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Saving an old, dilapidated building from the wrecking ball can be challenging - especially if you are not its owner and if local leaders, blinded by opportunistic developers, fail to comprehend its significance.  Even if you succeed in thwarting its demolition, there is always the tricky issue of how to make the building’s preservation more [...]

Stumbling upon this beer (Busch, thank you) bottle house sure adds a bit of perspective to ongoing efforts at sustainable and adaptive-reuse design.  It was built in 1905 by a fellow named Tom Kelly in Ryolite, Nevada (for which a mining boom went bust and all life left in 1920).  Faced with the area’s scarcity [...]