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When the city of La Center needed to remove a dilapidated house on city property, they chose to deconstruct, rather than demolish.
La Center recently purchased a lot with a vacated house slated for removal and has contracted with DeConstruction Services for this project. Says Public Works Director, Jeff Sarvis, “The use of deconstruction to remove houses is another step toward reducing waste, promoting reuse and recycling, and keeping it out of our landfills, which is an essential component of sustainable, green building.”
Working with DeConstruction Services—a project of the non-profit organization The ReBuilding Center—La Center will keep 6000 square feet of reusable building materials from the landfill. The environmental savings of deconstruction are the equivalent of preserving 20 mature trees in the forest, taking 1.7 cars off the road in the reduction of greenhouse gas, and saving 1440 gallons of clean drinking water.
For more information:
email: info@rebuildingcenter.org
DeConstruction Services: www.deconstructionservices.org
City of La Center: www.ci.lacenter.wa.us
Photo Credit:: Alice Peters, City of La Center. Okay for media use and non-commercial use with attribution.
Building collapse after a hi-speed car chase in which the criminal crashed into the building the vehicle on the left fell from an upper floor. - downtown Kansas City
Nikon FE2
Nikkor Pancake 50mm f/1.8
Kodak TriX 400
A very happy afternoon spent wandering around the West End of London with a Leica M240 and 35/1.4 FLE on loan from the lovely folks at Leica Mayfair.
1.) Most times you hear someone say, "Let's deconstruct this idea..." they are using the term inaccurately.
2.) Deconstruction is not where you pull things apart, break them down into small pieces, or show that there is no meaning.
3.) Deconstruction is [this is a crude explanation] a process by which one analyses a text using its own concepts and language to show the ways in which its arguments and claims invert themselves.
4.) It is a process of inquiry, not a demolition job.
Not all torn down buildings look the same.
I made a pattern from one of my daughter's t-shirts and just started cutting up one of mine. blogged at mayamade.blogspot.com/
By Sherrie Thai of ShaireProductions. Feel free to download and use these as a background for commercial or noncommercial projects. If you decide to use them, please let me know how it goes by sending a link or an image. Enjoy!
You don't readily notice it from this angle, but the door was 'way off center, 4' from one side and 2' from the other, which would have interfered with things I want to do on the side that was only 2'.
I didn't expect to see another deconstruction as I pased this building on this day. (I actually expected it to start later this year).
Some friends of mine live right on the other side of the street and they have a webcam set up. Click this link to see it (on the bottom of the page)
This was taken with my Canon Powershot S95.
Beginning the rebuild...taking off the already-warped 1/4" plywood to replace it with something a bit more durable.
Might be a term associated with philosophy and literature, thanks to Jacques Derrida, but when it comes to deconstruction of dog toys, I think Rosie's one of the leaders in the field.
Here's one of her proudest achievements - taking apart a rubber 'ball' made up of many rings. The manufacturer's mistake? leaving the joins even slightly accessible.