Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The lights turned on and the houses fell down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
The lights turned on and the houses fell down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Demolition is the reality and the seriousness of life.
Noticed that striking Meyerland Mod headlining our demolition report this morning? The 1956 home at 4815 Braesvalley Dr. first came to Swamplot’s attention 9 years ago, as the site of a remarkable scene. The then-86-year-old architect Lars W. Bang, a prolific purveyor of Modern Houston homes, was driven to the property in hopes that the real estate agent listing the 4-bedroom property might confirm that he was indeed its designer. “My husband, Jim, helped him out of the car and invited him into the house,” Meg Zoller wrote, “but Mr. Bang’s knees aren’t what they used to be . . . and he just wanted to stand out front and look at the house. After some time he decided that he could not confidently say whether the home was one of his designs or not.”
Bang passed away the following year, but not before his authorship of 4815 Braesvalley was confirmed. (It turned out his name was on a set of plans kept by the Meyerland Homeowner’s Association.) Writing in the next edition of the Houston Architectural Guide, Stephen Fox labeled it a home that “rescues Meyerland from being boring.” The plan contains 3 courtyard spaces, one of them now topped by a screen roof:
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A Lars Bang, that is, plus a few other prime choices to mow down.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
A little neglect may breed great demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Take my excavator, now, hold it tight and don’t let go.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Tanglewood, Tanglewood always up to no good…
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is demolition.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Plunge boldly into the thick of demolition!
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Your good demolitions will always win over your bad luck.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Little houses, the fates are calling on you.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Here the figures, here the colors, here all the images of every part of the structure are demolished to a point.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Houses must be dealt with before the hour gets too late.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Whether survey or chalk, these houses are done for.
Swamplot’s Daily Demolition Report lists buildings that received City of Houston demolition permits the previous weekday.
Pure demolition is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.