International Committee for the Documentation and Conservation of Buildings, Sites, and Neighborhoods of the Modern Movement
· Shoreline Apartments 1974
· 9.5 acres, downtown Buffalo
· Called for demolition
· Sculptural modernism
· Reduced in scale
· Original scheme: monumental, terraced, prefabricated housing structures
· Alternative e to high-rise dwelling
· Meant to recall the complexity and intimacy of old European settlements
· Today: scaled down, shed roofs, ribbed or corduroy concrete exteriors, projecting balconies and enclosed garden courts, spatial radicalism with experiments in human-scaled, low-rise, high-density housing developments
· First scheme was in a 1970 Museum of Modern Art exhibition entitled Work in Progress
· Complexity, sculptural details, effects of scale, texture
· Architecture, besides being technology, sociology and moral philosophy must finally produce works of art
· Norstar Development, owned since 2005
· Crime, disrepair, startling vacancy rates
· Norstar presented plans to City of Buffalo to demolish 5 of the currently vacant Rudolph buildings, with 8 suburban style affordable residential townhouses with 48 units
· 2,400,000 from state, $8,800,000 total cost
· Private balconies and garden courts are desirable features
· The Willert Part Courts a ten two and three stock brick multiple dwelling complex is owned by the Buffalo Municipal Housing Authority who has announced plans to demolish the entire complex
· The design was based on the functional, flat-roofed blocks similar to German public housing projects and is ornamented with a series of cast relief sculptures on the theme of labor and family life
· Both of these were in MOMA’s Work in Progress and guidebook, Guide to Modern Architecture of the Northeast States
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