Besides being a terrific actor, Diane Keaton is a former board member of the Los Angeles Conservancy and is currently a trustee of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She bemoans the loss of the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.

Foreclosed farm, Great Depression

Hill House, Scotland, Charles Rennie Mackintosh. Can you imagine this in vinyl?

The Samuel Trask Dana Building was renovated by William McDonough and Partners

Bill McDonough is interviewed in Newsweek Magazine. His comments on old buildings going green:

We have noted previously that I.M. Pei's Church of Christ Scientist in Washington is under threat of demolition; Brutalism isn't in style these days and Churches don't have a lot of money, and they want to tear it down. The City says it is of historic importance.