Charleston and savannah. Different approaches to preserving their layer tahj. A tale of two cities as lee cowan will report in our cover story. Savannah, georgia, and charleston, South Carolina. Historic cities of the south. Faced with a design dilemma. The question is how do we move forward . How do we honor our past and point toward a future . Preservation and progress ahead on sunday morning. look around the house and grounds here demonstrates, good design can reveal itself in ways big and small. Luke burbank this morning shows us how small things can make a world of difference. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder but good design thats something everyone can appreciate,. I think the notion that because somebody is poor they dont have the same appreciation for beauty or function is completely erroneous. This is a stone from india. Creating heidi sign and low cost. Later on sunday morning. Design plays a role in many aspects of our lives. Even if something is just being built for laughs. This morning comedian Jerry Seinfeld will be sharing his insights with anthony may on. Jerry seinfelds internet show is about cars and comedy. Hes obsessed with the design of both. You break comedy down in architectural way. I like structure. I like lodge glike later on sunday morning, we go for a drive with Jerry Seinfeld. Am i driving too fast for you . Cleaning windows at auldbrass is pretty down to earth task. But on a skyscraper, this morning, mo rocca does windows. Architects design them, construction workers build them. This is good exercise. Who cleans them . I dont do windows. Well unless im window washing a skyscraper on the 38th floor. Ahead on sunday morning. Richard schlesinger introduces us to shaker design. Jane pauley looks at architecture you can take to the bank. Seth doane has spotted castles made of sand. First, lets go to Christine Johnson in the newsroom for our sunday morning headlines. Good morning its may 31, 2015. Beau biden eldest son of Vice President joe biden and two time attorney general of delaware has died after a battle with cancer. We have report from marlie hall. Vice President Joe Biden announced that his oldest son beau died of brain cancer. Saying the entire family is saddened beyond words. We know that beaus spirit will live on. The former well dare attorney general and member of the Delaware National guard was 46 years old. He served a year long tour in iraq while in the National Guard and like his father was a lawyer. Biden of the hospitalized at the Walter Reed National military Medical Center earlier this month. At the time however younger biden underwent surgery in 2013 to remove a small leash an. He suffered a mild stroke in 2010. Last year beau biden announced he wasnt planning another term at attorney general and hoping to run for governor. He leads behave his wifea daughter and son. Secretary much state john scary has cancelled remainder of four nation european trip. Kerry broke his leg this morning in a bike accident in france. The senate meets in a rare sunday session today because some of the provisions of the patriot act expire at midnight. Ken ken republican senator rand paul an opponent charges the measures are quote an illegal spy program. Former Maryland Governor martin owe mall precise hes running for president. He will challenge Hillary Clinton and vernon senator bernie sanders. More rain in parts of texas. Another 3. 5 inches fell yesterday in houston. At least 31 people have died in storms that began over memorial day weekend. The Chicago Blackhawks are heading to the stanley cup finals. Game one against Tampa Bay Lightning set for wednesday. For todays weather thunderstorms are forecast from texas to montana. As well as much of the eastern part of the country. In the week ahead drier in texas. But stormy in the east and hotter in the southwest. Osgood next. The low country by design. Ladies and gentlemen, Jerry Seinfeld. Later here goes nothing. Osgood Jerry Seinfeld just fors laughs. Osgood it he may sound like a dream come true to, own a grand estate designed in 1939 by americas foremost architect Frank Lloyd Wright. Wright named it auldbrass. Adapting the name of a historic plantation although nothing is planted here but live oaks and cypress trees. Spread across some 300 acres of South Carolinas low country a region defined by rivers and tidal marshes. But just three decades ago auldbrass had fallen into disrepaira costly White Elephant that no one it seemed, was willing or able to save. When i got it, it was ready for the bulldozer. It was pretty much, you know, barely alive. Its taken almost 30 years to bring it back to where it is now. Hollywood producer joel silver is best known for his blockbuster films. Silvers 1986 purchase and restoration of auldbrass has been the most audacious production of his career. Very expensive hobby. And i found early on that if i could make successful movies that made a lot of money that i would be able to benefit from that to utilize those funds to explore other things. Im going to build a guest house. One of the few times were going to build a new Wright Building in the exact site. Thats last project. Silver maintains auldbrass as wright intended. A private retreat. Opening it to the public on occasion to raise funds for the regional open land trust. The architects vision endures. From the smallest detail to the grandest. Nature is the inspiration. A love of place exalted by design. By the time auldbrass was designed the nearby cities of charleston and savannah were both more than 200 years old. How they deal with the challenge of Historic Preservation makes for genuine tale two of cities. Our cover story reported by lee cowan. They are two belles of the south. Savannah georgia. And charleston, South Carolina. About a hundred miles apart they have been rivals for centuries. Debating everything from which has the best manners to which makes the sweetest tea. But they have something in common, how to preserve their monthsdraped Southern Charm without turning their backs on progress. Theres a lot of jealousy between the two of them. Retired American History professor was born in charleston but spent last 50 years in savannah. His home off monterey square, was built in 1869. How can you keep city like this charming and preserve its history and yet still move forward at the same time . Well, many would say we dont want to move forward at the same time. Were happy just the way we are thank you very much. Many in charleston might say the same thing. And thats the design dilemma. While its tempting to want to put these historic cities in formaldehyde charlestons mayor says thats not a viable answer. A historic city should be a living place. Because if you dont have that its a former something. A former once great city that now is pretty to see. Charleston has the oldest Historic District in the country. Carefully preserved the grand public building as well as the mansions along the battery of course the famous rainbow road. The style is the single house. Tall slender homes theyre called piazzas here some sometimes look out over a private garden. Its an architectural fabric that New Buildings have a hard time matching. Its like there is this beautiful painting. We have an opportunity to paint something within that beautiful painting. Its got to be careful that what you paint there dont detract from the overall context of what has been created. Its up to charlestons board of architectural review to approve new construction. Sometimes the mayor himself gets involved as he did with the architect of a proposed parking garage. I said i want a building that doesnt look like a parking garage. No, thats what we do here in charleston. I dont want it to look like a parking garage. This is what resulted a. Garage that actually won federal design achievement pared. Then Charleston Place a 400 room hotel paled the citys muster, but only after it was built to fit with the style of the buildings around it. And the 142 million performance hall. But for modernist architect like ray huff charlestons restrictions can make new design a bit tricky. What were having now is a bit of clash of values as it much in trying to determine how do we find that right balance. Thats a difficult proposition. When Clemson University designed this contemporary building to house the schools Architecture Center in charleston, it was met with such opposition the plans had to be scrapped. The process of going through getting permits and what have you for a building is an extremely difficult process in charleston. The same debate is ringing throughout savannah. Although here Historic Preservation takes on a little different tone. Is there a general sense about sort of modern and contemporary architecture coming into savannah . I think we embrace it. But we ask questions about whether this building will contribute to the city. Christian sottills, the dean of the school of building arts. And architect behind this, the schools new museum of art. We set out to design a building that would communicate across three centuries. One that incorporates what was left of the oldest surviving Railroad Depot in the country. We like to use the term Creative Preservation. Thats not very hopeful. But Creative Preservation is making and saving. Its both. That depot is one of more on this 70 Historic Sites that savannahs college of art and design have saved and repurposed f. A former county jail to is theth century armory. It is a living laboratory. Many of the buildings like this one look out on program savannahs best known feature. Its squares. There are 2 of them all. In fact its considered one of the nations first planned cities. Its not as old as charleston, savannahs Historic District is much larger stretching stretching from the waterfront with buildings like savannahs Cotton Exchange still stands to neighborhoods where homes with gas lanterns and intricate iron work sit beneath the spanish moss. This is what makes savannah. And the new can still spark controversy. The 64,000 square foot Jepson Center for the arts designed by moshe safdie was tough to get by review board. Some still dont like it today. A Grand Staircase filled with glass, but maybe not so appropriate for historic city like savannah. These port cities of the south, savannah and charleston, are survivors. They have out lived fires hurricanes, slavery and war. Surely will design disputes but not without a fight. Osgood coming up. Keeping it simple. That is an extra drawer. Shakers didnt like to waste space. My scalp hurts. My hair hurts. This is what it can be like to have shingles. A painful, blistering, rash. If you had chickenpox, the shingles virus is already inside you. 1 in 3 people will get shingles in their lifetime. Well i had to go to the eye doctor last week and i have to go back today. The doctors worried its so close to her eye. Talk to your doctor or pharmacist about your risk. Osgood frank plowed wright custom designed furniture. By contrast Richard Schlesinger introduces us to a furniture making tradition whose designs couldnt be more practical. At the Hancock Shaker village in far western massachusetts they have always kept things simple and clean. Its a museum now where visitors can see classic Furniture Designed centuries ago by the shakers. The lines of the furniture are as clean as the rooms it in habits. Leslie herzbery is the curator. They were thinking of it as being functional, streamlined simple, beautiful design. They didnt mean for it to be beautiful . They didnt. They would never refer to it as beautiful. These no films, no flourishes chairs may be the best known legacy of shaker design. Shakers came to the u. S. From england and established themselves as a christian sect in the late 18th century. Their design style followed their lifestyle. It is simple and above all practical. This is a blanket chest made in the 1800s. What is the thing on the bottom. That is an extra drawer. Shakers didnt like to waste space. There was an additional way to use the space more efficiently the shakers would find it. They were Innovative Group that came up with new ways to solve old problems. Its true. So the shakers did the same thing. But what the shakers figured out was in order to preserve the chair and also to preserve their floors, if you added this tiny Little Design element to the back postss of your chairs you could preserve both that back post and your floor. This is brilliant. It swivels, if i may . It swivels with the chairs. You go back. This is brilliant. Invented by the shakers. Now seen on most classroom chairs for kids. In their heyday in the 19th century there were roughly 6,000 shakers in nearly two dozen communities from main to, kentucky. Their founder was a woman known as mother anne. They lived communally so cleanliness became if not next to godliness at least really close. Mother anne once said theres no dirt in hiv en. Keeping your living quarters and eating quarters and your work quarters clean was very important. And so thats why you have things like the shaker builtins you dont have to clean on top or beneath them. In fact a lot of shaker design evolved from the necessity to tidy up. Among other things they invented the flat broom. And the pegs which you see in every shaker thing they are for hats or what . Theyre for almost anything. Not only could you push your chair under the table you could also hang it up on your peg. And why would you do that . Wellf you wanted to clean underneath it. But you would often hang it upside down so that dust wouldnt gather. They brought this trestle from this lower position, they brought up into the upper position. They brought it up to that position to so that they could clean under every table every day. Easier to get a mop underneath. Right. Full disclosure, is my neighbor. These are the peg racks and the chair. He has spent decades studying and following shaker design. In the design world we use the word to shakeriz, almost like a verb to simplify. He makes shaker furniture but he also makes more contemporary pieces. Frequently with a glance back at the shakers. That aesthetic has driven most of modern Furniture Design for the last 50 years. The shakers designs have stood the test of time and influenced furniture makers of more recent times. But time might finally be catching up with them. Since the beginning shakers that have been celibate, so new members can be hard to come by. Mother anne once said that once the number of shakers dwindles to as many as you can count on one hand there will be resurgence. Maybe thats true. Where once there were 6,000 shakers, today there are just a handful living together in maine, perhaps the last of their kind. Walked on there dash. Osgood just ahead. We build a better mousetrap. Medication to help lower your a1c. Ask your doctor if adding onceaweek tanzeum is right for you. Onceaweek tanzeum is an injectable prescription medicine that may improve blood sugar in adults with type 2 diabetes along with diet and exercise. Onceaweek tanzeum works by helping your body release its own natural insulin when its needed. Tanzeum is not recommended as the first medicine to treat diabetes or in people with severe stomach or intestinal problems. Tanzeum is not insulin. It is not used to treat type 1 diabetes or diabetic ketoacidosis and has not been studied with mealtime insulin. 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