Category: Blog
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Old is New
The Cool Hunter website has some beautiful photos of modern additions and insertions of new buildings and elements into old historic buildings. In all of them, the new is juxtaposed to the old rather than trying to restore the building to an original state, or reuse a traditional or classical architectural vocabulary. This approach is…
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Schools leading the way
The citizens of Portland voted overwhelmingly to pass a bond measure that upgrades a number of Portland schools. It pays for some basic seismic upgrades on a 26 schools and completely modernizes three high schools and one grade school. It is a first step to the modernization of all Portland’s schools, which at the end…
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Depot Update, Astoria
The grout has been cut out from all the joints and the building has been pressure washed. The masons are now pinning the face brick back to the structural brick. Once this is completed they will start re-pointing. The demolition of the interior partitions has been completed and you can see the grandeur of the…