Home Exterior Design - World-of-Newave.info World-of-Newave.info http://www.world-of-newave.info/ 2008-11-23T20:22:42Z Latest news and articles about Home Exterior Design Copyright (c)2004-2008.§/Newave SARL. All rights reserved. {EUROPE > NEWS AND MEDIA} - Rachel Cooke visits the rejuvenated blocks of Sheffield's Park Hill estate Some children are brought up to love cats and hate dogs, others to adore Manchester United and despise Liverpool. I was brought up to revere Victorian architecture and to abhor modern buildings. Modern buildings, whatever their vintage, whatever their supposed virtues, were rubbish and that was that. In the 1980s, an 'executive' estate was built on the field opposite our Sheffield home. For my parents, midway through restoring their black-leaded fireplaces, the arrival of these buildings involved a certain amount of trauma, an anxiety that transmitted itself to me. Our terrace was built of local sandstone and, darkened by age and industry, its exterior always reminded me of burnt toast. These houses, though, were built of brick so bright it made my eyes ache and they had gleaming tarmac drives which looked, even in dry weather, like licks of liquorice. At night, I lay in bed and indulged in violent fantasies in which I went Awol with a wrecking ball.In Sheffield, haters of modern architecture had a perfect focus for their loathing in the form of Park Hill, the council estate that is now the biggest listed building in Britain. As a teenager, I hated Park Hill even more than I loathed Mrs Thatcher, for the simple reason that it made people think badly of my city. It wasn't just that no one liked so-called Brutalism. By the mid-1980s, the flats, then nearly 30 years old, were in a sorry state: dilapidated, and reputedly crammed with the council's most difficult tenants. Yet no visitor could escape them. The estate sits high on a cliff, overlooking the railway station, dominating the landscape like some great prison (a friend of a friend was once told by a taxi driver that Park Hill had been built, not in the late 1950s, but in the 1930s and that had Hitler invaded Britain, it would have been the site of his HQ). When I went to university and told people where I was from, they would wrinkle their noses and say: 'Oh, I went through there once on the train...' and you just knew that they were picturing Park Hill. It was embarrassing. Why couldn't the council knock the thing down and start again? Strange, then, that all these years later Park Hill is not only one of the buildings that I like most in the world, but the cause of an unexpected passion on my part for 20th-century buildings in general and 1960s buildings in particular (though I still hate executive estates and always will). This is not to say that I love every bit of concrete I see. The more I learn, the more I realise that postwar architecture is like any other kind of architecture: some is good, some bad. Recently, I visited Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, east London, a scheme with which Park Hill is often compared, and a recent Brutalist cause celebre (in July, to much gnashing of teeth from architecture nerds, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, advised by English Heritage, ruled that the estate, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972, would not be listed, though the Twentieth Century Society has since been successful in its request for a legal review of this decision). Thanks to my new fondness for grey slabs, I expected, if not to love it, then to want to save it; this is the only housing scheme that the radical Smithsons ever managed to get built. But the DCMS was right. Robin Hood Gardens is neither generous, nor well-built, and its site has changed beyond all recognition in the last 30 years, its old dockyard views gone, its 'gardens' polluted by the relentless grind of traffic into the Blackwall Tunnel. It is beyond saving, as its fans would find out if they ran a competition among developers for its renovation (there isn't a company in the land that would want that gig).But Park Hill is not Robin Hood Gardens. Once a great and innovative building, it one day will be again. In the last year, Sheffield City Council's ambitious plan to give the estate a second life as a hip home for urban professionals has at last got under way: tenants have moved out and Urban Splash, the development company, has moved in. When I first heard about this project, I assumed that these residents, worn down by living in a building so down at heel, would be glad to escape, that they'd say to the incoming yuppies: 'You're welcome to it' and score themselves a nice new house. I was wrong. More than 200 have put down their names for the share of Park Hill that will eventually be owned by Manchester Methodist Housing Association (determined that the site be socially mixed, the council has decreed that a third of the 900 new flats will be 'affordable' and two-thirds of those will be for social rent). Some are living elsewhere and hope to return. A hard core, however, remains on site even as the dust rises around them. This lot love Park Hill and don't like the idea of living anywhere else.Cut to last April, when all this started. Until now, I've never been inside Park Hill. Once I'm standing in the middle of it, though, two things strike me. The first is the sense of drama that builds as you walk through its courtyards, which get grander the higher the flats grow (built on a hill, the lowest tower sits on the site's highest point and vice versa); their embrace makes me think not of A Clockwork Orange but of the Colosseum in Rome. The second is the fact that Park Hill, unlike Robin Hood Gardens and its listed neighbour, Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower, is not built of concrete. Its frame is concrete but its curtain walls are made of red, orange and yellow brick. Thanks to the damage wrought by heavy pollution, this is not something you can tell from the street. Beside me, in the whipping cold, Grenville Squires, a caretaker who has worked here for 26 years - until recently, he lived here, too - is hopping with excitement. He loves tourists. 'The way it all fits together,' he says. 'It's like a jigsaw puzzle. I look at it as a feat of engineering. It was so clever. It had a district heating system - the only place with one like it was in Norway, where they'd capped a geyser - and a communal waste disposal system [this survived until the advent of disposable nappies]. When the new developers did a concrete survey, they found that it is not yet a third of the way through its life.' We get in Grenville's electric cart, and he drives me along Park Hill's interconnected decks to prove that the now much derided 'streets in the sky' really were wide enough to take a milk float. When we get to a suitable vantage point, he attempts to describe the estate as it was. 'There were four pubs, a supermarket, a hardware shop, a butcher's, a ladies' shoe shop, a chip shop. It was like a medieval village; you didn't have to leave.'So he doesn't believe that it was Park Hill's architects, Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, who are to blame for what eventually became of the estate? That their design was too brutal, too idealistic, too rigidly controlling? 'No, it was the council's fault. They gave anyone who wanted one a flat and they didn't work hard enough at maintenance. She's lovely [the building]. She's my mistress, the only lady who's fetched me from the marital bed at two in the morning and made demands. She has come on hard times, but all she's got to do is wash her face and put on a new dress and she will be fine.'At the Park Hill social club, I meet the hard core who remain in residence; they are of the same opinion. Brenda Hague was 22 when she moved into Park Hill on 7 December 1959. Was she full of foreboding as she took possession of her neat new flat with its covetable kitchen, a reconstruction of which I have just seen in Sheffield's Weston Park Museum? Not at all. 'It was luxury,' she says. 'Me, my husband and our baby were living in a back-to-back. My parents were there, too, and my brother. We had no bathroom, just a tin bath on the back of the door. So when we got here it was marvellous. Three bedrooms, hot water, always warm. And the view. It's lovely, especially at night, when it's all lit up.'In those days, Park Hill was a quiet place, most of its tenants young families. But even when it began to be run down, in the 1980s, her fondness endured. 'It always felt safe to me. They say it looks horrible. Maybe it does from the outside. It's what's inside that counts. My son lives in Harrogate now and he has nothing but fond memories.'How does she feel about the refurbishment? Pleased, so long as she can remain where she's always been. I ask her friend Edith Bradbury, another resident of almost half a century, if it's hard to imagine a new Park Hill, rising like a phoenix from the ashes of its previous incarnation. 'It is. But it was hard to imagine it when it first went up. All the little streets this replaced. Who'd have thought it?''Will it work? Will it be a success?' 'Yes. I think it is going to be lovely.'Park Hill tells the story of a century. The streets it replaced were home to some of the worst slums in Europe, people living 400 to the acre in houses so tightly packed they barely saw the sun, their only access to water a standpipe in the yard. But they had work. The valley that Park Hill lords it over was home to steel mills, mines and the workshops of the Little Mesters, the craftsmen who made the finest cutlery in the world. Park Hill's fortunes faded as this industry evaporated into thin air; between 1979 and 1989, 53,000 jobs were lost in a city of 200,000. What interests me, though, is what the estate tells us about our relationship with modern buildings. These days, a single structure can come to represent a world view, standing proxy for our aesthetics and our politics. I used to hate it and now I like it. Perhaps you think this tells you a lot about me, but it doesn't really. Or it shouldn't. Park Hill is only one building. This is why we should treat with caution the arguments of commentators like Simon Jenkins, the new chairman of the National Trust, who deride all Brutalist buildings, the 'ideologues' who created them and the intellectuals and theorists who praise them while choosing to live in Georgian terraces. Brenda Hague is no theorist, nor is Ivor Smith an ideologue. 'When Reyner Banham [the architecture critic] called us Brutalists, we didn't know what it meant,' says Smith (his partner Jack Lynn is dead). 'We didn't think we were Brutalists. We thought we were quite nice guys.'When work began on Park Hill in 1957, he and Lynn were young, newly qualified, full of youthful enthusiasm and inspired by the optimism abroad in postwar Britain, however austere. 'The Unité [by le Corbusier, in Marseille] had just been built and it was exciting. But it wasn't an infatuation. We'd also made drawings of John Wood's crescents in Bath.'Returning to Park Hill after 35 years, he thought it looked 'marvellous' from the town. Was there anything he would have done differently? 'The decks. A street has windows at street level. But at Park Hill, conditioned by best value for money, we couldn't have windows on to the pavements.' Does he like Urban Splash's ideas? 'Yes, though if anything I think they could be more daring.'What of those ideas? The company has produced a flash brochure to showcase its £130m refurbishment of Park Hill and it makes for cheering, if occasionally comic, reading. To the naysayers, it points out that the density of the site - 192 people per acre - is well in excess of what the government considers to be a sustainable community and that the flats' original plans are more generous than the boxes favoured by modern developers. So, Park Hill is a 'bruiser'. The company will give it 'romance': oak trees, allotments, a wildflower meadow, crown green bowls, a dance studio, a high street ('a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker'). The marketeers write of wanting to build a 'yellow brick road' leading to a city sweet shop, Granelli's Spice ('spice' is a Sheffield word for sweets and Bertie Bassett one of its most famous sons). Cutest of all, the company will retain the graffiti that adorns Park Hill 13 storeys up and which once had a starring role in an Arctic Monkeys video: 'I LOVE YOU WILL U MARRY ME'. But none of this would be happening at all were it not for the building itself. English Heritage's controversial decision to confer Grade II* listed status on Park Hill in 1998, for its contribution to British Modernism, now seems prescient and wise. It surely would have been demolished otherwise and lots of identical, red-brick boxes stuck in its place. Of course, refurbishments of modernist buildings are extremely challenging and not all successful. In Islington, residents of Lubetkin's Spa Green Estate are taking legal action over the recent refurbishment of their homes, claiming the work was 'poor at best, and damaging at worst'. But for the time being, the sense of hope and expectation at Park Hill is palpable. After my visit, I catch the bus home to our toasty old terrace and, over supper, I ask my mother, ever so politely, if she has thought about where she will live in her retirement.Good, bad, ugly? Modernist landmarksRoyal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London, by Denys Lasdun (1964)Most people know Lasdun for the Royal National Theatre, but this is miles better; its elegant sensibility seems to owe more to Frank Lloyd Wright thanle Corbusier.Hunstanton Secondary School, Norfolk, by Alison and Peter Smithson (1949-1954)The building that made them famous: a steel frame with brick and glass panels, and a water tank high on a tower, it's a small-scale homage to Mies van der Rohe.2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London, by Ernö Goldfinger (1938)Goldfinger is best known for his immense Brutalist tower blocks, Trellick Tower in North Kensington, and Balfron Tower in Poplar. Willow Road, his home, is more gentle and notable for its clever use of space and a spiral staircase designed by Ove Arup.Trinity Square car park, Gateshead, by Owen Luder and Rodney Gordon (1969)Also known as the Get Carter car park, after the 1971 film in which it appears. See it now: its demolition is imminent. Gordon also designed the unpopular Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth - demolished in 2004 - and the Michael Faraday Memorial at Elephant and Castle in south London.Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee, by Victor Pasmore (1963-1970)Controversial piece of abstract public art in the Sunny Blunts housing estate. A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has recently been awarded for its restoration.Architectureguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/europe/united-kingdom/news-and-media/rachel-cooke-visits-the-rejuvenated-blocks-of-sheffield-20081186125.htm 2008-11-23T00:07:21Z 2008-11-23T00:07:21Z Guardian.Co.Uk http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/nov/23/sheffield-park-hill-estate-architecture Rachel Cooke visits the rejuvenated blocks of Sheffield's Park Hill estate {new window}   Www.Guardian.Co.Uk - Some children are brought up to love cats and hate dogs, others to adore Manchester United and despise Liverpool. I was brought up to revere Victorian architecture and to abhor modern buildings. Modern buildings, whatever their vintage, whatever their supposed virtues, were rubbish and that was that. In the 1980s, an 'executive' estate was built on the field opposite our Sheffield home. For my parents, midway through restoring their black-leaded fireplaces, the arrival of these buildings involved a certain amount of trauma, an anxiety that transmitted itself to me. Our terrace was built of local sandstone and, darkened by age and industry, its exterior always reminded me of burnt toast. These houses, though, were built of brick so bright it made my eyes ache and they had gleaming tarmac drives which looked, even in dry weather, like licks of liquorice. At night, I lay in bed and indulged in violent fantasies in which I went Awol with a wrecking ball.In Sheffield, haters of modern architecture had a perfect focus for their loathing in the form of Park Hill, the council estate that is now the biggest listed building in Britain. As a teenager, I hated Park Hill even more than I loathed Mrs Thatcher, for the simple reason that it made people think badly of my city. It wasn't just that no one liked so-called Brutalism. By the mid-1980s, the flats, then nearly 30 years old, were in a sorry state: dilapidated, and reputedly crammed with the council's most difficult tenants. Yet no visitor could escape them. The estate sits high on a cliff, overlooking the railway station, dominating the landscape like some great prison (a friend of a friend was once told by a taxi driver that Park Hill had been built, not in the late 1950s, but in the 1930s and that had Hitler invaded Britain, it would have been the site of his HQ). When I went to university and told people where I was from, they would wrinkle their noses and say: 'Oh, I went through there once on the train...' and you just knew that they were picturing Park Hill. It was embarrassing. Why couldn't the council knock the thing down and start again? Strange, then, that all these years later Park Hill is not only one of the buildings that I like most in the world, but the cause of an unexpected passion on my part for 20th-century buildings in general and 1960s buildings in particular (though I still hate executive estates and always will). This is not to say that I love every bit of concrete I see. The more I learn, the more I realise that postwar architecture is like any other kind of architecture: some is good, some bad. Recently, I visited Robin Hood Gardens in Poplar, east London, a scheme with which Park Hill is often compared, and a recent Brutalist cause celebre (in July, to much gnashing of teeth from architecture nerds, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, advised by English Heritage, ruled that the estate, designed by Alison and Peter Smithson and completed in 1972, would not be listed, though the Twentieth Century Society has since been successful in its request for a legal review of this decision). Thanks to my new fondness for grey slabs, I expected, if not to love it, then to want to save it; this is the only housing scheme that the radical Smithsons ever managed to get built. But the DCMS was right. Robin Hood Gardens is neither generous, nor well-built, and its site has changed beyond all recognition in the last 30 years, its old dockyard views gone, its 'gardens' polluted by the relentless grind of traffic into the Blackwall Tunnel. It is beyond saving, as its fans would find out if they ran a competition among developers for its renovation (there isn't a company in the land that would want that gig).But Park Hill is not Robin Hood Gardens. Once a great and innovative building, it one day will be again. In the last year, Sheffield City Council's ambitious plan to give the estate a second life as a hip home for urban professionals has at last got under way: tenants have moved out and Urban Splash, the development company, has moved in. When I first heard about this project, I assumed that these residents, worn down by living in a building so down at heel, would be glad to escape, that they'd say to the incoming yuppies: 'You're welcome to it' and score themselves a nice new house. I was wrong. More than 200 have put down their names for the share of Park Hill that will eventually be owned by Manchester Methodist Housing Association (determined that the site be socially mixed, the council has decreed that a third of the 900 new flats will be 'affordable' and two-thirds of those will be for social rent). Some are living elsewhere and hope to return. A hard core, however, remains on site even as the dust rises around them. This lot love Park Hill and don't like the idea of living anywhere else.Cut to last April, when all this started. Until now, I've never been inside Park Hill. Once I'm standing in the middle of it, though, two things strike me. The first is the sense of drama that builds as you walk through its courtyards, which get grander the higher the flats grow (built on a hill, the lowest tower sits on the site's highest point and vice versa); their embrace makes me think not of A Clockwork Orange but of the Colosseum in Rome. The second is the fact that Park Hill, unlike Robin Hood Gardens and its listed neighbour, Ernö Goldfinger's Balfron Tower, is not built of concrete. Its frame is concrete but its curtain walls are made of red, orange and yellow brick. Thanks to the damage wrought by heavy pollution, this is not something you can tell from the street. Beside me, in the whipping cold, Grenville Squires, a caretaker who has worked here for 26 years - until recently, he lived here, too - is hopping with excitement. He loves tourists. 'The way it all fits together,' he says. 'It's like a jigsaw puzzle. I look at it as a feat of engineering. It was so clever. It had a district heating system - the only place with one like it was in Norway, where they'd capped a geyser - and a communal waste disposal system [this survived until the advent of disposable nappies]. When the new developers did a concrete survey, they found that it is not yet a third of the way through its life.' We get in Grenville's electric cart, and he drives me along Park Hill's interconnected decks to prove that the now much derided 'streets in the sky' really were wide enough to take a milk float. When we get to a suitable vantage point, he attempts to describe the estate as it was. 'There were four pubs, a supermarket, a hardware shop, a butcher's, a ladies' shoe shop, a chip shop. It was like a medieval village; you didn't have to leave.'So he doesn't believe that it was Park Hill's architects, Jack Lynn and Ivor Smith, who are to blame for what eventually became of the estate? That their design was too brutal, too idealistic, too rigidly controlling? 'No, it was the council's fault. They gave anyone who wanted one a flat and they didn't work hard enough at maintenance. She's lovely [the building]. She's my mistress, the only lady who's fetched me from the marital bed at two in the morning and made demands. She has come on hard times, but all she's got to do is wash her face and put on a new dress and she will be fine.'At the Park Hill social club, I meet the hard core who remain in residence; they are of the same opinion. Brenda Hague was 22 when she moved into Park Hill on 7 December 1959. Was she full of foreboding as she took possession of her neat new flat with its covetable kitchen, a reconstruction of which I have just seen in Sheffield's Weston Park Museum? Not at all. 'It was luxury,' she says. 'Me, my husband and our baby were living in a back-to-back. My parents were there, too, and my brother. We had no bathroom, just a tin bath on the back of the door. So when we got here it was marvellous. Three bedrooms, hot water, always warm. And the view. It's lovely, especially at night, when it's all lit up.'In those days, Park Hill was a quiet place, most of its tenants young families. But even when it began to be run down, in the 1980s, her fondness endured. 'It always felt safe to me. They say it looks horrible. Maybe it does from the outside. It's what's inside that counts. My son lives in Harrogate now and he has nothing but fond memories.'How does she feel about the refurbishment? Pleased, so long as she can remain where she's always been. I ask her friend Edith Bradbury, another resident of almost half a century, if it's hard to imagine a new Park Hill, rising like a phoenix from the ashes of its previous incarnation. 'It is. But it was hard to imagine it when it first went up. All the little streets this replaced. Who'd have thought it?''Will it work? Will it be a success?' 'Yes. I think it is going to be lovely.'Park Hill tells the story of a century. The streets it replaced were home to some of the worst slums in Europe, people living 400 to the acre in houses so tightly packed they barely saw the sun, their only access to water a standpipe in the yard. But they had work. The valley that Park Hill lords it over was home to steel mills, mines and the workshops of the Little Mesters, the craftsmen who made the finest cutlery in the world. Park Hill's fortunes faded as this industry evaporated into thin air; between 1979 and 1989, 53,000 jobs were lost in a city of 200,000. What interests me, though, is what the estate tells us about our relationship with modern buildings. These days, a single structure can come to represent a world view, standing proxy for our aesthetics and our politics. I used to hate it and now I like it. Perhaps you think this tells you a lot about me, but it doesn't really. Or it shouldn't. Park Hill is only one building. This is why we should treat with caution the arguments of commentators like Simon Jenkins, the new chairman of the National Trust, who deride all Brutalist buildings, the 'ideologues' who created them and the intellectuals and theorists who praise them while choosing to live in Georgian terraces. Brenda Hague is no theorist, nor is Ivor Smith an ideologue. 'When Reyner Banham [the architecture critic] called us Brutalists, we didn't know what it meant,' says Smith (his partner Jack Lynn is dead). 'We didn't think we were Brutalists. We thought we were quite nice guys.'When work began on Park Hill in 1957, he and Lynn were young, newly qualified, full of youthful enthusiasm and inspired by the optimism abroad in postwar Britain, however austere. 'The Unité [by le Corbusier, in Marseille] had just been built and it was exciting. But it wasn't an infatuation. We'd also made drawings of John Wood's crescents in Bath.'Returning to Park Hill after 35 years, he thought it looked 'marvellous' from the town. Was there anything he would have done differently? 'The decks. A street has windows at street level. But at Park Hill, conditioned by best value for money, we couldn't have windows on to the pavements.' Does he like Urban Splash's ideas? 'Yes, though if anything I think they could be more daring.'What of those ideas? The company has produced a flash brochure to showcase its £130m refurbishment of Park Hill and it makes for cheering, if occasionally comic, reading. To the naysayers, it points out that the density of the site - 192 people per acre - is well in excess of what the government considers to be a sustainable community and that the flats' original plans are more generous than the boxes favoured by modern developers. So, Park Hill is a 'bruiser'. The company will give it 'romance': oak trees, allotments, a wildflower meadow, crown green bowls, a dance studio, a high street ('a butcher, a baker, a candlestick maker'). The marketeers write of wanting to build a 'yellow brick road' leading to a city sweet shop, Granelli's Spice ('spice' is a Sheffield word for sweets and Bertie Bassett one of its most famous sons). Cutest of all, the company will retain the graffiti that adorns Park Hill 13 storeys up and which once had a starring role in an Arctic Monkeys video: 'I LOVE YOU WILL U MARRY ME'. But none of this would be happening at all were it not for the building itself. English Heritage's controversial decision to confer Grade II* listed status on Park Hill in 1998, for its contribution to British Modernism, now seems prescient and wise. It surely would have been demolished otherwise and lots of identical, red-brick boxes stuck in its place. Of course, refurbishments of modernist buildings are extremely challenging and not all successful. In Islington, residents of Lubetkin's Spa Green Estate are taking legal action over the recent refurbishment of their homes, claiming the work was 'poor at best, and damaging at worst'. But for the time being, the sense of hope and expectation at Park Hill is palpable. After my visit, I catch the bus home to our toasty old terrace and, over supper, I ask my mother, ever so politely, if she has thought about where she will live in her retirement.Good, bad, ugly? Modernist landmarksRoyal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, London, by Denys Lasdun (1964)Most people know Lasdun for the Royal National Theatre, but this is miles better; its elegant sensibility seems to owe more to Frank Lloyd Wright thanle Corbusier.Hunstanton Secondary School, Norfolk, by Alison and Peter Smithson (1949-1954)The building that made them famous: a steel frame with brick and glass panels, and a water tank high on a tower, it's a small-scale homage to Mies van der Rohe.2 Willow Road, Hampstead, London, by Ernö Goldfinger (1938)Goldfinger is best known for his immense Brutalist tower blocks, Trellick Tower in North Kensington, and Balfron Tower in Poplar. Willow Road, his home, is more gentle and notable for its clever use of space and a spiral staircase designed by Ove Arup.Trinity Square car park, Gateshead, by Owen Luder and Rodney Gordon (1969)Also known as the Get Carter car park, after the 1971 film in which it appears. See it now: its demolition is imminent. Gordon also designed the unpopular Tricorn Centre in Portsmouth - demolished in 2004 - and the Michael Faraday Memorial at Elephant and Castle in south London.Apollo Pavilion, Peterlee, by Victor Pasmore (1963-1970)Controversial piece of abstract public art in the Sunny Blunts housing estate. A grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund has recently been awarded for its restoration.Architectureguardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2008 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > REAL ESTATE} - ^^^^MUST SEE! First Month's Rent is FREE!!^^^^ (san mateo) postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!         http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/must-see-first-month-s-rent-is-free-san-mateo-20081129815.htm 2008-11-08T00:43:45Z 2008-11-08T00:43:45Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/off/910154670.html ^^^^MUST SEE! First Month's Rent is FREE!!^^^^ (san mateo) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!        
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]]> {NEWS > BREAKING NEWS} - The 20th Century's Industrious Designer : Photo: Courtesy Library of CongressIndustrial designer Raymond Loewy was a giant in his field. He produced innovative designs in every area from fashion to locomotives. If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you've probably admired a Loewy design. You like logos? Then, you like Loewy. That's enough from us. Take a look for yourself. Left: Loewy poses in a mocked-up designer's office with modern décor, around 1934. At his side is a model of his 1932 Hupmobile, one of the first streamlined automobiles.: Sketch: Courtesy Library of CongressLoewy made this preliminary sketch for the Cornell-Liberty Safety Car, designed for the Cornell Aeronautical Research Laboratory and the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company, in 1956.: Rendering: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed the 1961 Avanti for Studebaker.: Photo: Library of CongressLoewy designed this car for Jaguar ? or maybe a Mr. Bruce Wayne of Gotham City. : Rendering: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy approached the Pennsylvania Railroad in the early 1930s and told railway execs he wanted to design locomotives. Loewy's T-1 steam engine was the Pennsy's last before switching to diesel. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy poses with an early model of his GG1 electric locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1935. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design President John F. Kennedy thought the Air Force's paint scheme for the Boeing 707 Air Force One was too royal: He wanted a look that was appropriate for a president, not a king. On the advice of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House contacted Loewy, who redesigned the exterior livery and the interior cabins. : Sketch: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy played around with 18 design ideas for a new Standard Oil Company logo. Loewy OK'd a version only slightly different from the eventual, final version (next slide). : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design Loewy designed or redesigned well-known logos for scores of corporations. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy modernized the traditional Coke bottle, as well as designed its new larger sizes and "no deposit, no return" bottles and cans. His countertop dispenser for restaurants and soda fountains is an icon of postwar Americana. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy simplified the old Lucky Strike cigarette logo and changed the dark green pack to white. The underlying reasons for the change were the American Tobacco Company's desire to attract more women to the brand with a brighter package, and also that the green ink gave off an odor. However, with the United States entering World War II, the company marketed the move as patriotism, claiming it was made to conserve the metals used make green ink. Advertisements trumpeted the slogan, "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war," and millions of packs were distributed to GIs. American Tobacco didn't forget its plan to market to women, as this ad in Ladies Home Journal makes evident. : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design With a hemline that low, you would guess this outfit has to be prewar or postwar, because the fashion industry conserved fabric with high hemlines during World War II. As a matter of fact, this Loewy modern black ensemble with matching accessories appeared in Vogue in 1939. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy created this quasi-futuristic jukebox for United Music Corp. in 1958. You might have selected from a mixed-bag playlist of 45s like these 1958 hits: "Don't" — Elvis Presley "Great Balls of Fire" — Jerry Lee Lewis "Johnny B. Goode" — Chuck Berry "Good Golly Miss Molly" — Little Richard "La Bamba" — Ritchie Valens "Fever" — Peggy Lee "Poor Little Fool" — Ricky Nelson "Rebel Rouser" — Duane Eddy "All the Way" — Frank Sinatra "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" — The Four Preps "A Wonderful Time Up There" — Pat Boone "Tequila" — The Champs "Catch a Falling Star" — Perry Como "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" — Laurie London "Twilight Time" — The Platters "Witch Doctor" — David Seville "All I Have to Do Is Dream" — The Everly Brothers "Purple People Eater" — Sheb Wooley "Yakety Yak" — The Coasters "Splish Splash" — Bobby Darin "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Blu)" — Dominico Modugno "Rockin Robin" — Bobby Day "Tom Dooley" — The Kingston Trio "To Know Him Is to Love Him" — Teddy Bears "The Chipmunk Song" — The Chipmunks/David Seville "Jingle Bell Rock" — Bobby Helms : Photo: Courtesy Hagley Museum and Library Loewy also created this 1950s Charcoal line china for Rosenthal. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed this classic bedroom set for Mengel Furniture. : Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner/Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy looks over a model of Imperial House in 1959, a planned apartment complex for Manhattan's Upper East Side. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy created this prototype store for a bakery chain in New York in 1937. The white porcelain-covered steel siding and semicircular window endings gives it an air of "Radio Deco.": Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Earth was not room enough for Loewy: He created this model for the living quarters of the NASA Skylab space station. : Study: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy's 1970 study for a NASA space station appears influenced by sets from the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, though it is a much smaller module. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy sifts through his designs for NASA. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Raymond Loewy and his daughter Laurence enjoy a moment in 1982. Laurence was a prize-winning journalist who later headed the Raymond Loewy Foundation and served as CEO of Loewy Design. She died Oct 15, 2008, at age 55. David Hagerman, the COO of Loewy Design says, "Laurence hoped RaymondLoewy.org would help introduce a new generation of design enthusiasts to her father." http://articles.world-of-newave.info/news/breaking-news/the-20th-century-s-industrious-designer-2008119005.htm 2008-11-05T05:00:00Z 2008-11-05T05:00:00Z Wired.Com http://www.wired.com/culture/design/multimedia/2008/11/gallery_loewy The 20th Century's Industrious Designer {new window}   Www.Wired.Com - : Photo: Courtesy Library of CongressIndustrial designer Raymond Loewy was a giant in his field. He produced innovative designs in every area from fashion to locomotives. If you admire the Streamlined Moderne style of Art Deco, you've probably admired a Loewy design. You like logos? Then, you like Loewy. That's enough from us. Take a look for yourself. Left: Loewy poses in a mocked-up designer's office with modern décor, around 1934. At his side is a model of his 1932 Hupmobile, one of the first streamlined automobiles.: Sketch: Courtesy Library of CongressLoewy made this preliminary sketch for the Cornell-Liberty Safety Car, designed for the Cornell Aeronautical Research Laboratory and the Liberty Mutual Life Insurance Company, in 1956.: Rendering: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed the 1961 Avanti for Studebaker.: Photo: Library of CongressLoewy designed this car for Jaguar ? or maybe a Mr. Bruce Wayne of Gotham City. : Rendering: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy approached the Pennsylvania Railroad in the early 1930s and told railway execs he wanted to design locomotives. Loewy's T-1 steam engine was the Pennsy's last before switching to diesel. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy poses with an early model of his GG1 electric locomotive for the Pennsylvania Railroad, 1935. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design President John F. Kennedy thought the Air Force's paint scheme for the Boeing 707 Air Force One was too royal: He wanted a look that was appropriate for a president, not a king. On the advice of first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, the White House contacted Loewy, who redesigned the exterior livery and the interior cabins. : Sketch: Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy played around with 18 design ideas for a new Standard Oil Company logo. Loewy OK'd a version only slightly different from the eventual, final version (next slide). : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design Loewy designed or redesigned well-known logos for scores of corporations. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy modernized the traditional Coke bottle, as well as designed its new larger sizes and "no deposit, no return" bottles and cans. His countertop dispenser for restaurants and soda fountains is an icon of postwar Americana. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy simplified the old Lucky Strike cigarette logo and changed the dark green pack to white. The underlying reasons for the change were the American Tobacco Company's desire to attract more women to the brand with a brighter package, and also that the green ink gave off an odor. However, with the United States entering World War II, the company marketed the move as patriotism, claiming it was made to conserve the metals used make green ink. Advertisements trumpeted the slogan, "Lucky Strike Green has gone to war," and millions of packs were distributed to GIs. American Tobacco didn't forget its plan to market to women, as this ad in Ladies Home Journal makes evident. : Credit: Courtesy of Loewy Design With a hemline that low, you would guess this outfit has to be prewar or postwar, because the fashion industry conserved fabric with high hemlines during World War II. As a matter of fact, this Loewy modern black ensemble with matching accessories appeared in Vogue in 1939. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy created this quasi-futuristic jukebox for United Music Corp. in 1958. You might have selected from a mixed-bag playlist of 45s like these 1958 hits: "Don't" — Elvis Presley "Great Balls of Fire" — Jerry Lee Lewis "Johnny B. Goode" — Chuck Berry "Good Golly Miss Molly" — Little Richard "La Bamba" — Ritchie Valens "Fever" — Peggy Lee "Poor Little Fool" — Ricky Nelson "Rebel Rouser" — Duane Eddy "All the Way" — Frank Sinatra "26 Miles (Santa Catalina)" — The Four Preps "A Wonderful Time Up There" — Pat Boone "Tequila" — The Champs "Catch a Falling Star" — Perry Como "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" — Laurie London "Twilight Time" — The Platters "Witch Doctor" — David Seville "All I Have to Do Is Dream" — The Everly Brothers "Purple People Eater" — Sheb Wooley "Yakety Yak" — The Coasters "Splish Splash" — Bobby Darin "Volare (Nel Blu Dipinto Blu)" — Dominico Modugno "Rockin Robin" — Bobby Day "Tom Dooley" — The Kingston Trio "To Know Him Is to Love Him" — Teddy Bears "The Chipmunk Song" — The Chipmunks/David Seville "Jingle Bell Rock" — Bobby Helms : Photo: Courtesy Hagley Museum and Library Loewy also created this 1950s Charcoal line china for Rosenthal. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy designed this classic bedroom set for Mengel Furniture. : Photo: Gottscho-Schleisner/Courtesy Library of Congress Loewy looks over a model of Imperial House in 1959, a planned apartment complex for Manhattan's Upper East Side. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy DesignLoewy created this prototype store for a bakery chain in New York in 1937. The white porcelain-covered steel siding and semicircular window endings gives it an air of "Radio Deco.": Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Earth was not room enough for Loewy: He created this model for the living quarters of the NASA Skylab space station. : Study: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy's 1970 study for a NASA space station appears influenced by sets from the 1968 film, 2001: A Space Odyssey, though it is a much smaller module. : Credit: Courtesy Loewy Design Loewy sifts through his designs for NASA. : Photo: Courtesy Loewy Design Raymond Loewy and his daughter Laurence enjoy a moment in 1982. Laurence was a prize-winning journalist who later headed the Raymond Loewy Foundation and served as CEO of Loewy Design. She died Oct 15, 2008, at age 55. David Hagerman, the COO of Loewy Design says, "Laurence hoped RaymondLoewy.org would help introduce a new generation of design enthusiasts to her father."
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > REAL ESTATE} - ---GREAT HOME! First Month's Rent is FREE!!--- (san mateo) postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!         Ordinary Licence (Number P523) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Airways Aero Associations Limited) http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/great-home-first-month-s-rent-is-free-san-mateo-2008114795.htm 2008-11-04T03:58:51Z 2008-11-04T03:58:51Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/off/904962983.html ---GREAT HOME! First Month's Rent is FREE!!--- (san mateo) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!         Ordinary Licence (Number P523) that allows flights for the public transport of passengers or for flying instruction as authorised by the licensee (Airways Aero Associations Limited)
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > REAL ESTATE} - ====LOOK HERE! First Month's Rent is FREE!!==== (san mateo) postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!         http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/look-here-first-month-s-rent-is-free-san-mateo-2008111412.htm 2008-11-03T05:04:25Z 2008-11-03T05:04:25Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/off/903574163.html ====LOOK HERE! First Month's Rent is FREE!!==== (san mateo) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!        
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]]> {NORTH AMERICA > REAL ESTATE} - ^GREAT HOME! First Month's Rent is FREE!!^ (san mateo) postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!         http://articles.world-of-newave.info/regional/north-america/united-states/california/metro-areas/san-francisco-bay-area/business-and-economy/real-estate/great-home-first-month-s-rent-is-free-san-mateo-2008118432.htm 2008-11-02T01:46:21Z 2008-11-02T01:46:21Z Sfbay.Craigslist.Org http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/off/902309737.html ^GREAT HOME! First Month's Rent is FREE!!^ (san mateo) {new window}   Sfbay.Craigslist.Org - postPRIME SMALLER OFFICE SPACE  2041 Pioneer CT #2, San Mateo, CaliforniaEqual Opportunity Housing   TWO STORY MULTI-TENANT OFFICE BUILDING.$1.70 / sq ft FIRST FLOOR IS MEDICAL-DENTAL. 2ND FLOOR HAS 4 OFFICES, TWO ARE LEASED, TWO ARE VACANT - 850 SQ FT AND 1200 SQ FT (DIVISIBLE). 1 PARKING SPACE GUARANTEED FOR EACH OFFICE. PLENTY OF ON STREET PARKING AVAILABLE.Ron Denman, PacificCore Group, 650-678-8223Also there is a 24 hour recorded description available at 1-800-530-0076, ext 2002.    Sq Footage2000 Floors2  Parkings1 Uncovered Lot Size0.25 acres FOR MORE INFORMATION Find Out Why This Property Is Such a Great Value Email Me for More Info!        
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