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Corridors of The Cor Jesu high school

Posted by admin on March 15th, 2010 and filed under Heritage Structure | 3 Comments »

The Cor Jesu High School in Malang town East Java was a historical building it was built in 1924, finished in 1926 during Netherlands colonial in Indonesia. Corridor between classroom still carefully although have ever experienced fired.

The ornament details on this building have an eccentric colonial design. One of the detail which is remain to defended as artistic object and still be functioned till now there are the Bell made from brass. Read the rest of this entry »

Where there is will, is that road

Posted by admin on March 9th, 2010 and filed under Infrastructure | 1 Comment »

How can the Hague meeting two million square feet of additional living space? That was the question on March 5 in theaters on Spui was made. A debate, following the successful photo exhibition living in The Hague, had to give an answer. The invited speakers had their opinion. The executive sat with head nodding.

Proposal for Conservation Black Madonna by Archipelago Designers.

“Living in The Hague” is a cartoon created by the nomadic house that seeks a complete picture of the Hague housing situation. Now, after realizing the three-VINEX locations: Wateringseveld, and Ypenburg Leidschenveen, a clear picture which emerges from the deficiencies of the fourth policy paper, seized the opportunity the current demand for housing in an intelligent way to deal with. Read the rest of this entry »

Larkin Building U gets cleaned out

Posted by admin on March 5th, 2010 and filed under Building | 1 Comment »

The former Larkin Building U is being cleaned out by Rogers Foam Corp., the automotive parts manufacturer that bought out the now defunct Par Foam Products, Inc., a competitor. Par Foam Products, which occupied the historic factory complex at 237 Van Rensselaer Street for more than two decades, was closed late last year and its assets are now reportedly being shipped to other plants or discarded.

Larkin Building U is now getting closer by the day to a clean slate, a cleared, highly adaptable structure poised for a new economic purpose. While the future of the building is unclear, its potential becomes even more vividly apparent as the building is vacated. Read the rest of this entry »

F. N. Burt was world’s largest paper box manufacturer

Posted by admin on March 2nd, 2010 and filed under Construction | 1 Comment »

Did you know the largest manufacturer of small paper boxes in the world was in Buffalo? Consider yourself now in the know! The F. N. Burt Company, whose sprawling factory complex at Seneca and Hamburg streets churned out upwards of four million boxes a day, was one of the largest employers in the Hydraulics and one of the shining lights of Buffalo industry.

F. N. Burt, an innovator in graphic design, was one of the most respected box manufacturers on the planet. Renowned for the glamour and sophistication of its manufactures, the company experienced tremendous growth in the early 20th century that coincided with, as well as contributed to, the emergence of the stylized box as an advertising vehicle for mass-produced consumer goods. Its prodigious, 400,000 sq. ft. factory complex is entirely intact – every building it ever constructed on Seneca Street from 1901-1927 still stands, a miracle by any standard in industrial heritage preservation. Read the rest of this entry »