RTP-area local music and culture

[James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com>]

This all reminds me of a segment on Modern Marvels
about how the dutch are dealing with European flood
issues.  Apparently Holland has offered up several low
lying villages as floodwater retaining lakes.  So in
order to avoid regular destruction of homes and
businesses, the dutch are designing these really
interesting looking houses that are designed to float
as waters rise.

http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/spiegel/0,1518,377050,00.html

http://www.ecoboot.nl/artikelen/floating_houses.php



--- rick sawyer <rickbang AT gmail.com> wrote:

> > really slick css. so much of modernist
> construction
> > seemed tied up in whatever was the latest material
> of
> > the time, often appropriated from some other
> industry
> > (the toy industry, apparently).
> 
> *snerk.*
> 
> i think the world is
> > still waiting for a truly modern architecture.
> that
> > is, one which serves *and pleases* the masses
> rather
> > than rich people and foolhardy yuppies.
> 
> there is an International Style house on Dacian (or
> Markham?) Avenue
> in Trinity Park, Durham that is a treat to see
> nestled among its late
> 19th century (and Revival) neighbors.  it seems to
> be holding up
> pretty well (though i've never been inside).
> 
> rick.
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors
> alt.music.chapel-hill --
> http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
> 



        
                
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