saving Rudolph

http://www.metropolismag.com/cda/story.php?artid=3437

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Advocates for saving Paul Rudolph’s Riverview High School suffered a blow at this Tuesday’s Sarasota County school board meeting. In effect, the school board voted 3-2 to demolish the 1958 paragon of natural ventilation and intelligent shading. The details of the resolution are complicated, but the result is that without further action, the modern masterpiece—one of 2008’s “100 most endangered sites” according to the World Monuments Fund—will be paved over for a parking lot within the next year to service the new, larger high school currently under construction adjacent to the old building [click the title of this post to read the full article, over at Metropolis].

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Posted: August 26th, 2008
at 10:53am by orangemenace


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