Skylines changed forever: The Teesside buildings that bit the dust in 2020
The bulldozers moved in - now these iconic Teesside treasures have gone forever
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Even a worldwide pandemic, it seems, can t stop change.
And while Teesside spent most of 2020 in lockdown, the bulldozers moved in on some of its best-loved buildings.
Clark County History: Kaiser Shipyards
A Tale of Six Cities By Martin Middlewood, for The Columbian
Published: December 27, 2020, 6:00am
Share: Employment at the Kaiser Shipyards brought 45,000 workers and their families to Vancouver right after World War II started, and they needed housing. Suddenly villages sprung up forming a ring around middle-class Vancouver. This 1942 photo taken on the new communities opening day shows the areas offering temporary homes for shipyard workers and their families: McLaughlin Heights, Fruit Valley, Ogden Meadows, Bagley Downs, Burton Homes and Harney Hill. (Contributed by Clark County History Museum)
Once World War II broke out, the Kaiser Shipyards worker recruitment ballooned Vancouver’s population. Abruptly, a town of 18,000 faced an influx of 45,000 more. Stunned by a population spike of two-and-a-half times its own, the city turned to planning.
At Home for the Holidays: How Designer Jesse Neargarder Decorates His Moody, Dramatic Interior
Neargarder, whose clients include Drake s and Hudson House, invites us inside his colorful Oak Cliff home.
By
Rachel Behrndt
Published in
D Home
2020
Photography by Elizabeth Lavin
A flair for the dramatic helped Jesse Neargarder find his calling. While working as a theater actor, he created sets for several productions and, in the process, discovered a love for design. Today, he carries that knack for “setting a scene” into the interiors of Dallas restaurants with his company, Foxcroft Studio. (Recent projects include Drake’s, Lucky’s Hot Chicken, and Hudson House.) “Restaurant design is really fun because it has a big component of theater to it,” he says. In the Oak Cliff home he shares with his husband, architect and kitchen designer Eugenio Reyes Retana, Neargarder is constantly changing things up. One thing, however, remains constant: He cares more about the feeling
First images of how Brambles Farm will look once tower blocks are demolished
They have dominated the skyline for decades but the area is set to look a lot different by next year
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They have dominated Middlesbrough s skyline for decades.
In fact, it s hard to imagine what Brambles Farm will look like without its imposing tower blocks.
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