2-3-11 [from the archives, March 2007]
February 4, 2011 at 8:01 am | Posted in anchorage, architecture and design, photo du jour | Leave a commentTags: 3rd ave., A st., alaska, anchorage, apartment building, architecture, daily photo, night
Apartment building at 3rd Ave. and A St., downtown.
11-19-10
December 26, 2010 at 11:13 pm | Posted in architecture and design, photo du jour | Leave a commentTags: architecture, daily photo, historic, house, snohomish, victorian, WA, washington state
Victorian house, Snohomish, WA.
9-26-10 [from the archives, October 2006]
October 26, 2010 at 7:15 am | Posted in alaska, architecture and design, photo du jour | Leave a commentTags: alaska, architecture, daily photo, house, japanese, ranch, sitka
Japanese style ranch house, Sitka, AK.
5-8-10
May 9, 2010 at 6:22 pm | Posted in anchorage, architecture and design, photo du jour, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: anchorage, architecture, daily photo, fairview, house, renovation
An old house in Fairview, on the verge of transformation.
3-1-10
March 3, 2010 at 5:15 am | Posted in alaska, anchorage, architecture and design, photo du jour, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: alaska, anchorage, architecture, C st., courtyard apts., daily photo, housing, modular construction
I’ve been watching this place go up near my son’s building. It was built really quickly, using modular units trucked to the site and stacked atop and beside each other.
It’s not super deluxe, high end housing — and it sits right next to a busy arterial — but they made a lot of right moves here. It is well sited, and each narrow two story unit has two ground floor doors, a second story and a rooftop deck. Residents will enjoy great views from those decks, and the courtyard between the three buildings has southern exposure.
It’s nice to see higher quality multifamily dwellings popping up on urban infill lots. Perhaps it’s a silver lining to a slow economy — builders feeling like they have to try a little harder to attract tenants?
1-11-10
January 14, 2010 at 7:47 am | Posted in anchorage, architecture and design, photo du jour | Leave a commentTags: alaska, anchorage, anchorage museum, architecture, daily photo
7-20-09
July 26, 2009 at 4:25 pm | Posted in photo du jour, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: architecture, california, daily photo, house, sacramento, victorian
Ornate, beautiful Victorian house, Sacramento.
7-17-09
July 20, 2009 at 12:13 am | Posted in architecture and design, photo du jour, Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: architecture, ashland, daily photo, house, oregon
A real gem of a house, Ashland, Oregon.
Documenting the demise of St. Louis
December 10, 2008 at 7:48 am | Posted in Uncategorized | Leave a commentTags: architecture, renovation, st louis, urban decline
Street in Blairmont, St. Louis. Fate uncertain, slated for demo.
From the blog adjunct of the Built St. Louis website [I also added a link to the Blogroll sidebar here].
The author has put up over 200 sequential posts about Blairmont, a neighborhood presently unoccupied, owned by a developer and slated to be torn down. Maybe the economic downtown will become an opportunity for someone to save it. It sounds like it is close to Soulard, an area of St. Louis that has been renovated.
It’s painful to see. Most of the houses in Blairmont are masonry and brick construction, high ceilinged, well detailed and built to last. There’s hardly a single house in the state of Alaska that comes close to this quality. I made two trips to the Midwest, in 2001 and 2002. I had an opportunity to look around St. Louis quite a bit. What an incredible architectural heritage and resource. Observing the decline of East St. Louis, Detroit and lots of other places in the region, one sees a modern, senseless and not at all inevitable tragedy.
8-24-08
August 25, 2008 at 6:18 am | Posted in photo du jour | Leave a commentTags: anchorage, architecture, daily photo, housing, redevelopment
Condo building under construction at 15th and A St.
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