOGA.pdf

    In 1994, the cost estimate skyrocketed by $50 million and the project was put on hold pending auditing and financial review by Hines.
    "According to committee budgets, some of the biggest increases in construction and material costs were in the steel framing, $8.6 million more than originally thought; in wood purchases and millwork, up $7 million, partly because of a decision to add interior wood; and in drywalling and plaster, up $4.9 million. ‘The drywall designed for this hall has curves and movement that don’t have any comparison to anything else that’s been built in this city,’ Nicholas said. ‘The people who were bidding the drywall had never seen anything like it, hadn’t had any experience with it. So they put a lot of contingencies in it and they bid it very, very high. A bright spot is the purchasing, cutting and installation of the exterior Italian limestone–a process Gehry has closely supervised. Bids on that stonework are reported to be $325,000 below its original $22.6-million estimate.’"
    articles.latimes.com/1994-08-27/news/mn-31646_1_disney-ha…

    As described above, a major shake-up of operations occurred ca. 1995.
    "Dworsky indicated, as a matter of tracking what happened to whom, it is quite simple, of all the major original participants (i.e. architects, engineers, builders, and project managers), no one survived except FOGA."
    larrybarrow.com/assets/dissertation/Vol-2-back/A4-FOGA.pdf

    The garden, initially a major feature of the design brief, has all but disappeared. It is supposedly partially on the roof? I have no idea. I never much noticed a garden during any of my visits to Disney Hall, although I didn’t mind the landscaping I did notice. In any case, Melinda Taylor was a fairly late addition to the project.

    "She came in after a number of other designers, including Philadelphia landscape architect Laurie Olin and Nancy Goslee Powers, who did the Norton Simon Museum’s garden, had come and gone on the job."
    articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/21/news/lv-disney21

    “‘Wow! Did I do that? Holy shit! Did I do that?’ Sometimes you look at it that way,” Gehry says, taking in the flowing ribbons of steel at street level and then gazing up at the luffing “mainsails” at the center of the building—forms which seem to defy engineering, and which were conceived by Gehry as squiggly lines on a piece of paper more than 16 years ago. . . . Gehry, probably the most famous architect in the world right now, and arguably the most important and influential, is a modest figure in a profession known for its massive egos."
    www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2003/09/disney-concer… (2003)

    "If Gehry lived in Idaho, we would see snowmobiles in his designs; he is an architect stuck in a feedback loop with his surroundings. As it is, he lives by the Pacific and owns a sailboat, and so it is seagoing vessels we see in his buildings: the boat-shaped main gallery of the Guggenheim Bilbao, the concert hall in Disney. ‘When I started Disney Hall,’ says Gehry, ‘I saw a show at the Toledo Museum in Ohio called In Praise of Ships in the Sea, and I got really excited about these shapes. I saw them in the wood ceiling I was already doing, and I brought them in.’ A metaphor took hold of Gehry: A concert was a journey, the hall would be a boat, the steel forms that shot into the air over L.A. its sails."
    www.lamag.com/features/2003/10/12/how-disney-hall-redeeme… (quote on page 5)

    For a student’s perspective on the use of nautical forms, see: couplarchideas.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/similarity-betwee…

    books.google.com/books?id=WWl29hn0C9gC&lpg=PA72&v…
    www.latimes.com/news/local/cl-ca-uroussoff19oct19,0,64916… (Ouroussoff, 2003)
    www.nytimes.com/2003/10/23/arts/architecture-review-a-moo… (Muschamp, 2003)
    www.slate.com/articles/arts/architecture/2003/10/epic_arc… (Hawthorne, 2003)
    www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1264860 (Stamberg, 2003)
    www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2003/08/17/a-mighty-monume… (McGuigan, 2003)
    www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/cl-et-swed1jul01,… (Swed, 2003)
    www.businessweek.com/stories/2003-10-05/frank-gehrys-high… (Palmieri, 2003)
    www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2003/oct/23/victory-at-… (Filler, 2003, paywall)
    www.riprense.com/Silverstunt.htm (contrarian view, ca. 2003)
    articles.latimes.com/2003/oct/25/entertainment/et-fisher25 (blurb round-up, 2003)
    books.google.com/books?id=c2Kwa-EZR2IC&lpg=PA106&… (photo of opening night, 2003)
    articles.latimes.com/1988-04-29/news/vw-2468_1_concert-hall (1988)
    articles.latimes.com/1991-09-05/local/me-2333_1_walt-disn… (Isenberg, ’91)
    articles.latimes.com/1991-09-15/realestate/re-3191_1_disn… (’91)
    www.nytimes.com/1992/12/13/arts/architecture-view-gehry-s… (Muschamp, ’92)
    articles.latimes.com/1992-11-22/magazine/tm-2024_1_disney… (’92)
    articles.latimes.com/1994-11-03/news/mn-58297_1_concert-hall (1994)
    books.google.com/books?id=rF0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT72&lp… (’96, scroll back a page or two for the start of the article titled "Why L.A. Hates Frank Gehry")
    www.newyorker.com/archive/1997/07/07/1997_07_07_038_TNY_C… (’97)
    www.laphil.com/philpedia/about-walt-disney-concert-hall
    www.laphil.com
    www.aia.org/cities/los-angeles/all-stories/disneyconcerth…
    www.arcspace.com/features/gehry-partners-llp/walt-disney-…
    www.laweekly.com/2003-10-30/music/organomics/ (on the organ, 2003)
    www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-disneyhall6… (Swed, 2008)
    illumin.usc.edu/177/
    interactive.wttw.com/tenbuildings/walt-disney-concert-hall
    en.wikiarquitectura.com/index.php/Walt_Disney_Concert_Hall
    www.nbm.org/exhibitions-collections/exhibitions/symphony-…
    www.johnmartin.com/publications/Disney%20Concert%20Hall/D…
    books.google.com/books?id=CooTi-asobIC&lpg=PA48&o…

    Frank Gehry:
    www.foga.com
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gehry
    www.gehrytechnologies.com
    www.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/people/…
    www.getty.edu/pacificstandardtime/explore-the-era/archive…
    www.latimesmagazine.com/2008/10/frank-gehry-annie-gilbar….
    www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/los-angeles/frank-geh… (Frances Anderton)
    larrybarrow.com/assets/dissertation/Vol-2-back/A4-FOGA.pdf
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ-Kf3sJfok (ca. 5 minutes)
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRjnoNkaJUs (+1 hour long talk with Frank Gehry and others about him and the Los Angeles arts community)

    Catia:
    www.3ds.com/products/catia/
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CATIA
    worldcadaccess.typepad.com/blog/2012/05/whats-the-price-o…
    www.mcadcentral.com/catia-software-development/
    www.caddigest.com/subjects/aec/select/022304_day_gehry.htm

    4D modeling:
    cife.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/WP064.pdf

    James Glymph:
    Was a partner at Gehry’s firm for 19 years (ca. 1989–2008) and was founding CEO of Gehry Technologies.

    "In the 1980s, he worked with LMN Architects in downtown Seattle, heading the team that designed the San Diego Convention Center."
    www.aiaseattle.org/KBD/about_glymph.htm

    www.laiserin.com/laiserinlive/speakers/glymph.php
    www.miamialum.org/s/916/interior-3-col.aspx?sid=916&g… (scroll down to "Edges Torn Open")
    archrecord.construction.com/innovation/1_TechBriefs/0310G…
    businessmodelalchemist.com/blog/2010/09/on-business-model… (scroll down for video)

    Dan Dworksy:
    I feel the need to point out that though Dan Dworsky is currently rather maligned within the Los Angeles architectural community, especially for his involvement in this project, he’s directly responsible for my favorite Bunker Hill buildings, the Angelus Plaza senior housing complex, as well as the very decent Figueroa Courtyard. The vision of a revived Bunker Hill with more than just tall glass boxes of office space owes a great deal to his efforts over the years.
    digital.lib.washington.edu/architect/architects/273/
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Dworsky
    sma.sciarc.edu/subclip/takeyama-minourou-and-daniel-dwors…

    Michael Maltzan:
    A rising star in the California architectural scene, recently garnering praise and awards for his New Carver Apartments for the Skid Row Housing Trust. A building that provides transitional housing for the recently formerly homeless, it’s one I don’t like for a number of nit-picky reasons, but whose social conscience I credit. One of his most prominent commissions was for another performance hall—Mashouf Performing Arts Center for SF State. My favorite of his works is the Billy Wilder Theatre at the Hammer, which is a great size for films they screen and makes me think every time that I’ve snuck inside a fancy, sexy lipstick holder from the late 1980s: hot pink, sleek black, kiss kiss. I also think he did a wonderful job with MoMA QNS, the temporary (and more fun) home of MoMA while the main building was being revamped during the early 2000s.

    "Michael Maltzan established his independent practice in Los Angeles in 1995. After graduating from the Rhode Island School of Design (1985) and Harvard’s Graduate School of Design (1988), he worked briefly in Boston for Schwartz/Silver Architects and then for Machado and Silvetti Associates. . . Then in 1988, Maltzan moved to California, where he joined the office of Frank Gehry. . . In Gehry’s office, Maltzan worked on the initial design stages of the acclaimed Walt Disney Concert Hall (1988–2004) for Los Angeles and was project designer for the tautly elegant Vontz Center for Molecular Studies (1993–1999) at the University of Cincinnati."
    www.mmaltzan.com/essays/essay-alternate-ground/
    www.mmaltzan.com
    www.mmaltzan.com/profile/michael-maltzan/
    www.arcspace.com/features/michael-maltzan-architecture/
    www.arcspace.com/the-architects-studio/michael-maltzan-sk…
    places.designobserver.com/feature/no-more-play/26888/

    Yasuhisa Toyota:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasuhisa_Toyota
    live.stanford.edu/bingconcerthall/files/ch-na.pdf
    www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,543822,00.html
    www.nagata.co.jp/e_index.html
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagata_Acoustics

    Craig Webb:
    Senior partner (currently?) at Gehry Partners and the main designer assigned to Disney Hall after Michael Maltzan left the firm.

    Before joining Gehry, Webb worked at Albert C. Martin & Associates and Barton Myers Associates.

    "The 125-employee office is structured like a pyramid, with Gehry delegating creative work to two principal architects: Webb and Edwin Chan, who oversee design and direct project teams. . . . And while Bilbao was the defining project for Chan, Disney Hall belongs to Webb. ‘There’s a lot of him in there,’ says Gehry. . . . ‘They’re different personalities,’ says Gehry. ‘When Craig makes stuff, it’s more real. Edwin is more outgoing with people,’ he continues. ‘He seems to enjoy dealing with clients, the personal stuff. It’s different than how Craig does it. He is a little shy or reticent, not as gregarious. He gets a little fussy sometimes. Like everybody else, he gets insecure.’ . . . Gehry describes the younger architect as intuitive, with good communication and analytical skills and what he calls excellent ‘hand-eye coordination’ — the ability to see, explore and realize Gehry’s ideas. ‘He can play with me on that level.’"
    articles.latimes.com/2003/sep/17/entertainment/et-roug17

    Manuel Rosales:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Rosales_(organ_builder)

    Caspar Glatter-Götz:
    www.gg-organs.com
    www.gg-organs.com/eng/projects/disney.htm
    www.gg-organs.com/eng/projects/images/Aprcovfeat.pdf
    books.google.com/books?id=cgDJaeFFUPoC&lpg=PA225&…

    Melinda Taylor:
    Landscape designer, married to Craig Webb. This seems to have been her single largest project, although she has also worked on smaller projects and private gardens in Los Angeles.
    www.melindataylor.com
    articles.latimes.com/2002/mar/21/news/lv-disney21

    Frederick M. Nicholas:
    "Frederick M. Nicholas, an attorney licensed to practice law in the State of California since 1952, is a specialist in Real Estate Development and Leases. He is President of The Hapsmith Company, a Real Estate Development Firm with major interests in Northern and Southern California."
    www.frederickmnicholas.com
    www.frederickmnicholas.com/400_images/wdchpdfs/1993%20fal…
    www.gibsondunn.com/fstore/documents/pubs/AForbes_Eye_For_…

    Frederick Stegeman (d. 2009):
    www.s-and-k.com/about/index.html

    Harry Hufford:
    "Hufford served as the chief administrator for Los Angeles County from 1974 to 1985 and worked as interim chief administrative officer in Ventura County from December 1999 to [2001]."
    articles.latimes.com/2001/may/13/local/me-62999

    "As CAO, Hufford was responsible for preparation and presentation of the County budget to the Board of Supervisors; administrative supervision of County departments; and management studies."
    ceo.lacounty.gov/pdf/bio/hlh.pdf

    Prior to being named acting CAO in 1974, Hufford had spent almost his entire career, with some interruptions, working in the staff of the CAO office, beginning initially in 1953.

    He also served as an administrative officer at Gibson Dunn, and as a past president of the Music Center.

    In 2001, he won the Earl Warren Public Service Award.
    In 2003, there was a settlement in a sexual harassment suit against him.

    articles.latimes.com/2003/apr/23/local/me-hufford23
    articles.latimes.com/keyword/harry-hufford

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    A discussion on the 1979 Bunker Hill CRA competition and Gehry’s participation in that. Most of the proposed projects mentioned did not get built:
    www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rUrkUi2GKM

    Posted by jann_on on 2009-09-03 05:37:21

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  • Coventry – City of Three Spires Prior to 1918

    Coventry – City of Three Spires Prior to 1918

    Coventry - City of Three Spires Prior to 1918

    The Postcard

    A postcard bearing no publisher’s name, despite the fact that it would have been funded by Triumph – on the back again of the card it states:

    ‘Triumph Cycles and Motors –
    Popular Everywhere’

    The card was posted in Coventry on Wednesday the 14th. August 1918 to:

    Mrs. D. Prosser,
    ‘Bleanllundeg’,
    Glasbury-on-Wye,
    Breconshire.

    The quick information on the divided back was as follows:

    “Pricey Mom,
    We arrived pretty harmless.
    Amy”.

    The Three Churches

    Of the three churches in the photograph, the only 1 to endure Planet War II rather intact was Holy Trinity Church (on the ideal).

    The middle spire belonged to St. Michael’s, the Cathedral Church of Coventry.

    The spire on the remaining belonged to Christ Church.

    Using every single developing in change:

    (a) The Cathedral Church of St. Michael

    For a lot of hundreds of years the Cathedral experienced appeared significantly the same, but on the night of Thursday 14th. November 1940, all the things modified.

    At all around 7:10 pm the air-raid siren sounded just as it had performed on quite a few events that year. Tiny did the people today of Coventry suspect that this was about to come to be the most prolonged and devastating assault on any metropolis in the record of warfare to date.

    Somewhere around fifty percent an hour just after the raid started, the first of quite a few incendiary bombs landed on the roof of the cathedral. Provost Dick Howard and a little crew of courageous helpers, like the elderly ‘Jock’ Forbes – the stone mason, as well as two youthful males, fought challenging to extinguish the a lot of fires close to the roof and within the setting up.

    The four gentlemen invested the night dashing close to the cathedral roof, making an attempt to rip open the lead with axes so that water could be poured on to the fires. The problem was exacerbated by the roof’s construction – the internal picket vaulted ceiling staying divided from the wooden and direct sheeting outer roof by an eighteen inch hole, within which quite a few incediaries rested and blazed absent, out of quick achieve by the fire fighters.

    As the selection of incendiaries landing on the roof increased, the fires turned harder to tackle by the tiny workforce. Even when the Solihull Fireplace Brigade designed it by way of to the cathedral a while later on, the hoses quickly became broken, and the water supplies dried up. With drinking water mains around the town receiving fractured there was little hope of preventing again the flames.

    By around 11 pm, all the St. Michael’s fire fighters could do was remove as quite a few merchandise of worth as they could from the blazing building and retire to safety, leaving the uncontrollable flames to take in the medieval masterpiece.

    The future early morning, all that remained was a shell complete of rubble, and the tower and spire. Provost Howard mentioned later on that he nonetheless observed a feeling of beauty in the fallen masonry, as even though the genuine piles of rubble possessed one thing dwelling.

    To quite a few people it need to have seemed a mystery why the hearth eaten not only the combustible resources but also brought about the good pillars to fall. The purpose lies in the metal strengthening girders that had been connected to the roof beams around 1890 to reinforce the framework. The intensive heat from the flames prompted these to distort, and as they did so, they tugged at the masonry right up until the pillars and clerestory walls fell inwards and crashed to the floor.

    (b) Christ Church

    Christ Church survived the 14th. November 1940 raid that claimed the cathedral, but its luck finally ran out on the evening of the 10th. April 1941.

    Bombs crashed by the roof of the setting up, detrimental the partitions and dislodging the bell, which slammed into the flooring.

    The primary overall body of the church was declared unsafe and was demolished in 1950, even though the a lot more mature tower and spire had been saved.

    The Midland Day by day Telegraph noted:

    “Nazi vandalism which experienced now minimized
    the coronary heart of the town to a shambles of broken
    glass, piles of brickwork and masonry and
    smouldering woodwork, could not go away the
    scene of the tragedy by yourself.
    Most likely Goering experienced read that the ancient
    town of A few Spires had vowed to rise all over again
    and create anew.”

    Maintaining their well known a few-spire skyline furnished at least some little ease and comfort to people who experienced dropped practically every little thing else common to them.

    (c) Holy Trinity

    Holy Trinity survived WWII, and is the only entire medieval church in Coventry. It is a single of the greatest medieval parish churches in England with a spire of 72 metres (237 toes) and a length of 59 metres (194 toes) it is pretty much a cathedral in terms of its size.

    Holy Trinity has changed considerably as a result of its 900-yr history: virtually wrecked by hearth in 1257, it has been rebuilt, prolonged and redecorated as spiritual kinds and theologies have passed by Coventry.

    The church dates from the 12th. century. It was restored in 1665–1668, and the tower was re-cased in 1826 by Thomas Rickman. The east conclude was rebuilt in 1786, and the west front by Richard Charles Hussey in 1843.

    The inside of of the church was restored by George Gilbert Scott in 1854.

    Holy Trinity’s famous picture of Doom was painted above the tower arch in the 1430’s. It was learned in 1831, protected by a lime wash, and was then restored and varnished about by David Gee.

    In the decades next, the varnish darkened and hid the painting from view again. In 1995, conservation and restoration get the job done was begun, and the painting was uncovered 2004.

    The Coventry Blitz

    Possessing stood for around 500 yrs, St. Michael’s was bombed into oblivion during the Coventry Blitz of the 14th. November 1940 by the German Luftwaffe.

    The cathedral and the metropolis itself was bombed in a massive air raid which begun at 19.10 and did not stop right until dawn on the 15th. November.

    Wave just after wave of 500 enemy bombers dropped weighty calibre bombs and incendiaries indiscriminately on the city.

    The city’s tram method was destroyed. 4,330 residences had been diminished to rubble, and a few quarters of the city’s factories were severely destroyed.

    Other targets integrated two hospitals, two church buildings, resorts, clubs, cinemas, public shelters, swimming baths, a police station, a post office, and just about almost everything else was destroyed, alongside with significant injury to fuel and drinking water pipes.

    Patsy Wise

    So what else happened on the working day that Amy posted the card?

    Very well, the 14th. August 1918 marked the start in Chingford, Essex of Patsy Sensible.

    Patsy was an English actress, most effective remembered for her efficiency as Pass up Roberts in the 1970’s ITV television drama Upstairs, Downstairs.

    She also appeared in: Hazard Male, Only When I Chuckle, Dixon of Dock Inexperienced, Z-Automobiles, The Prisoner, The Avengers, The Sweeney, Health care provider Who, Blake’s 7, Threat UXB, The Chinese Detective, Minder, Rentaghost, Terry and June, Farrington of the F.O., Casualty, Hallelujah!, and The Bill.

    In her afterwards roles, Patsy was qualified at taking part in dotty old girls, her Mrs Sibley and Skip Dingle figures in Terry and June becoming illustrations. Another example was as the spouse of the gardener in the Pass up Marple episode “The Transferring Finger” which starred Joan Hickson.

    The Demise of Patsy Intelligent

    Patsy Wise died in Northwood, London of barbiturate poisoning on the 6th. February 1996, aged 77.

    Filmography of Patsy Sensible

    Notable appearances consist of:

    The Flying Scot (1957) – Mom (uncredited)
    Sons and Enthusiasts (1960) – Emma
    The Tell Tale Heart (1960) – Mrs. Marlow
    Return of a Stranger (1961) – Mrs. Rayner
    Design and style for Loving (1962) – Landlady
    What Just about every Woman Wishes (1962) – Hilda
    Arthur? Arthur! (1969) – Pass up Bonnamie
    Leo the Very last (1970) – Mrs. Kowalski
    The Raging Moon (1971) – Bruce’s Mom
    Steptoe and Son (1972) – Mrs. Hobbs
    O Lucky Man! (1973)
    Great Expectations (1974) – Mrs. Wopsle
    One particular of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing (1975) – Previous Maid (uncredited)
    Exposé (1976) – Mrs. Aston
    The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones (1976) – Village Gossip (uncredited)
    The Pink Panther Strikes Once more (1976) – Mrs. Japonica
    The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978) – Masseuse (uncredited)
    The Legacy (1978) – Prepare dinner
    Tess (1979) – Housekeeper
    The Wildcats of St. Trinian’s (1980) – Miss out on Warmold
    The Elephant Guy (1980) – Distraught Lady
    Electric powered Dreams (1984) – Lady in Ticket Line
    The Chain (1984) – Outdated Woman
    The Fourth Protocol (1987) – Preston’s Housekeeper

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