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Who Needs Windows?

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Design
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...nd humidity fluctuations are bad for old documents. And did we mention the building leaks? This brutalist building, on the national register, has to stay. Officials are pondering new uses for this hot, leaky and windowless monolith. Bank of America Building 101 S. Marengo Ave. Pasadena You just have to love the Google street view of this mid-century relic. It doesn’t get more basic than this–a stone cube for bank workers. A conspiracy theory circu...

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I Made a Mallet

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...ut a higher power that can only be found in the form of a shop class. So I build a mallet in the course of an entertaining three week class at Community Woodshop. Even their safety orientation was full of useful information and hands-on learning. The mallet class was a great way to pick up skills involving measurement, sharpening, the use of hand tools and elementary joinery (mortise and tenon). Because it was just a mallet I didn’t feel attached...

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Bee Trellis

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Animals, Bees
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...rellis to surround the hive boxes that reside next to her shed. In a small urban yard a trellis around your bees will keep everyone happy. Bees naturally tend to fly upwards after leaving the hive but the addition of a fence keeps the few sideways stragglers from negative canine and homo sapiens interactions. As usual, the design process around Root Simple begins with the realization that our 1920s house looks best when surrounded by fuddy-duddy l...

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Chicken Coop Deconstructed

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Animals, Chickens
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...n. Dust and spiderwebs flew everywhere. They practically had to be dragged back to the classroom at the end of the period because they were having so much fun they didn’t want to stop. The old chicken coop is now stripped down to the studs. As soon as we can get the supplies, we will start rebuilding. The students will get some real hands on construction lessons and get to build it themselves. Once the paint drys the school will be ready for a big...

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Weekend Linkages: Smoking Chickens

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Saturday Linkages
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...piece Cosmic House (Thanks for the link Nic!) One Work: Gelatin’s The B-Thing Meet Thatcher Wine: the ‘celebrity bibliophile’ you didn’t know you needed The Last Glimpses of California’s Vanishing Hippie Utopias (Thanks Daniel for the link!) How To Build Your Own Trippy Meditation Pod Insects are vanishing from our planet at an alarming rate. But there are ways to help them Improving tiny urban greenspaces causes huge boosts in insect life If Holl...

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