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Marlan Blackwell’s Arkansas House
August 8th, 2008
Thanks to my buddy at Justin at
Materialicious for bringing this one to my attention. These guys are doing some great things in our neighboring state, Arkansas.
Description from the architect’s site:
The challenge for the Arkansas House was to reassemble a fire-damaged home and introduce possibilities for re-thinking the house’s spatial character by adding new elements. The low-slung existing tartan grid structure was instilled with a new sense of hierarchy through the addition of light monitors and suspended lofts to the children’s spaces, a new kitchen, and a great room with a saddle-back roof for living, entertaining, and the display of fine art. Comfortably astride the old house, the angled shell forms exude empathy with a rusted barn nearby; the effects of weather and dripping tree sap provide their rusted surfaces with character - raw and visceral - a foil to the painted shades of beige on the walls below
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Visit the TFA Archives July 1st
June 18th, 2008
Come put on your white gloves (literally) and see original photos and blueprints of classic Tulsa modern architecture. Should be fun! Thank you TFA for hosting this event. White gloves provided.
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2008 National Preservation Meeting
June 16th, 2008
The final Local Advisory Committee meeting for the
2008 National Preservation Conference will be held on Thursday, June 19, 4:30 - 6:00pm, in the Manchester Room at the
Doubletree Hotel Downtown,
616 W. 7th Street.
Anyone who is interested or in any way involved in the conference should make plans to attend! Representatives from the National Trust for Historic Preservation will be discussing conference program highlights, marketing, and volunteer opportunities.
If you plan to attend, please call (202) 588-6100 or email conference@nthp.org by Friday, June 13.
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Google Maps Street View Comes to Tulsa
June 16th, 2008
From batesline
Sometime this past winter (judging from how low the sun is in the sky and the presence of piles of ice storm debris in many photos), Google sent its 360-degree car mounted camera around Tulsa, taking street view photos of nearly every street. (Hat tip to Steve Roemerman, who to a Street View of his old house with his truck parked inside.
Street View images are more recent than Google’s satellite view: The satellite still shows the old Mayo Meadow Shopping Center, while Street View shows Wal-Mart Neighborhood Market. Bell’s Amusement Park is still there on the satellite image, but the replacement slab of asphalt shows up in Street View.
If you were wondering what was there along I-44 before ODOT bulldozed it, Street View can help (at least until they return for another pass). Here are the Monticello Apts. near 51st St and Birmingham Ave. And here’s the entrance to Dick Gordon’s guitar studio at 51st & Trenton.
(Too bad they didn’t have Street View when Beryl Ford started collecting photos.)
There are all sorts of oddities that turn up. So far this is my favorite: The Street View of Cain’s Ballroom shows people in sleeping bags lined up for tickets to some concert.
The folks over at TulsaNow’s public forum are having fun spotting interesting street scenes and speculating on when the photos were taken. User PonderInc wants to know, “So, can we pay them to come back to Tulsa in April and May, when everything’s blooming and green?!”
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Dubai Goes Green
June 10th, 2008
courtesy of 2modern.com
Starting at the beginning of this year, Dubai instated green building standards and concepts without exception, following in the footsteps of Abu Dhabi which began looking at such initiatives in 2006. Here are a few buildings that are making the mark in both Dubai and Abu Dhabi…and a great POSIT studio/dubai building that gives a whole new meaning to bringing the “outdoors in.”
Abu Dhabi sees it’s first carbon-neutral car-free zero waste city called Masdar by architecture great Norman Foster and his firm, Foster + Partners. It is simply an amazing feat for anywhere in the world, and even more so for the highest hydrocarbon-producing nation on Earth! And with the assistance of MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, the UAE once again brings the world together for a great cause, claiming stake as a nation with international eyes with MIT’s help in establishing Masdar Institute, a technology driven cutting-edge research and education engine…go green!
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New MoveModern Listing
June 8th, 2008
Here is a cool listing that caught my eye on MoveModern. No, there isn’t an ocean in Tulsa but we can dream can’t we. Thought I’d share. This La Jolla, CA home is currently being offered at $9,975,000
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Taizo Kuroda Pottery
June 8th, 2008
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Resounding Success
May 9th, 2008
Modern Tulsa’s debut last night was a resounding success. With 100+ in attendance it was quickly apparent that Modern Tulsa had hit a nerve that we believed to be there all along. Photographs of last nights event will be available shortly. Stay tuned for more event announcements as well as an increase in Modern Tulsa articles. We would like to thank those who made last night possible, The Fadem Family, Herman Miller, Maharam and RetroRedo.com. We would like to especially thank those who were in attendance. In order for Modern Tulsa to truly be effective we rely on the participation of those individuals in Tulsa who feel passionately about the architecture and design of our collective heritage.
If you have not joined TFA yet, please visit their website here and become a member to show your support in our mission to preserve and promote Tulsa architecture. (Membership is only $35)
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Tomorrow’s Event - How to get there.
May 7th, 2008
We have had wonderful response regarding our up and coming event and anticipate a huge turnout of genuinely interested people tomorrow. Now as long as the weather cooperates we are going to have a blast. Well, we will probably have a good time in any case though a sunny day would be nice.
I wanted to inform you that the address of the event is 6259 S Jamestown Ave. rather than 6529, as the first version of our flier stated. Please see the map below. Head for the green ellipse rather than the arrow. I will post some signs around the neighborhood as well.
I am personally very excited to get to know all of you I have yet to meet. See you all tomorrow! - cole
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modernTULSA debut
May 2nd, 2008
Join us May 8th for an evening of food, drink and design as we celebrate the debut of modernTULSA.
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