Valleacerón Chapel is located in the municipality of Almadenejos in an autonomous community of Castilla-La Mancha, designed by architects Sol Madridejos and Juan Carlos Sancho Osinaga is considered a milestone in avant-garde architecture in Spain. Read the rest of this entry »
Plans for future expansion, recorded in concrete projections at the eastern facade of the A & P Warehouse at 518 Hamburg Street, reveal optimistic prophesies of Buffalo’s continued industrial expansion from the early 20th century. The projections, forming a fine geometric pattern, are concrete supports for floor slabs of an expanded building that does not, and will likely never, exist.
The repetitive concrete stubs reveal an upbeat attitude about the city’s seemingly limitless economic growth, though an anticipated building expansion never came to pass. Read the rest of this entry »
New clues on the original appearance of the Larkin Gas Station have emerged, hiding in plain sight. In the rear of the long-vacant filling station at 725 Seneca, an Art Deco, brick and concrete facade reveals itself, giving some indication of what a retro, 1960s Gulf Oil sheathing may hide underneath its metal panels.
Commentor David Steele, a writer for Buffalo Rising and architect in Chicago, underscores what may be a preservation dilemma in the potential Read the rest of this entry »
