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The 1880s Cosby Hotel building in downtown Kansas City has won a reprieve from the wrecking ball, thanks to some Facebook friends and other decidedly 21st-century lobbying. Using e-mail alerts, Internet chat rooms and a Save the Cosby Facebook page signed by 177 people, preservationists and downtown residents have rallied on behalf of the nationally recognized historic building that opened in ...

For ten years, French and others have sought to save the Cyclorama Center. PHOTO BY DON WILES A decade ago, Christine Madrid French, a one-woman modern architecture-saving dervish, landed on the cover of C-Ville for her attempts to save Gettysburgs Cyclorama Center , the 1961 visitors building designed by noted modernist architect Richard Neutra and his partner Robert Alexander. It appears ...

First published in The Church of England Newspaper. The Australian Federal government has declined to step in and save St Paul’s Anglican Cathedral, the Bishop of Bendigo reports. In January the Diocese of Bendigo’s cathedral was closed as a public safety hazard and a fence erected around its perimeter after a slab of concrete sheeting fell from the roof during a wind-storm. A survey of the 140-year-old building in February found it needed almost £2.6 million in repairs before it could be r

The front page of today’s Guardian ran with a story on Binyam Mohamed and his fight to stop evidence of his torture from being destroyed: The photograph will be destroyed within 30 days of his case being dismissed by the American courts — a decision on which is due to be taken by a judge imminently, Clive Stafford Smith , Mohamed’s British lawyer and director of Reprieve, the legal charity, said today. Reprieve recently relaunched their website and they chose Clearleft to help