Amazing blog!!! I’d love to see a post about the Pacific Northwest regional architecture ’30s to ’60s! I’m a Seattle native and proud of some of my city’s architecture (like Koolhaas’s wonderful library) and utterly ashamed of some (Venturi’s art museum), but I’m so accustomed to the stereotypically “northwest” buildings that I often fail to truly appreciate the works that inspired this movement. Also, in your opinion, who is the greatest architectural photographer of all time?
There is one moment in time that defined mid-century in the Pacific Northwest: the 1962 World’s Fair in Seattle.
As planned, the exposition left behind a fairground and numerous public buildings and public works; some credit it with revitalizing Seattle’s economic and cultural life. The fair saw the construction of the Space Needle and Alweg monorail, as well as several sports venues (Washington State Coliseum, now KeyArena) and performing arts buildings (the Playhouse, now the Cornish Playhouse), most of which have since been replaced or heavily remodeled. [via]
The month’s work so far, on a single feature looks a bit like this:
while [ ! complete ];
{
do_edits
deploy
test || complete
destroy
}
Fortunately, we have our infrastructure tools built in such a way that a deploy takes about five minutes to spin up a complete, self-contained environment.
Unfortunately, because of the level of the feature that I’m dorking around with, if something goes wrong during the deploy, it takes about an hour to manually pry everything out of AWS.
While John worked today, I packed a lunch then coerced the Littles in the truck and drove us to the Edisto Beach, South Carolina over an hour away. Crazy, but mostly straight, two lane highways most of the way. We must have passed 150 churches in that 50 mile trip.
Kinda sad it took 6 weeks of Florida and half a week in South Carolina to finally see the Atlantic Ocean but now we’ve done it!
The Littles picked tons of shells and loaded their pockets. Some of the booty was left behind in our beach art.
On they way home we stopped off at a farm stand market and bought some veggies and a chocolate pie made from the farmer’s mother’s recipe. They have a family owned restaurant and they bake and can yummies to sell.
the rest of me 