The program content and management to meet the expectations expressed by the client to provide a housing type T4 within certain parameters. The current building, for her portrayal structure, architecturally defined, and its close relationship with the adjacent facades of the project, presented by way of maintaining this facade and to submit only the necessary adjustments resulting from the introduction of a new range to to access by car into the new house.

Pretending to this facade incorporating new materials with existing ones. The programmatic increase over the current situation culminated in the demolition of existing housing, the building, the introduction of a new floor and the compatibility of the facade with a new program, required the adoption of solutions such as a lifting platform car parking and to improve dialogue between people and place, through the different slopes and the proposed construction.

The second floor of this proposal consists of two bedrooms, one bathroom and one suite. The suite oriented towards the east and in total harmony with spaces for the couple and the other bedroom faces west and in constant visual contact with the street. Read the rest of this entry »

Today’s urban scene of the week (er, scene of the month?) brings us to 567 Exchange Street, an alluringly spare, rustic loft building at the banks of Buffalo’s most historic and longest-enduring rail line, the Buffalo & Attica, first built in 1843 and later subsumed into the New York Central rail empire that connected the city to New York, Chicago, and the vast reaches of the continent beyond.

The four-story structure was not constructed at this site in 1900 for no reason. The Buffalo Lounge Co., for which the building was erected, chose this precise location because of the geography of the Hydraulics at the intersection of several rail lines, including the Erie and New York Central. The Buffalo Lounge Co. was directly linked to both lines via a rail bed that once existed behind the building. Read the rest of this entry »

The best public view of the Hydraulics, where nearly every major industrial building can be witnessed in a single, striking panorama, is from the Hamburg Street bridge looking east over Exchange Street. Read the rest of this entry »

Meteor Alley is one of the whimsically named spaces of Buffalo. Running over a two-block stretch parallel to North and South Division streets between Emslie and Lord, it is also one of the cool, hidden spots of the Hydraulics. Meteor Alley, renamed in 1893 from Anderson Alley to avoid confusion with Anderson Place, still has a pretty cosmic feel.

While the reason the name “Meteor Alley” was chosen is lost to history, it’s established that typically the City polled residents on a name choice. Perhaps kids in the neighborhood, fresh off reading Jules Verne’s From the Earth to the Moon, insisted it would be a neat idea, and their preferred name change prevailed. Either way, meteors and meteor showers invigorated the fascination of the public in the 1890s, as scientific theory on their nature and origin advanced considerably. The renaming of the space to “Meteor Alley” would have been very timely. Read the rest of this entry »