friday january 27th 2006
Churches to Condos- Not a Novel Phenomenon
West Coast Perspective
Mini Church Conversion Slideshow
Across the country as congregations move out developers are moving in, converting houses of wor…
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If you have ever wandered the paths of Delaware Park along Parkside Avenue you probably have passed through a narrow space defined by these odd parapet walls (shown in the picture above). Nicely crafted of rough stone they seem somehow disembodied and without any purpose. You might ask why this little segment of non descript pathway warrants such a grand enclosure.
thursday january 26th 2006
2006 -The Year of the Dog
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The following was forwarded form Joann at The Co-op:
Chinese New Years- iGuo Niani (Survive the Beast). Are you hibernating? Well good, except its time to celebrate Chinese New Yearis! This year it starts on the 29th of January, the official beginning of the new lunar calendar and ends 15 days later on the f…
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This subtle Delaware mansion presents a very urban face to the city. It is actually a complex of three buildings pulled into a refined composition by a walled garden. The elegantly simple buildings include the main house, a gate house, and a carriage house forming a compound that fills its site. The main entrance opens directly onto Cleveland A…
wednesday january 25th 2006
Residences Planned for Former Church
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The Catholic Diocese has a deal in the works to sell the closed Immaculate Conception Church at the southwest corner of South Elmwood and Edward Street to a developer who is proposing a residential conversion project. The unknown developer is considering plans to convert the rectory into apartments and the church into condominiums. Built in 1900, the church was closed in July due to a shrinking parish population. The adjacent rectory was constructed in 1906. Immaculate Concept…
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While fumbling around on Flickr at the recommendation of "Fix Buffalo Today For Tomorrow" I stumbled on a treasure trove of Buffalo images. One that specifically caught my eye was this interior taken by David Coffee. I will have more from Mr. Coffee in the near future.
The image is of the interior of a building on Virginia near the corner of Delaware that I featured not too long ago on BR-O.
Approaching the Sidebar on Hertel Avenue, it is hard to accurately predict the interior. As the keyboard signage suggests, the Sidebar is a piano bar, but it is also a neighborhood bar with lots of surprises within. Once inside, the clean dEcor and Art Deco vibe practically transport you to the roaring twenties with black tin ceilings, checkerboard floors, and rich paint tones that complement custom murals and Leonetto Cappiello drink prints.
Cheektowaga native Andy DiAmico opened the Sidebar two years ago. He loves the neighborhood and is hopeful for the future of Hertel as new businesses are already moving in and building up. (Like the nearby Empire Gri…
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Imagine a place where you can hop on your bike and ride mountain bike trails through towering columns, with beautiful views of a lake and mountains. Also imagine this is a place where it never rains and is right in downtown Seattle. A dream has become reality when the City of Seattle opened the I-5 Colonnade Park in early December. It was constructed under a section of elevated highway much like the I-190 in downtown Buffalo. The Seattle Post Intelligencer
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The University of Buffalo School of Architecture and Planning kicks off its spring lecture series with a bang. Mahadev Raman will be speaking today on the Main Street campus. He is an environmental engineer who leads Arup's building design sector in the Americas. Based in New York he has worked in Europe and North America where he has collaborated with Richard Rogers, Foster & Partners, Richard Meier and numerous other significant architects on a range of major projects. His expertise is in the design of energy efficient buildings and he is currently working on plans for a new sustainable campus for the University of California. He also teaches at Princeton and Columbia. Arup is one of…
tuesday january 24th 2006
Glimmer of Hope for Cobblestone Complex
West Coast Perspective
Lost amid the relief (and justified disbelief) that Ellicott Development was proceeding with plans to renovate the Greystone Building, was the disclosure that the firm is still considering converting the former Fairmont Creamery (aka Arctic Freezer) in the Cobblestone District to lofts.
The eight-story brick building located at 199 Scott Street was built in 1920 and …
