Back to the old Boiler Building, and the machines are really tearing it down now. The whole east side has been turned to rubble, leaving a sad, draughty, haunted shell. A small crowd of people with young, construction-machine-loving-aged children (you know the age, parents!) to see the mighty mechanical dinosaurs at work, and to wave goodbye to a historic part of UC Davis. Back at work, I spoke about this sad demise of a much-loved campus sight to some of the professors who have taught there for the past few decades. “Where’s this, then?” they said. “Boiler Building? Is that downtown somewhere? Don’t know that one.” Well, I’ll miss it. Even if I too had no idea what it was for until recently.
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Where on campus was it?
I would love to see all of these drawings in one post to see the progression of the demolition (well that sounded rather poetic!)
and here it is (so far at least!) … http://www.urbansketchers.org/2012/12/lights-go-out-walls-come-tumbling-down.html
I’ll probably do one here once it’s all down, document it all together. It’s quite exciting sketching its progress.
I love all the sketches in one place. I’ll be interested to see phases of the new construction and final product. Is there a poster of the “planned improvement” for the site? Cheers!