University offers course in practical dismantling and same-site reuse

Hopewell Church [photo C&J Millhorn

Ohio, USA - The Reclaim + Remake course has been developed as a 6-credit eight-week (May 7 - June 30, 2012) design-build course offered by the Summer Institute for Architecture of the NAAB-accredited The Catholic...

Fall of Phaeton planter at the Winter Antiques Show

Carved marble planter with Fall of Phaeton relief [photo Barbara Israel

New York, USA - Barbara Israel will be exhibiting an antique sarcophagus planter, a figure of Hebe and a recumbent greyhound as well as American, English, and Continental statues, fountains, urns, benches and sundial...

Salvaging the Snoqualmie Falls Power Company

Circular window sashes [photos Dave Bennink

Washington, USA - On a cool and rainy Washington State morning we donned our harnesses and stepped into the personnel basket, double clipping onto its frame. The crane was signaled and it gently lifted us off the grou...

Super size architectural salvage American style

Architectural Salvage USA claw foot tubs [photo © Francoise Murat

Massachusetts, USA - I visit the East coast of the USA annually and have done so since 2005. The trips always take the usual slant of design, architecture, art, garden visiting themes with the added bonus of scouring disu...

BMRA look for new directors

Illinois, USA - The BMRA (Building Material Reuse Association of America) needs to find two new directors for which elections will be held on January 19th. In addition, depending on the decision by members about a pr...

Aesthetic bronze chairs sell for $16,000 at Kamelot

Pair of brass chairs by Charles Parker Co sold for $16,000 [photo Kamelot

Pennsylvania, USA - A pair of Aesthetic movement bronze chairs, c1890 by Charles Parker Co, were top lot at Kamelot's 744 lot architectural antiques, industrial and Victoriana sale on 22 October, selling for $16,000 (est...

Pantheon of Greek gods family tree

Part of the Greek gods family tree [from .ppt by Ivan Kozik

California, USA - A visual family tree of the panoply of Greek gods, from Chaos to the Olympians and beyond, appears on a handy webpage with a graphic made from a PowerPoint file created by Ivan Kozik, a USA programmer...

Brad Guy's academic take on U.S. architectural salvage

Brad Guy author of 'Unbuilding' [photo Salvo

Dist. of Col. (Washington DC), USA - How did he end up being one of the USA's most prominent building salvage gurus? Brad Guy originally trained as a dancer and theatre designer which was a kind of introduction into the field of architec...

Bucket List

Illinois, USA - Anyone who knows me has heard the story about my first deconstruction experience - my Dad and I salvaging bricks and lumber when his old high school building was being demolished. As a kid in the 60'...

NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission to auction its architectural salvage collection

4ft high carved stone steer head c1900s [photo NYC

New York, USA - New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission started an architectural salvage program in 1980 to reuse discarded elements from privately and publicly owned buildings across the city. The salvage...