IF your image of a city hall involves a venerable building, some Roman pillars and lots of public employees, the version offered by this Atlanta suburb of 94,000 residents is a bit of a shocker.
Faced with creating Hogwarts, meant to be 1,000 years old, on a fairly short schedule for the first film, Mr. Craig turned to a centuries-old venerable building in England.
According to architects and engineers, every certificate of occupancy governing the reuse of a venerable building is a singular compromise worked out with the Department of Buildings, and there are different building-code standards for museums and schools.
And fair enough, although the damage to Clandon appears to be more severe than Windsor's, there seems no obvious reason why the Trust should not do for this venerable building, preserved for the public benefit, what the royal family did for their castle – where the destruction initially prompted gushing promises (subsequently regretted) to restore every shred of flock wallpaper, as good as old.
Located in a highly visible, venerable building (the former Veterans Hall) with towering entrance columns, directly across from town hall and next door to the firehouse, it should be an ideal spot for a restaurant, especially as it is on a street chockablock with places to eat.
But on 6 July members of Melbourne's burgeoning cosplay community – dressed as comic book superheroes, video game characters, and notable denizens of the big and small screens – made their way to the third annual Oz Comic Con at Joseph Reed's venerable building.
He portrayed the inland city of CÃ3rdoba, a bastion of Hispanic traditionalism, as a somnolent relic, its venerable buildings reflected on the stagnant waters of an ornamental lake.
And since most new owners either restore, renovate or expand the venerable buildings, enough "old" houses are essentially "new" to tour-goers.
He had to shoehorn his building into the northwest corner of the Columbia campus, next to venerable buildings by McKim, Mead & White and on top of Columbia's gymnasium.
Now, to be considered for some venerable buildings, an applicant must submit three months' worth of cancelled checks, forgo a mortgage, and — in one memorable case — pretend to have a cold in order to mask a Bronx accent.
The lesson to be gleaned from the destruction of the old Penn Station is about the importance of preserving McKim's public-spirited ideal for urban splendor as much as it is about preserving venerable buildings.
