Blogroll: Preservationnation (8/19/08)
Preservationnation is back with a lot of great content. Here’s the latest:
Tour us, build biceps
One of the new headlines implores potential tourists to Drop That Guidebook and Grab a DVD, based on the move of staff at Drayton Hall (near Charleston) to allow rentals of DVD players as virtual tour guides. Whether folks find lugging around a DVD player more convenient than a brochure is anyone’s guess. When they start renting out the iPod Touch, I’m there.
Teardown! … the pdf!
Preservation’s obsession with teardowns now comes encapsulated in a tightly designed 27-page pdf that features 30 tools communities use to respond to these events. More than 300 links to specific examples are included.
This Place Continues to Matter
More photos there. It’s a wonderful idea … Just wish they hadn’t taken the Web 1.0 approach that makes you sign up for a proprietary site to share.
Dirty, Sexy … Preservation?
Philip Johnson’s Glass House is the setting for 7 For All Mankind’s fall advertising campaign. From “7’s” page about the campaign: “The Glass House was the ideal setting for this season’s campaign as it effortlessly conveys 7 For All Mankind’s brand vision of luxurious style and sexy sophistication…In addition to guided tours, the Glass House will launch programs and provide national leadership in the preservation of the Modern.”
New stories in Preservation Magazine
Featured thumbnail of Drayton Hall courtesy of Karmon on Flickr
