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Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

Architecture firm Snøhetta has been announced as the winner of a competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.

The New York- and Oslo-based firm was chosen from a shortlist containing US firm Studio Gang and Danish studio Henning Larsen to design the library.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will have a curved roof

Snøhetta's winning design is topped with a huge curved roof designed to act as an extension of the site in North Dakota city Medora, which is surrounded by Badlands, abuts Theodore Roosevelt National Park and has views of the Elkhorn Ranch.

Designed for the northeast edge of the butte, the building will be linked to a curved pathway that will lead visitors around the site, connecting to the Maah Daah Hey Trail and additional pavilions.

The building is intended to blend with the landscape

"When designing a new project, we think about how we can more give to the site or community more than is initially asked of us," said Craig Dykers. "We integrated the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library into the landscape of the North Dakota Badlands."

According to Snøhetta, the building will be built with "natural and renewable" materials and use energy systems that will set a "new standard for sustainable design in the region".

Visuals showing large expanses of wood and glass.

A meandering path leads around the site

Snøhetta was commended for drawing on, and highlighting, the rough terrain of the Badlands, as well as considering the conservation policies Roosevelt worked on while serving as president of the United States from 1901 to 1909.

"One of Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring legacies is conservation and our national parks," said Theodore Roosevelt V, a great-great-grandson and namesake of the 26th president.

"This will be the only presidential library alongside a national park and the only national park alongside a presidential library. It will invite visitors to see and experience the very cradle of conservation. That is why this location in North Dakota is perfect for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library."

The building will be built with "natural and renewable" materials

The project is also intended to extend beyond its site, including connections to Little Missouri River, a former military camp called the Cantonment, and the original train depot in where Roosevelt first arrived in the area. There would also be a parking option near these external sites for visitors to catch an electric caravan to the site.

Studio Gang, Henning Larsen and Snøhetta were shortlisted for the project from 12 practices that applied to the Request for Qualifications (RFQ) that the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation made public in April to find a suitable architect for the project. The firm intends to continue to develop the design.

An outdoor deck will offer views of surroundings

"We still have much to learn about President Roosevelt, and we're looking forward to working with the Medora community and the broader project team to translate this knowledge into an immersive place to learn about TR's life and legacy," Dykers added.

Once completed it will join the 13 presidential libraries in the US that serve as archives and museums illustrating the life and work of each president since Herbert Hoover, who was in office from 1929-1933.

They were each built in their president's home state, with the most recent library completed for George W Bush in Dallas, Texas.

Pavilions will be integrated into the landscape

Architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien are designing the 14th presidential library for Barack Obama, who ended his term in 2017. They were selected for the project in June 2016 from a list that included Snøhetta, Renzo Piano and David Adjaye.

Called the Barack Obama Presidential Center, the project has encountered controversy because of its siting in the historic Jackson Park, which was designed in 1871 by Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.

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dominarayne · 4 years

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Playlist for writing Sad/ Emotional/ death scenes. Part 1.

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Writing an emotional scene can be hard for so many reasons. Fear of coming out cheesy or not impactful enough, etc...

I believe that if the writer isn't in the same state of emotion their characters are it can be a problem. personally I always say that if the sad moment don't move the writer who created the characters, then we can't blame others for not caring about the impactful scene.

That's why I always listen to music while writing to set me in the mood. So I figured I might as well sharing them with you ;)

These are the musics that inspired me and I listen to the constantly on daily basis, even when reading books. Hope you like them and be sure to share it with others!

Playlist Vol 1 :

1_ And Just Like That by Abel Korzeniowski.

2_ 1917 by Thomas Newman.

3_ A Bit Of Tin by Thomas Newman.

4_ A Blessing by Max Ritcher.

5_ A False Freedom (Markus) by John Paesano.

6_ Lily's Theme by Alexandre Desplat

7_ A Lannister Always Pays His Debts by Ramin Djawadi.

8_ A Princess by Javier Navarrete.

9_ A Sparrow Alighted Upon Our Shoulder by Johann Johannsson, Air Lyndhurst String Orchestra, Anthony Weeden.

10_ Long, long time ago by Javier Navarrette.

11_ Memories by Ramin Djawadi

12_ Memories of Mother by Bear McCreary (I CAN LISTEN TO IT ON REPEAT 😭💔)

13_ Absence by Slow Meadow.

14_ Addicted To A Certain Lifestyle by David Arnold.

15_ All Gone (Alone) by Gustavo Santaolalla.

16_ All Gone (No Escape) by Gustavo Santaolalla.

17_ All Of My Birds by Jessica Curry.

18_ Mufasa Dies by Hans Zimmer (I mean we all cried with this one at some point.)

19_ Detroit Becomes Human : Intro Piano Themed.

20_ Alone We Have No Future by Ludvig Forssell.

21_ Anakin's Betrayal by John Williams.

22_ Angel's Egg Main Theme Song by Yoshihiro Kanno.

23_ Arbenita (11 years) Max Ritcher (OMG THE UGLY CRIES I HAD WITH THIS ONE WHILE READING SAD BOOKS)

24_ Ashes by Bear McCreary.

25_ Non-Eternal by Max Ritcher. ( this was ins 23:49 minutes and omg it gets me into atmosphere of the scene I am writing SO WELL.)

26_ Atonement by Ramin Djawadi.

27_ Back Hand Of God by Abel Korzeniowski.

28_ Before The Old Gods by Ramin Djawadi.

29_ Beginning Of The End Movement I by The Newton Brothers.

30_ Beyond The North Wind by Ferr.

31_ Billy's Theme by Howard Shore (OMG YOU GUYS THIS MOVIE (The Departed) KILLED ME)

32_ Bloodlines by Austin Wintory.

33_ Boat To Africa by Abel Korzeniowski.

34_ Break The Wheel by Ramin Djawadi.

35_ Broken by Òlafur Arnalds.

36_ Brooklyn Faces by Abel Korzeniowski.

37_ My Favorite by Ramin Djawadi.

38_ Never Goodbye by Max Ritcher, London Voices.

39_ Circular As Our Way by Hammock.

40_ Closer Than Sisters by Abel Korzeniowski.

41_ Come Back To Us by Thomas Newman.

42_ Constellation 1 by Max Ritcher.

43_ Contingency Statement by Justin Hurwitz.

44_ Dark Wings, Dark Words by Ramin Djawadi.

45_ No Ring by Martin Phipps.

46_ Death Is Now A Welcome Guest by Austin Wintory.

47_ Death Of The First Born by Hans Zimmer.

48_ Deerfest by Petri Alanko.

49_ Departure by Petri Alanko (Let me tell you, first time I listened to this, I was in a good mood. By the end of it I was on the verge of tears)

50_ Departure (Lullaby) by Max Ritcher.

51_ Departure (Reflection) by Max Ritcher.

52_ District 8 Hospital by James Newton Howard.

53_ Do They Dream by Ramin Djawadi.

54_ Dumbledore's Farewell by Nicolas Hooper.

55_ Edith's Theme by Fernando Velázquez.

56_ Elegy For Dunkirk by Dario Marianelli.

57_ Everyone Likes Orange by Abel Korzeniowski.

58_ Ezio's Family by Jesper Kyd (This can also fit in my Romance Playlist. THE FEELS! THIS GAME WAS MY LIFE.)

59_ Family by Austin Wintory.

60_ Family Affairs (Extended) by Alan Silvestri, Mark Graham, Jonathan Bartz, Adam Olmsted.

61_ Farwell To Dobby by John Williams.

62_ Finale by Fernando Velázquez.

63_ Fly On Foot (Kara) by Philip Sheppard.

64_ For Cersei by Ramin Djawadi.

65_ For The Damaged Coda by Blonde Redhead.

66_ For Those We Loved by Austin Wintory.

67_ Forbidden Love by Adam Taylor.

68_ Forgive Me by Ramin Djawadi.

69_ Four Marks by Sonya Belousova.

70_ Funeral Canticle by The Academy Of Ancient Music (Oh boy, this is some good shit to make you cry while writing. Imagine writing your most beloved character's death and funeral with this...)

71_ Give Thanks by Martin Phipps.

72_ Goodbye Brother by Ramin Djawadi (I MEAN... HOW COULD I NOT INCLUDE THIS. This music can commit murder I swear. )

73_ Guardian Angels by Abel Korzeniowski.

74_ He's One Of The Clean One by Sonya Belousova.

75_ Heir To Winterfell by Ramin Djawadi.

76_ Help Me Faith (Reinterpretation) by Hammock (This is a masterpiece, both versions are💔)

77_ Hodor (Bonus Track) Ramin Djawadi

78_ Home by Ramin Djawadi.

79_ Hymn - Mvmt 1: Prelude by Nicolas Britell (Honestly I would just say go listen to all of The King's OST Album, it's a masterpiece.)

80_ Hymn - Mvmt 2: Lament by Nicolas Britell.

81_ Hymn - Mvmt 3: Elegy (This one is heartbreakingly beautiful 💔)

82_ I Am Free by Rael Jonas.

83_ I Dreamt I Was Old by Ramin Djawadi.

84_ I Had No One by David Arnold.

85_ I Need You By My Side (Bonus Track) by Ramin Djawadi.

86_ I Oughta Be Getting Home/ Plugs Out by Justin Hurwitz.

87_ I Was Never Going To Go To Africa by Abel Korzeniowski.

88_ I Will Find You by Audiomachine.

89_ I'm Sorry For Today by Ramin Djawadi.

90_ Líður (Chernobyl Version) by Hildur Guðnadóttir.

91_ Infra 8 by Max Ritcher.

92_ Into The Fire by Ramin Djawadi.

93_ It Is True by Martin Phipps.

94_ Jenny Of Oldstones by Ramin Djawadi.

95_ Joan Clayton by Abel Korzeniowski.

96_ Journey 4 by Max Ritcher.

97_ Kara Main Theme (Kara) by Philip Shepherd. (I LOVE THIS SO MUCH. Also the game is just *Chef's Kiss* )

98_ Kingsglaive Final Fantasy XV by John R. Graham.

99_ Let It End by Abel Korzeniowski.

100_ Let Me Die by Abel Korzeniowski.

I've made a playlist on YouTube so everyone would be able to use it. There will be another post to continue introducing new tracks if you guys loved this one. so make sure to give me your feedbacks! It's really encouraging <3

Anyway, enjoy killing or making your OC's life miserable =) Happy writing my friends!

#writing #soundtracks #sad scenes #wip #novel #books #music #writing tips #writers #writing prompt #writing community #OST

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How Crenshaw became black LA’s main street

Crenshaw Boulevard starts in the middle of bustling, concrete Los Angeles at Wilshire Boulevard and ends in the untamed, unearthly natural beauty of the Palos Verdes Peninsula, a little more than 23 miles away. In between, the heartbeat of historically black Los Angeles pulses at such landmarks as Dulan’s Soul Food, the Los Angeles Sentinel, West Angeles Church, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, and the Paul R. Williams-designed Angelus Funeral Home, where the bodies of director John Singleton and rapper and activist Nipsey Hussle were recently prepared.

At Crenshaw and 50th is the epic Great Wall of Crenshaw, a series of murals depicting black Americans’ contributions to history, created by the street art collective Rocking the Nation in 2000.

“Crenshaw Boulevard is the main street of black LA. Has been, still is, and hopefully always will be,” says Nina Revoyr, activist and author of the acclaimed 2003 novel Southland. “It is a boulevard of both aspiration and disappointments.”

The first section of Crenshaw Boulevard sprang out of the calculated aspirations of Missouri-born developer George L. Crenshaw. In the early 1900s, he began to develop the grand neighborhood of Lafayette Square in the Mid-City section of Los Angeles, then undeveloped ranch land. He decided to name one of the main streets running alongside the development after himself. “In those days, you just went down to City Hall and signed a little slip and that was it,” his grandson Charles Crenshaw told the Los Angeles Times in 2003.

In 1918, a new dirt street, Angeles Mesa Drive, was finished, linking up to Crenshaw Boulevard:

Angeles Mesa Drive, the new short cut route between southwest Los Angeles and the city-to-sea boulevards, is now open to the motoring public from Slauson Avenue to West Adams Street. The new highway shortens by miles the traveling distance between Hyde Park Inglewood, and Redondo districts to the south and southwest of Los Angeles and the west beaches, Hollywood and the San Fernando Valley.

During the building boom of the 1920s, Angeles Mesa Drive gained in importance, as it became the suburban site of new sprawling planned communities. “The paving of Angeles Mesa Drive, is part of a comprehensive plan for the creation of another north-and-south artery beginning at Wilshire Blvd. and extending to the paved county highway a mile south of Adams Street,” the Los Angeles Times reported in 1924. “First steps for the widening of Crenshaw Blvd, of which the Angeles Mesa Drive is a southerly continuance have already been taken.”

In 1925, the Los Angeles Investment Company opened tracts for the upper-class neighborhood of View Park, on the slopes of Baldwin Hills alongside Angeles Mesa Drive. In 1927, the Walter H. Leimert Company hired the pedigreed firm of Olmsted and Olmsted to lay out its planned self-sustaining “community of tomorrow” on 600 acres skirting the boulevard.

Called Leimert Park, this idyllic community featured tree lined streets of elegant homes and apartments designed by architects including Richard Neutra and Sumner Spaulding. In 1932, the Stiles O. Clements-designed Leimert Theater opened in the community’s commercial center. In 1929, Crenshaw Boulevard and Angeles Mesa Drive were finally coalesced into one megastreet.

The Angelus Funeral Home is one stand-out building on Crenshaw, and it was designed by architect Paul R. Williams. It’s also where the bodies of Nipsey Hussle and John Singleton were served.

Due to redlining and racially restrictive housing covenants that kept non-whites from living in all but a few areas in LA, the neighborhoods and businesses along what came to be known as “the ’Shaw” were predominantly populated by middle and upper-class white residents. But after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the racist covenants in 1948, large numbers of successful Japanese Americans began to move into the neighborhoods along Crenshaw. Soon many more black families bought homes in the area as well.

This was an era of great promise for black Angelenos, says longtime Leimert Park resident Lynetta McElroy. “When you talk to some of the older people who came from different areas they said something about Los Angeles blacks was different than anywhere else,” McElroy says. “They had this look. They had fine cars, fine clothes, they had their own clubs. Black culture was rich.”

The addition of these two rich cultures would usher in a golden age of multicultural community on Crenshaw Boulevard. McElroy, who is of African American and Jewish descent, recalls her mother taking her to the annual Japanese-American celebration of Nisei Week in Crenshaw Square. “You would have Japanese dancing and music, food and a carnival,” she says. “You had all the cultures just right here. The ladies were in kimonos, and they were dancing and singing, and they invited the onlookers to learn the dances and sing along.”

McElroy and her African American and Japanese American friends at Crenshaw High also frequented the legendary Holiday Bowl. Perhaps no establishment exemplified the Crenshaw District’s diversity more than this bowling alley and coffee shop at the intersection of 37th and Crenshaw. Designed in the Googie Style by the architect Helen Liu Fong for the firm Armet and Davis, the bowl was opened in 1948 by four Japanese investors. (It was demolished in 2003.) According to KCET’s Ryan Reft:

Early on many of the bowling teams consisted of local Japanese farmers, grocers, and merchants, all of whom competed in divisions that suited their profession: the Gardener’s League, the Produce League, and the Floral League, to name a few. When the area began absorbing greater numbers of African Americans… the teams changed as well. “[M]y team has one black, one Italian, another Japanese, and Korean Sponsor,” Floral League member Dorothy Tanabe told the Los Angeles Times.

Throughout the decades, the Holiday Bowl would continue to be what one longtime employee referred to as a “United Nations.” A high school aged McElroy and her girlfriends spent an intense six weeks at the hangout learning to bowl, determined to earn a letter for their Crenshaw High jackets (she earned it—and still has it today). During the 1970s and ’80s, “that was the go to spot,” says Gina Fields, who grew up all along Crenshaw and lives today in Leimert Park. “It was definitely a cultural hub.”

Revoyr, who is of Japanese American descent, remembers her very first trip to the bowl. “Seeing African American and Japanese American folks of my grandparents age all hanging out together in a coffee shop in such a way that it became clear that these were friendships that existed for decades. That was so beautiful to me,” she says. “Going into the Holiday Bowl and seeing Japanese food and Southern food on the same menu, I just loved that.”

The “Great Wall of Crenshaw” is an important mural that spans 800 feet and incorporates images and icons from black history across the ages.

So important was the Holiday Bowl to the community that during the LA Uprising in the summer of 1992, Rodney King joined with other locals to protect the business from looters, telling potential troublemakers that the bowl was “our place.”

“When I think about Crenshaw—in particular, when I think about a place like the Holiday Bowl, and that whole strip right there, it represents the best version of a polyglot LA—people who are both very, very clear and very proud of who they are as individuals and families, but also who can feel part of a larger collective whole in a way that’s cross racial,” Revoyr says.

The Japanese American influence can still be seen in the bonsai trees and plantings in the yards of the small Mediterranean and Spanish style homes off Crenshaw. However, by the late 1960s, many of the communities surrounding Crenshaw Boulevard, from wealthy View Park, Lafayette Square, and Baldwin Hills to working-class Inglewood, had become mainly associated with black Angelenos.

Black-owned businesses flourished, while farther down the ’Shaw in Hawthorne, aerospace companies offered good employment for many local residents. Glass-plated, modernist car dealerships opened up and down Crenshaw Bouelvard, providing more employment for South LA residents.

Every year, the Martin Luther King Day Parade would travel down Crenshaw Boulevard (it now goes through King Boulevard), and the community would come out to watch. “I remember playing my flute in the band as the Audubon Elementry School band walked down Crenshaw Boulevard,” Fields says. “Later I became a naval cadet and marched with the Youth Naval Cadet when I was 15, and we got all dressed up in our dress uniforms, and it was just such a proud feeling to be able to march... down Crenshaw Boulevard with the crowd cheering.”

Leimert Park became an artistic mecca for artists, artisans, and venues, such as the famed blues club Babe’s & Ricky’s Inn. Its small village green just off Crenshaw Boulevard became a community gathering place for festivals, jazz concerts, and press conferences. At the hip cave-like musical venue Maverick’s Flat, acts like the Ike and Tina Turner Review, The Temptations, Billy Preston, and Parliament-Funkadelic played packed shows while locals and celebrities like Marlon Brando, Sonny Liston, Steve McQueen, and Muhammad Ali danced along.

Many fly dancers at Maverick’s Flat would appear on Soul Train, which debuted in 1970, and transported South LA cool across the country. Host Don Cornelius would also source telegenic and talented dancers from local Crenshaw area high schools. Musician Patrice Rushen recalled in the LA Times hanging out at a local park only to be approached by none other than Cornelius himself. “Anybody who wants to go, we’ll have buses and take you to the TV studio,” he told the high schoolers. “All you’ve got to do is come on the show and dance.”

Young men talk to three young women in their car at the usual gathering spot along Crenshaw Blvd on a Sunday afternoon in 1996.

Photo by Gary Friedman/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

It was also during this same period, while the Soul Train bus picked up dancers on the ’Shaw, that young men and women began cruising Crenshaw Boulevard on Sunday nights, showing off their tricked lowriders and speaker systems. By the 1980s, cruising had become a weekly ritual on the ’Shaw. “I would come home from Berkeley for the summer and Crenshaw Boulevard was just lively!” Fields says. “You’d see all these low riders, decked out cars, parked in front of the Wienerschnitzel. And we’d hang out. And my mom was like ‘You know you’re not over there hanging out on Crenshaw!’ ‘No Mom.’ And my sister and I were out there—hanging out with all the lowrider cars. It was just such a fun neighborhood.”

Cruising reached its peak in the early 1990s, when more than a thousand cars would jam Crenshaw Boulevard, from Jefferson Boulevard to Florence Avenue. Faced with mounting pressure by frustrated Crenshaw Boulevard business owners and civic leaders, in 1994 the LAPD began to barricade 3.5 miles of Crenshaw, from Adams to 78th street, every Sunday night. But this and other deterrents had little effect, with cruisers simply going farther south on Crenshaw or taking side streets. In April 1995, a popular Banning High football player named Dupree Taye was shot and killed in a random act of violence when the red Ford Thunderbird he was cruising in got a flat tire.

Violence would become an epidemic during the late 1980s and early ’90s, as gangs and drugs and social, educational, and economic inequities wreaked havoc on many communities in South Los Angeles.

During this time period, Crenshaw Boulevard would become legendary in popular culture, with films such as Singleton’s Boyz in the Hood, and artists from the area including Eazy-E, Ice-T, Ice Cube, and Dr. Dre rapping about the hard realities that faced many South LA youth. There also more lighthearted homegrown acts like Skee-Lo, who penned an ode to Sunday night cruising on the 1995 track “Crenshaw”:

Who me I’m Skee, I rap and produce

Pull over I wanna know you and my crew wants to know your crew

Now how them cheeks fit in the seat of that Jeep

See this is type of freak that could be cool for me

I like her style she like my style I make her smile she think I’m funny

Won’t front it be pump rollin Crenshaw on Sunday

After the LA Uprising, some middle class black Angelenos left South LA for safer areas in the city. Throughout the ’90s and 2000s, Latinos began to arrive in greater numbers, and some of the boulevard’s historically black-owned businesses began to close. Years of disinvestment in resources and infrastructure by the city and state also took their toll.

The “Great Wall of Crenshaw” is an important mural that spans 800 feet and incorporates images and icons from black history across the ages.

In 2008, the construction of the 8.5-mile Crenshaw/LAX light rail line was announced by Metro. Although a fight to add a stop at Leimert Park, called by Singleton “the black Greenwich Village,” was successful, the plan deeply polarized communities along Crenshaw Boulevard. This and the encroaching gentrification of areas like Leimert Park led to the formation of Destination Crenshaw, a planned 1.3-mile cultural district spanning Crenshaw Boulevard from 48 to 60th streets.

“Destination Crenshaw came about as a result of conversations related to the building of the Crenshaw/LAX Metro line and the controversy in the community that remains to this day about the portion between Hyde Park and Leimert Park being built at grade,” says Los Angeles City Councilmember Marqueece Harris-Dawson, who grew up visiting his grandfather at his real estate operations on Crenshaw Boulevard. “Folks were very, very upset. Folks were like, ‘this is the African American community’s major street.’ In no other major street in Southern California does Metro build rail at grade.”

Building at grade would cause major disruption on the street, splitting it in two and making it less a walkable main street and more like a drive-though thoroughfare. Community and civic leaders decided to turn what they saw as an insult into an opportunity. “Folks came up with the idea of an open-air people’s museum,” Harris-Dawson says. “The African American history of Los Angeles is extremely rich—as rich as any city in the country. And that there ought to be a place, like we have Chinatown, like we have the Fairfax district, like we have Little Tokyo, like we have San Pedro... that calls out the contributions of African Americans building this region.”

Targeted to be completed in spring 2020, Destination Crenshaw will include 100 permanent art installations extolling the history and culture of black Angelenos. The Leimert Theater is being fully restored and modernized, and there are plans for a public amphitheater and 10 new parks and miniparks.

The architecture firm of Perkins and Will will oversee the design and construction. Landscape design will be provided by Studio-MLA. “What we hope is that we build a cultural hub and that people can actually consume African American culture in these locations,” Harris-Dawson says. New housing is being built along the under-construction Crenshaw/LAX line, and efforts to spruce up the boulevard can be seen all around, including in the planned restoration of the Great Wall of Crenshaw.

“With Destination Crenshaw, our working tagline was ‘unapologetically black,’” says Ron Finley, an artist and community activist known as the Gangsta Gardener. “There’s nothing in Los Angeles that celebrates black Los Angeles. Destination Crenshaw is going to be just that. It is going to be proudly, historically black—it’s going to be super black.”

Another community partner involved in Destination Crenshaw was the rapper, philanthropist, and civic leader Nipsey Hussle. On March 31, Hussle was murdered outside his Marathon Clothing Store on Slauson Avenue, just off Crenshaw. His death devastated both the old and young in South LA.

Mural of Nipsey Hussle on the corner of Crenshaw and Slauson.

“He was a guy who saw beauty in a place that other people just dismissed as unworthy and desolate and as less than,” Revoyr says. “And I think that in elevating the Crenshaw area with his obvious love and respect, he made the young people who live there feel that they were respected.”

But those leading Destination Crenshaw are determined Hussle’s innovative work and ideas will live on. “He had this project and this program called ‘All Money In,’” Harris-Dawson says. “Our community creates value, especially in the realm of culture. Except the community doesn’t benefit from the creation of that value, and so if young people in South LA make a sneaker popular or a t-shirt popular, you then have to go to Melrose to buy the t-shirt!”

Through Destination Crenshaw and other programs, the councilmember aims to bring money and foot traffic onto Crenshaw Boulevard, creating value that stays within South Los Angeles. “I think that there’s great potential with the Metro line,” Revoyr says. “More people are going to be coming through Crenshaw hopefully with the line opening… and the Destination Crenshaw project should be a draw.”

But there are concerns. “There is understandably a lot of anxiety about what that’s going to do to property in terms of affordability,” Revoyr says. There is also still much work to be done on other parts of Crenshaw Boulevard. “As you go farther south... the disinvestment of public resources becomes more and more evident.”

Longtime residents like Fields and McElroy also worry that the rail line, along with gentrification and development in single-family neighborhoods, will obliterate their close-knit feel and its rich heritage.

“We all know each other. We all watch out for each other. I recognize every neighbor on my street... Despite the fact that it’s in the middle of a big city smack dab in the middle of a very large city, [Leimert Park] is this cute small little neighborhood that’s fun to just walk around and wander around and just meet people,” Fields says.” I hope that with all the progress that’s being proposed and all the developments that are coming that we’re able to maintain the uniqueness of the neighborhood.”

Along with these vibrant patches of community and culture, there are stretches of the boulevard almost like ghost towns, where boarded up businesses are the norm. For Revoyr, Crenshaw Boulevard remains a street of contradictions. “You see these buildings and these places of great beauty and great promise and then you have at Crenshaw and Slauson Nipsey Hussle murdered in front of his store,” she says. The ’Shaw is a street rich in history, art, commerce and culture, but it has the potential to be so much more.

Source: https://la.curbed.com/2019/5/17/18563304/crenshaw-blvd-los-angeles-nipsey-hussle-history

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hoshomccreesh · 7 years

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Judas-hole or the Poet's Betrayal

It's wrong to say Tangerine Press has become a beast, because it absolutely started out as one, and has only gotten stronger. A quick flip through their back catalog, and you can quickly see what they've been doing, and glimpse just how high they're aiming in the future. So it goes without saying, when I see a call for submissions, I gather up some of my best.

And I was recently lucky enough to place a poem in Judas-Hole, or the Poet's Betrayal -- a glorious project available now. It's touted as a "chapbook journal of new writing" -- issue four in an ongoing series that includes Counterfeit Crank, Quincunx, Turpin's Cave. As with most of my favorite things, this is a limited edition -- only 53 numbered copies made -- hand-sewn by editor/publisher/designer Michael Curran. And the contributors? Claudia Bierschenk, Billy Childish, Ford Dagenham, John Dorsey, Howie Good, Geoff Hattersley, Lyn Lifshin, Hosho McCreesh, Adrian Manning, Marc Olmsted, Joan Jobe Smith, and Fred Voss. Now, I don't know about that McCreesh fellow, but there rest of these folks really know how to string a sentence together. So if you are a collector of rare and beautiful things, need a few good, hard, and true lines to get you through, or just have a few bucks burning a hole in your pocket, give it a look. I doubt you'll regret it.

#POETRY #hosho mccreesh #judas-hole

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karenbelton · 7 years

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The Maryland side of Great Falls is part of the C&O Canal National Historic Park and is located in Potomac, Maryland, in Montgomery County. Geologists believe the falls were formed during the last Ice Age, when the sea level dropped, forcing the Potomac River to cut its valley. The falls drop 76 feet over a series of major cascades and are a popular destination for expert kayakers. In addition, the Billy Goat Trail along the river can be an adventure for hikers looking for a challenge. For the less adventurous, the area offers hiking, biking, and jogging along the C&O Canal Towpath, as well as bird watching and picnicking. The Great Falls Tavern Visitors Center, which dates to 1831, offers self-guided maps and other information, as well as historical exhibits and interpretive programs. In addition, mule-drawn canal boat rides that demonstrate the lift locks are offered from April through October. Most importantly, don’t miss the two overlooks near the Visitors Center. To the north, the Washington Aqueduct Observation Deck offers a view of the upper falls, and to the south, the Olmsted Island bridges offer several scenic views of the Great Falls. IMPORTANT NOTE: The Olmsted Island bridges and overlook are temporarily closed for repairs to improve visitor safety. The closure is expected to last until late June 2017. Call the Visitor Center for up-to-date info: 301-767-3714.

#great falls #C&O Canal #montgomery county #potomac river #maryland #day trips

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feminismyall · 6 years

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Obama Presidential Center won't move controversial parking <b>garage</b>

Despite comments from Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects that the forthcoming Obama Presidential Center (OPC) would consider moving a freestanding parking garage out of the Frederick Law Olmsted–designed Jackson Park in Chicago, officials have decided to keep the building on the greenway. from Google Alert - the garage http://ift.tt/2zbz1Ha

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Opposition Growing Against Obama Museum Eating Jackson Park

Just a day after the Chicago Sun-Times reported that the feds are going to examine the placement of the Barack Obama Presidential Center on a prime chunk of public park, neighbors are getting organized to save their green space.

Potential park in peril by proposed presidential parking plan (via Apple Maps)

“Save the Midway” has been formed to protect the city’s beloved Midway Plaisance from a parking garage and charter bus staging area that the Obama Foundation wants to build at the head of the historic strip of vegetative oasis. It’s made up of a number of individuals and neighborhood groups who think that hacking up the city’s parks for a private enterprise is a bad idea.

The group has put out an open letter to the Foundation, voicing its concerns. Overtly, it seems to think it has a leg to stand on because the Plaisance is on the National Register of Historic Places. The undercurrent in the letter seems to be that they don’t want the Obama museum sucking up part of Jackson Park, either, but know there’s not much they can do about that.

Just as everyone assumed this project was a foregone conclusion, things are starting to look interesting. Read the open letter from Save the Midway below.

Open Letter To: The Obama Foundation, Obama Foundation Inclusion Committee, the Woodlawn, Washington Park and South Shore Community and Economic Development Organization, and Mr. Tod Williams and Ms. Billie Tsien

Dear Messrs. Simas, Strautmanis, Kaplan, Duncan and Williams; Ms. Spann-Cooper and Ms. Tsien,

As you may be aware, local park advocates, preservationists, environmentalists, and concerned citizens have formed, “Save the Midway” (savethemidway.org). We are excited to welcome the Obama Presidential Center to Hyde Park, support its mission to develop new generations of civic leaders, and look forward to its proposed programming in support of this mission. We have, however, launched a local and national campaign to stop the construction of a parking garage, bus staging area, and transit center on the Midway Plaisance. We wish to keep the Midway free and clear and oppose your proposed uses of this important park for the following reasons:

1) The Midway is on the National Register of Historic Places and is thus an important part of our national heritage. The National designation signals to the world that a place is worthy of preservation.

2) The Midway was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and serves as an integral section of his South Park System—a treasured and beloved South Side gem. Notably, Olmsted designed New York’s Central Park and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. We wish to preserve this treasure intact for the South Side.

3) Public parks should not be given over to the ancillary service uses of private foundations but should remain in the public domain. Notably, the Obama Foundation will not be building and hosting a national archive.

4) We believe that taking land for a private development from an additional park sets a bad precedent for the absorption of public land. We trust that any parking and bus solutions will not involve additional parkland and will work well for local residents and the surrounding communities as well as for the OPC and its visitors.

5) We reject the rationale that by putting a green roof on top of the garage that one can call it a park. A garage will diminish park land.

6) Urban areas are in especial need of open, quiet spaces. Olmsted’s ideal park vision was a democratic one: parks are to give urban dwellers from every background respite from urban stress and noise. The Midway does not need what we have been repeatedly informed is the purpose of this structure– a garage to “activate” or “enliven” our communities.

7) Today, environmentally conscious planners seek to eliminate garages from new developments. Research has shown that the availability of parking spaces incentivizes and increases driving—thereby decreasing the use of public transportation and increasing carbon emissions. The nearby parking lot of the Museum of Science and Industry rarely reaches capacity. In short, not only will a garage on the Midway mean a decrease of green space, it will mean an increase in air, light, and noise pollution.

8) We wish the park to continue all of its current uses: a resting and feeding location for migratory birds, soccer, kite flying, sledding, band practice, picnics, dog walking, exercise and simple play. In short, we wish for it to remain a park. Any enhancement to the park should be in accordance with the community approved 2000 Midway Plaisance Framework Plan, which did not contemplate a parking garage on any portion of the Midway.

Our efforts are supported:

1) By the immediate community, most notably the local park stewards: both the Nichols Park and Midway Plaisance Advisory Councils have formally opposed the use of the Midway for auxiliary, non-park purposes.

2) By individuals within Chicago and beyond: Our petition to Save the Midway has hundreds of signatories from the affected neighborhoods as well as from most Chicago zip codes. We also have signatories from 41 Illinois municipalities, nineteen states and several countries.

3) By preservationists and park activists: We have the support of Friends of the Parks, the Cultural Landscape Foundation, leadership of the National Association for Olmsted Parks, and the scores of individuals who have provided us written comments in advocacy to Save the Midway.

We hope that you will take the time to read the attached enclosure which provides a representative sample of comments that we have received as part of our efforts to Save the Midway. Please preserve the Midway for everyone and keep it free and clear for generations to come.

Sincerely,

Michael McNamee Karen Rechtschaffen Co-Chairs Save the Midway

from Chicago Architecture https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2017/11/29/opposition-growing-against-obama-museum-eating-jackson-park/

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Opposition Growing Against Obama Museum Eating Jackson Park

Potential park in peril by proposed presidential parking plan (via Apple Maps)

Just as everyone assumed this project was a foregone conclusion, things are starting to look interesting. Read the open letter from Save the Midway below.

Dear Messrs. Simas, Strautmanis, Kaplan, Duncan and Williams; Ms. Spann-Cooper and Ms. Tsien,

5) We reject the rationale that by putting a green roof on top of the garage that one can call it a park. A garage will diminish park land.

Our efforts are supported:

Sincerely,

Michael McNamee Karen Rechtschaffen Co-Chairs Save the Midway

from Chicago Architecture https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2017/11/29/opposition-growing-against-obama-museum-eating-jackson-park/

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Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

Architecture firm Snøhetta has been announced as the winner of a competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.

The New York- and Oslo-based firm was chosen from a shortlist containing US firm Studio Gang and Danish studio Henning Larsen to design the library.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will have a curved roof

Designed for the northeast edge of the butte, the building will be linked to a curved pathway that will lead visitors around the site, connecting to the Maah Daah Hey Trail and additional pavilions.

The building is intended to blend with the landscape

According to Snøhetta, the building will be built with "natural and renewable" materials and use energy systems that will set a "new standard for sustainable design in the region".

Visuals showing large expanses of wood and glass.

A meandering path leads around the site

"One of Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring legacies is conservation and our national parks," said Theodore Roosevelt V, a great-great-grandson and namesake of the 26th president.

The building will be built with "natural and renewable" materials

An outdoor deck will offer views of surroundings

They were each built in their president's home state, with the most recent library completed for George W Bush in Dallas, Texas.

Pavilions will be integrated into the landscape

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Opposition Growing Against Obama Museum Eating Jackson Park

Potential park in peril by proposed presidential parking plan (via Apple Maps)

Just as everyone assumed this project was a foregone conclusion, things are starting to look interesting. Read the open letter from Save the Midway below.

Dear Messrs. Simas, Strautmanis, Kaplan, Duncan and Williams; Ms. Spann-Cooper and Ms. Tsien,

5) We reject the rationale that by putting a green roof on top of the garage that one can call it a park. A garage will diminish park land.

Our efforts are supported:

Sincerely,

Michael McNamee Karen Rechtschaffen Co-Chairs Save the Midway

from Chicago Architecture https://www.chicagoarchitecture.org/2017/11/29/opposition-growing-against-obama-museum-eating-jackson-park/

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Olmsted Salon presents Jazz in the Cave featuring the Uptown Jazz Tentet on October 13, with two sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm in The Cave at St. George’s (209 E. 16th, side courtyard entrance). $15 cover. Founded and led collaboratively by trumpeter Brandon Lee and trombonists Willie Applewhite & James Burton III, the band is comprised of ten of the most venerable and ubiquitous young sidemen in all of jazz. The compositional styles of Duke Ellington, Billy Strayhorn, Quincy Jones, Gil Evans, Wayne Shorter and Wynton Marsalis inform the ethos of this powerhouse group, shaping the band's unique and unmistakable sound.

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zermin · 7 years

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President and Mrs. Obama Announce Conceptual Vision for Design of Obama Presidential Center

MAY 3, 2017 12:00 PM

Campus Setting Will Include Presidential Museum, Public Plaza and Space that Features a ‘Working Center for Citizenship;’ Plan Revitalizes Jackson Park to Re-Establish Connection to Lake Michigan and Provide Open Community Gathering Space

Chicago, IL – Today, at a community event hosted by President and Mrs. Obama, the Obama Foundation released the conceptual vision and site map for the Obama Presidential Center. More than a building or museum, the Obama Presidential Center will be a living, working center for engagement — an ongoing project for the community and world to shape what it means to be an active citizen in the 21st century. The Center will include a state of the art museum, classrooms, labs, and outdoor spaces, and it will conduct programs that will give visitors not just memories, but real tools to create change in their own communities. It will be based on the South Side of Chicago but, via partnerships, programs, and digital initiatives, have projects all over the city, the country, and the world.

The Center will be integrated into Jackson Park, a historic park in the heart of the South Side of Chicago, the community the Obamas call home. The Center will strengthen the economic climate of the community by bringing hundreds of thousands of visitors to the South Side every year, creating new jobs and opportunities on the South Side, and revitalizing historic Jackson Park.

The design concept released today envisions three buildings – the Museum, Forum, and Library – forming a campus surrounding a public plaza. Honoring the legacy of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux, the Center is designed as a campus in historic Jackson Park to help unlock the full potential of the park as a recreational destination and center for gathering on the South Side for families, community members and visitors alike and to re-establish the South Side’s connection to the Lagoon and Lake Michigan. The campus will be open to the public and the Center will include indoor and outdoor spaces to gather, learn, create and collaborate.

The Museum, the tallest of the three buildings, will hold exhibition space, public spaces, offices, and education and meeting rooms. The Forum and Library buildings will be community resources for study and Foundation programming. The Foundation is currently exploring the possibility of locating a Chicago Public Library branch on the site, but as always will continue to solicit input from the community as to how the Library building can best be used to meet community needs. The Forum will contain Foundation offices, an auditorium, restaurant, and public garden. The Forum and Library will be single story structures with planted roof terraces. The buildings will be connected below grade and clad in a lively, warm and variegated stone while glass openings are deliberately placed to form courtyards, mark entries, frame views, and bring in natural light. The Center will be a real-life symbol of President and Mrs. Obama’s commitment to sustainability; the project will be certified at a minimum LEED v4 Platinum. The total size of the Center will range between 200-225,000 gross square feet, but the concept site plan imagines a re-shaping of the Park that will result in a total net increase in green space for Jackson Park.

“The Obamas want to create a safe, warm, inviting place that brings people in, teaches them something new, and inspires them to create change in their own communities. The Center will be a place for doing, not just looking or listening, “saidMarty Nesbitt, Chair of the Obama Foundation. “The place we are developing will be integrally a part of Jackson Park. Our team’s approach is to weave the project into the park and use the Center to unlock the full potential of the park and engage the community in the Foundation’s work.”

David Simas, Chief Executive Officer of the Obama Foundation, “The Obamas charged the Foundation with developing an engaging and welcoming Center that will inspire people globally to ‘show up’ for the most important office: citizen. The Center is designed as a campus to integrate into historic Jackson Park and to encourage local residents and visitors alike to explore the community and bring people together for events, recreation, and programming. We are pleased to be working with community leaders, local institutions including the Museum of Science and Industry and DuSable Museum, the University of Chicago, and City of Chicago on the vision for the Center and Jackson Park, and look forward to receiving feedback from the community in the coming weeks and months.”

“I am thrilled to join President Obama and Mrs. Obama as we outline the vision for both the Obama Presidential Center and Jackson Park as a whole,” said Mayor Rahm Emanuel. “This vision will enhance the historic landscape of Jackson Park as originally envisioned by Frederick Olmsted, and we all look forward to engaging with residents as we begin the community process to turn this vision into reality in a way that maximizes economic development and opportunity in Woodlawn, South Shore and Washington Park.”

“The design for the Obama Presidential Center promises to bring a beautiful new addition to Jackson Park and the South Side community,” said Robert J. Zimmer, President of the University of Chicago. “The Center will benefit the entire Chicago region as a catalyst for economic development, cultural enrichment and community programming.”

The design team for the OPC is led by Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners and Interactive Design Architects. The landscape design team is comprised of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, Site Design Group, and Living Habitats. Ralph Appelbaum Associates will lead the exhibition design team for the OPC, in partnership with Civic Projects and Normal, and artists and educators Amanda Williams, Andres Hernandez, and Norman Teague. The Center Consortium, a tri-venture comprised of Jones Lang LaSalle, McKissack & McKissack and Ardmore Associates, is leading the project management of the design and construction of the OPC. To ensure that the work of the Foundation is informed by a diverse set of viewpoints and is in line with its values of diversity and inclusion, the Obama Foundation announced the formation of an Inclusion Council in October 2016.

“The design approach for the Center is guided by the goal of creating a true community asset that seeks to inspire and empower the public to take on the greatest challenges of our time. The Obamas were clear that they wanted the Center to seamlessly integrate into the Park and the community, and include diverse public spaces. Our hope is that this design for the Center interspersed with Jackson Park honors the legacy of Olmsted and Vaux and unlocks potential and opportunity for Jackson Park, the South Side, and the City of Chicago,” said Tod Williams, Billie Tsien and Dina Griffin of Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects | Partners and Interactive Design Architects.

Download high-resolution images | Credit: Obama Foundation

Contact: Kate Berner, [email protected]

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Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota

Architecture firm Snøhetta has been announced as the winner of a competition to design the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in Medora, North Dakota.

The New York- and Oslo-based firm was chosen from a shortlist containing US firm Studio Gang and Danish studio Henning Larsen to design the library.

The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library will have a curved roof

Designed for the northeast edge of the butte, the building will be linked to a curved pathway that will lead visitors around the site, connecting to the Maah Daah Hey Trail and additional pavilions.

The building is intended to blend with the landscape

According to Snøhetta, the building will be built with "natural and renewable" materials and use energy systems that will set a "new standard for sustainable design in the region".

Visuals showing large expanses of wood and glass.

A meandering path leads around the site

"One of Theodore Roosevelt's most enduring legacies is conservation and our national parks," said Theodore Roosevelt V, a great-great-grandson and namesake of the 26th president.

The building will be built with "natural and renewable" materials

An outdoor deck will offer views of surroundings

They were each built in their president's home state, with the most recent library completed for George W Bush in Dallas, Texas.

Pavilions will be integrated into the landscape

The post Snøhetta to design Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library in North Dakota appeared first on Dezeen.

#Architecture – Dezeen

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