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Civic,
State, & Federal Office Buildings
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The U.S. General
Services Administration has produced and maintains links to a number
of interesting documents. All are available on-line at the GSA Historic
Preservation website.
Link here to download the following PDF documents:
Federal Modernism
Growth, Efficiency
& Modernism: GSA Buildings of the 1950s, 60s and 70s was
published in the fall of 2003.
GEM Assessment
Tool, published as part of the Growth, Efficiency & Modernism
book listed above.
Architecture
of the Great Society summarizes comments and issues from a forum
held at Yale University assessing GSA's buildings constructed during
the 1960s and 1970s.
The Byron
G. Rogers Federal Building and Courthouse Case Study is an example
of a First Impressions Project in a 1960s modernist building.
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Demolished:
Buena Park Civic
Center, Buena Park, California. Smith & Williams, 1957. Demolished
2003.
More
photos
Replaced by a building that "incorporates Mediterranean and mission
style elements to reflect the flavor of Buena Park’s historic district."
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Do
You Like This Building? The
Zorinsky Federal Building is one of any number of governmental
structures completed in post World War II America. Does it have
any historical value? The author of a brochure by the Committee
to Save Omaha's Architectural Heritage thinks it does, stating
that the Zorinsky is an architecturally significant structure. We'd
like more information, but we don't know who wrote the brochure.
If you have a lead, contact info@recentpast.org.
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Endangered!
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The
Vandenberg Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan, home of the
city and county offices, replaced the Grand Rapids City Hall (1888)
in a controversial 1969 project. Now the Skidmore, Owings, and
Merrill- designed buildings are endangered by the prospect of
a new hotel development on the site. Jennifer Metz, of Grand Rapids,
is leading the charge to save these structures and prevent moving
of the Calder stabile (1969) installed on the open Miesian plaza.
She needs volunteers to help save the buildings. Read
more on this issue and see more photos... |
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 Olympia
City Hall, Olympia, Washington, Robert H. Wohleb, 1962. The
interior courtyard of this building was originally a fish pond which
gave the appearance of the council chamber being surrounded by a moat.
See more photos of this unusual building on our feature
page with photos by Michael Houser. |
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