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Go Green!
If ivy causes buildings to be blown away, there are some that deserve massive plantings as soon as possible. Why, everyone knows the ancient Cornell Library Clock Tower on it's breezy hill top has to be replaced every ten years because of wind and the Ivy League love of green on limestone. Does Seattle have a prohibition about planting ivy or can heritage preservationists put ivy all around Gehry's Music Museum in the name or preserving what was once a nice street corner? It is so embarrassing that he was born in Canada. How could a nice Canadian boy have gone so wrong!
cp in ever green bc
(former Ivy Leaguer)
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Subject: [BP] lord this is going to make you conservation nerds so damned happy...
American Architect and Building News December 3, 1924
Ivy and Its Dangers
There exist two principal ways of destroying buildings, both equally efficient ... a) dynamite, b) ivy, states "The Builder" (London). Once ivy has attained a real grip on a building it will send its roots into every crevice of the wall, sucking the mortar into dry dust; its tendrils will wedge the stones apart, and its branches act as sails to catch the wind. Sooner or later during a storm the building collapses and everyone attributes this to the action of time instead of attaching the blame to ivy. But even if Ivy had not these deadly attributes there would be nothing beyond a vague sentimentality to urge in favor of its existence even on old ruins.
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