{"id":1172,"date":"2015-03-06T15:15:42","date_gmt":"2015-03-06T15:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=1172"},"modified":"2015-06-04T20:05:33","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T20:05:33","slug":"rudolph-government-center","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2015\/03\/rudolph-government-center\/","title":{"rendered":"Legislators Fail to Save Paul Rudolph\u2019s Orange County Government Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.architectmagazine.com\/preservation\/photographer-matthew-carbone-shoots-paul-rudolphs-orange-county-government-center_o.aspx\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1254\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2015\/03\/rudolph-government-center\/cdnassets-hw\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cdnassets.hw_-e1433448322665.jpg?fit=876%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"876,378\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-title=\"cdnassets.hw\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cdnassets.hw_-e1433448322665.jpg?fit=876%2C378&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1254 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cdnassets.hw_-e1433448322665.jpg?resize=876%2C378&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"cdnassets.hw\" width=\"876\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cdnassets.hw_-e1433448322665.jpg?w=876&amp;ssl=1 876w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cdnassets.hw_-e1433448322665.jpg?resize=400%2C173&amp;ssl=1 400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/cdnassets.hw_-e1433448322665.jpg?resize=500%2C216&amp;ssl=1 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, legislators <a href=\"http:\/\/www.architectmagazine.com\/preservation\/photographer-matthew-carbone-shoots-paul-rudolphs-orange-county-government-center_o.aspx\">failed to save<\/a> Paul Rudolph&#8217;s Orange County Government Center\u00a0(right down the road from me\u00a0in Goshen, N.Y.)\u00a0despite proposals that\u00a0were actually more economical than destroying it and rebuilding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"press-this-suggested-source\">Michael Kimmelman posits that\u00a0the decision <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/03\/04\/arts\/design\/clock-ticks-for-paul-rudolphs-orange-county-government-center.html\">may not have been for the reasons usually cited<\/a>\u2014the building&#8217;s Brutalist aesthetic, and current\u00a0state of disrepair\u2014but instead\u00a0that legislators hate the building because &#8220;Rudolph\u2019s design was about openness, transparency, accountability. It was thereby a daily rebuke to how legislators &#8216;now run the county&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday, legislators failed to save Paul Rudolph&#8217;s Orange County Government Center\u00a0(right down the road from me\u00a0in Goshen, N.Y.)\u00a0despite proposals that\u00a0were actually more economical than destroying it and rebuilding. Michael Kimmelman posits that\u00a0the decision may not have been for the reasons usually cited\u2014the building&#8217;s Brutalist aesthetic, and current\u00a0state of disrepair\u2014but instead\u00a0that legislators hate the building because [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Legislators Fail to Save Paul Rudolph\u2019s Orange County Government Center","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,166],"class_list":["post-1172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-architecture","tag-local"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-iU","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1172"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1257,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1172\/revisions\/1257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}