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This is not the first time the store has fallen on hard times, with the collapse of their roof and a flood at its former location. But Crescenzi says those troubles were overcome with the loyalty and financial generosity of a few customers. She jokingly calls these donors the store’s “board members...
...strongest architect-client collaborations of the modern period. Brown and Neutra exchanged over 150 letters, telegrams and memos during the duration of the project, and the Browns were often intimately involved in the smallest of decisions, from the color of a bathroom to the overhang of a roof. “My purposes in building this home in the modern style,” Brown wrote to Neutra in the fall of 1936, “are threefold: first I wish the home to be comfortable and convenient to live in; secondly, I hope it will be a distinguished monument...
...Neutra’s drawings to convey the evolutionary process of the project, but simultaneously treats each work as a drawing in its own right. Small colored-pencil sketches of elevations and detailed graphite renderings of interior spaces hang near a large axonmetric view of the dining terraces roof and a huge floor-plan. Close inspection of these plans reveals a myriad of details: built in closets for Anne Brown’s hats, a soda-fountain in the children’s playroom and a sound-proof music room. In addition, the home had its own meteorological equipment...
...despite the meticulous planning, Windshield soon became an ironic symbol for the primacy of function over form in architecture. A week after the Browns moved into their new home, the wind of a hurricane tore off the roof of the house and popped out many of the houses windows and frames. Debris littered the grounds of the house, and it took a year to rebuild, although none of the traditional homes on Fisher’s Island suffered any damage. Not surprisingly, Neutra soon published an essay called “Regionalism,” touting the value of considering...
Meanwhile, the British government, which is committed to obtaining 10% of the country's electricity from renewable sources by 2010, continues to encourage development of wind, solar and wave power. Among 23 new solar roof projects, one will bring Northern Ireland its first solar panels. Scottish and Southern Energy, the country's largest generator of alternative energy, announced plans for a major investment in water and wind power programs, chiefly onshore wind turbines...