Saturday, June 27, 2020
Inancienation
I've used the above word once before, and the bots that "read" this blog seem to like it, since it provides a unique search term. So I'll satisfy their tastes again.
For the last ten years I've been tracking the decay and renovation of a vacant apt bldg in this neighborhood.
Here's how it looked for many years:
Here's the fake start of renovation about two years ago:
And the first demo about six months ago:
Now they're FINALLY working steadily. They've closed off some windows and reshaped others, and reframed the inner walls.
This week they did something innovative, or rather inancienative.
They tore off the rotten old porch cover on the left and replaced it with an EXACT REPLICA of the nicer porch on the right. Respecting the original designer. My crappy picture doesn't do it justice. All the dimensions and bevels are exact.
Good work!
Random stupid thought: If copyright laws applied to architecture, this form of respect and symmetry would be illegal. According to county records this apt was built in 1923, just after the Steamboat Willie line specified by the Disney-owned copyright "law". All additions would have to be mismatched.
Here's the fake start of renovation about two years ago:
And the first demo about six months ago:
Now they're FINALLY working steadily. They've closed off some windows and reshaped others, and reframed the inner walls.
This week they did something innovative, or rather inancienative.
They tore off the rotten old porch cover on the left and replaced it with an EXACT REPLICA of the nicer porch on the right. Respecting the original designer. My crappy picture doesn't do it justice. All the dimensions and bevels are exact.
Good work!
Random stupid thought: If copyright laws applied to architecture, this form of respect and symmetry would be illegal. According to county records this apt was built in 1923, just after the Steamboat Willie line specified by the Disney-owned copyright "law". All additions would have to be mismatched.Labels: Heimatkunde, Patient things
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