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Metro Jacksonville’s article on Jacksonville’s own seemingly abandoned urban ruin, Hogan’s Creek, reminded us of the Artificial Owl website. Artificial Owl is essentially an online catalog of some of the greatest abandoned man-made structures found …
Read the full story »For UFP # 8 we’ve traveled back south into the borders of Downtown Jacksonville, to Ocean Street. Anyone coming over the Main Street bridge into downtown should know exactly where this building is (hint: as your coming off the bridge, look right.) The existing building at 11 ocean shares some similarities to a previous UFP, #2 (118 Main), both are two story brick structures with large openings in the facade and only have an adjoining building to one side. Hopefully 11 Ocean won’t share one aspect of 118 Main: being torn down in less than 3 weeks after being posted as an Urban Facelift Project.
The existing building and surroundings:
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Also, we have more submissions from our first two previous contributors: David Welch and Jeremiah Russell.
The first one comes from David Welch. David’s reimagined the building at 803 Price Street as a southwestern themed restaurant, Pueblo’s. We loved the graphic treatment that David added to the facade, and think it was a great touch:
The building and existing surroundings:
the rendering:
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Jeremiah Russell picked a fantastic canvas with the old Ford Assembly Plant at 1901 Hill Street and we think his idea of turning the structure into raw loft spaces is a great idea:
The building and surroundings:
The rendering:
The slideshow:
We promise we will be getting back to some non-Springfield facelifts soon, but couldn’t resist doing an infill on the same block of past UFP #3 (1632-1636 N Main Street). Obviously, rehabilitating existing buildings …
When we first started doing the Urban Facelift Project, our hope was that we would eventually get submissions from individuals outside of content design group. Below are the first two independent submissions we have received, …
The Urban Facelift Project #6 is actually our first commissioned Facelift Project. A member of the Springfield community put a previous UFP, #3 (1632-1636 Main Street) in front of the owner of 1300 Main Street …
We began photographing buildings for the Urban Facelift Project in late April. All of the buildings that we chose for the first group of studies had obviously been allowed to be in a state …
We’ve finally gotten around to #5, at 937 main. We actually don’t have too much information about the building other than it’s actually part of the larger parcel, Claude Nolan Cadillac Building, but it actually …
We’re walking out the door headed to Atlanta for this weekend’s modern home tour, hosted by Modern Atlanta. Looking forward to seeing what’s new in residential modern design in Atlanta, and counting the years until …
We’re excited to have a feature article explaining what the Urban Facelift Project is running over on metrojacksonville.com. We’ve been a fan since they started and have the same stance on a majority of the …
Revisiting UFP #2, this time we’re focusing on the empty lot between the old Lerner Shop and 5 W Forsyth. We love the idea of working with deep, thin linear infill spaces because of the …
We’ve got a two for one special for the third Urban Facelift Project. We’ve gone outside of the boundary of the immediate downtown area and ventured north into Springfield. We’re actually going to focus quite …
You may have seen that last week we decided to launch the Urban Facelift Project. Our hope with this project is that people will start looking at the potential of what we have in downtown …
Metro Jacksonville’s article on Jacksonville’s own seemingly abandoned urban ruin, Hogan’s Creek, reminded us of the Artificial Owl website. Artificial Owl is essentially an online catalog of some of the greatest abandoned man-made structures found …
Dieter Rams (born May 20, 1932 in Wiesbaden) is a German industrial designer closely associated with the consumer products company Braun and the Functionalist school of industrial design.
Rams studied architecture at the Werkkunstschule Wiesbaden as …
The first new FiCoMo meeting has been set for this Friday, March 6th. We’ll be meeting at 6:30 at nestliving, 1020 park street in 5 Points. This first meeting will essentially be a meet and …
For UFP # 8 we’ve traveled back south into the borders of Downtown Jacksonville, to Ocean Street. Anyone coming over the Main Street bridge into downtown should know exactly where this building is (hint: as …
