"People first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her."
GK Chesterton
"People first paid honour to a spot and afterwards gained glory for it. Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her."
GK Chesterton
The vast majority of structures are old mass-wall brick buildings, and it’s these humble red boxes that are breathing new life into Columbia’s downtown. Old warehouses, rail depots, mills, and factories are now serving the community as grocery stores, apartments, offices and restaurants. Solid brick walls, with their common-bond coursing, provide such a stable platform for creating and sustaining civic spaces by virtue of their honest construction, human scale design, and enduring nature.
Over the summer, I had an opportunity to help my friend Seth tackle a few projects that he was working on in his home state of Vermont. Part need to winnow down an overbooked work schedule, part excuse to hang out together, and part desire to visit Vermont made for a commitment wholly worthwhile.
