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John Arnold

_The Evening Post_, 3 April 1925:
          FLATS AND HOMES
   MODERN HOUSEKEEPING
REMARKS OF PROFESSOR OF
          ARCHITECTURE
  … Professor C. R. Knight, who arrived at Auckland this week to take the new Chair of Architecture at the Auckland University, laughingly denied having any particular plans for teaching new architecture to New Zealand. Every town… had to be judged from an architectural point of view by its local conditions…. Location, trade, and lay-out all had their influences on building.
  Trained in England, France, and America, Professor Knight is a young Australian…. He says that the most striking thing about architecture in New York at the present time is the development of the “flat.”…
“I think… #flats will continue to grow with the cities,” added Professor Knight, who instanced one or two very large Sydney flats. As the business of a city grew, private houses gave way to shops and stores. The people had then to either live in flats or get out to the far suburbs, and a very large proportion of them preferred the flat with its close proximity to the theatres, shops, and restaurants, and its absence of many of the usual household worries including the servant."
paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/news

Black-and-white photo: Northern portion of Wellington Terrace, 1928. Photographer, E. T. Robson. Extended caption: Parliament Buildings in the foreground, to the left. The Congregational Church to the right. Bolton Street is behind Kelvin Chambers (medical). Dr. Henry’s house, St. Andrew’s Church and Braemar Flats to the right. Mayfair Flats (in front of the Home for returned soldiers) are in course of construction. Description: A view of the inner city buildings on flatter land with hills in the background, the closer slops with houses, those further away not built on significantly. Citation: Louis E. Ward, _Early Wellington_, Whitcombe and Tombs, 1928, p. 317. https://digitalnz.org/records/1541364/fig-220basin-reserve-1928-showing-the-new-pavilion-the-dixon-memorial-clock
Details of the photo showing the Mayfair Flats in course of construction.
#OnThisDay#OTD#PapersPast
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Chuck Darwin

On September 11, 1957, a national catastrophe was unfolding,
one you likely have never heard about before.

At the #Rocky #Flats nuclear weapons facility near Denver,
inside the #plutonium #processing building,
a #fire had started in an area designed to be fireproof.

Soon it was roaring over, through, and around the carefully constricted plutonium -- as one Cold-War-era safety feature after another failed.

The roof of the building, the building itself, were threatened.
And plumes of radioactive smoke went straight up into Colorado's late summer night air.

For 13 hours on the night of the 11th, into the morning the next day, the fire raged inside that building,
until firefighters put it out
with water
-- exposing themselves,
and perhaps the entire front range of Colorado, to an even greater risk of radiation.

When it was over, Energy Department officials, and the #Dow #Chemical officials who then ran the facility,
did not share the extent of the catastrophe,
or the radiation danger,
with local officials or the media.

For years, no one really knew how bad it had been,
what it meant for those exposed to the radiation,
or how such a dangerous event could be prevented in the future.
theatlantic.com/national/archi

The Atlantic · A September 11th Catastrophe You've Probably Never Heard AboutBy Andrew Cohen
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