This intensity scan is the first in a number scans that we will be uploading from our First United Methodist Church Cocoa Beach project. Scanned with our new Leica ScanStation P40. More to follow!
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Architectural Digest is featuring a review of Mod Mirage: The Midcentury Architecture of Rancho Mirage.
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Photo courtesy Jim Newland, La Mesa Historical Society Taken June 29, 2018 With the decorative white beams to the right, this image depicts the complete demolition of the Roundhouse Rotunda. You can see the bridge to the service area remaining on the left.
Thank you to Karen Pearlman of the San Diego Union-Tribune for her coverage of the Penske-Ford Roundhouse demolition. The article demonstrates the cultural significance of the building to the local community.
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Status of the Penske-Ford Roundhouse demolition in La Mesa as of June 22, 2018. Image provided by Jim Newland, La Mesa Historical Society
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The ChronoPoints team ventured to La Mesa in March to capture the Penske-Ford Roundhouse prior to its impending demolition. We just learned the demolition of the building is now underway. We are currently working on a detailed Project Page regarding the structure’s history and our laser scanning effort. Until we launch the Roundhouse Project Page, here is a sample laser scan image of the building.
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The Millard Sheets Mosaic project page from our La Mesa, California scanning trip is now available – take a moment to visit!
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ChronoPoints team member, Rob Michlowitz, has located software from potree.org that will enable you to view and manipulate our laser scans!
The McKinney House in La Mesa is the first example – more to follow.
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We just completed registering the scans from the McKinney House on our recent trip to La Mesa, California. Visit the McKinney House on the projects page.
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ChronoPoints will be conducting a laser scan of the First United Methodist Church of Cocoa Beach later this month.
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Today is the 57th anniversary of Alan Shepard’s suborbital Mercury flight representing the first American in space. ChronoPoints scanned the Mercury Mission Control room at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor’s Center a few years ago. Please visit our video of the project https://vimeo.com/111700062
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Together with Langan Engineering, we laser scanned the TWA Flight Center at JFK just prior to its transition to a hotel. If you are curious as to how it is progressing, this Architectural Digest article provides a glimpse … https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/twa-hotel-jfk-room-design
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Today, I was in Cocoa Beach researching several locations that ChronoPoints plans to laser scan this summer. I thought I would share this wonderful City of Cocoa Beach emblem from the 1960s when the community was known as Missileland, USA due to the influence of nearby Cape Canaveral (Kennedy). The logo depicts the outline of a Minuteman Missile rising from the Cape.
If you have traveled to Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), there is a good chance that you have seen these colorful mosaics that bring life to what would be very long and dull walks within the airport’s tunnel system. While the public can only see three of the original seven mosaics today, they are wonderful representations of mid-century LAX. So while walking through the Terminal 3 tunnel today, I could not resist snapping this photo and of course, it reminded me of a great 1963 movie, Sunday in New York, where Cliff Robertson’s character raced through one of these tunnels (but it
Our March trip to San Diego was very productive. We were able to laser scan the Roundhouse building at Penske-Ford prior to its impending demolition and two additional area structures! While in La Mesa we also captured the exteriors of the JSC Innovation Centre (formerly a Home Savings building with a Millard Sheets Studio mosaic) and the 1908 McKinney House (La Mesa Historical Society). For additional information on the Millard Sheets mosaics on former Home Savings buildings throughout San Diego and Los Angeles http://adamarenson.com/category/home-savings-and-millard-sheets/ https://la.curbed.com/2011/10/10/10435072/how-la-banks-got-their-midcentury-mosaics-and-murals
The ChronoPoints team is heading to San Diego, well actually La Mesa just outside of San Diego, to capture the Penske-Ford Roundhouse building just prior to its impending demolition. The Roundhouse was inspired by the Ford Pavilion at the 1964/65 New York World’s Fair. Upon returning from the World’s Fair, the dealership’s original owner Elmer Drew, commissioned architect James Hurley to create a structure that invoked the lines noted Los Angeles architect Welton Becket developed for his masterpiece at the Fair. Read more about the Roundhouse demolition in the San Diego Reader. Additional information regarding Welton Becket can be found in Built by
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See our paper on scanning the TWA Terminal at JFK International Airport and the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank for the 2018 Creative Cities Conference/ Congreso Ciudades Creativas: MID-CENTURY MODERN STRUCTURES AND COMMUNITY: CAPTURING A BUILDING’S LIFE (ESTRUCTURAS MODERNAS Y COMUNIDAD DE MEDIADOS DE SIGLO: CAPTURANDO LA VIDA DE UN EDIFICIO) Authors: Robert A. MICHLOWITZ, Lori C. WALTERS, and Michelle J. ADAMS
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Wondering what the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank would look like if it were a 3D puzzle? Here is an exploded view of the building.
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ChronoPoints recently assisted members of the National Cemetery Administration in a heritage project at St. Augustine National Cemetery.
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Here is a new 3D print of the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank. This print is the largest to date with LED lights to provide an understanding of how thin the “glass” is. Thank you to the PD3D Lab here at IST for all their work on the model.
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Yep, here is a bit about the Glass Bank!! http://video.wucftv.org/video/3006255918/
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Three members of the ChronoPoints team, Lori Walters, Robert Michlowitz, and Michelle Adams, conducted a roundtable discussion at the 2017 HASTAC Conference. Thank you to all those who attended our discussion, Closing The Loops: Using Iteration To Document A Structure’s Life History And Create Realistic Virtual Recreations.
Testing a new material for printing the glass areas for the Glass Bank. Thank you to the PD3D Lab here at IST!
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Looking for the New York State Pavilion and other projects? Now that we have launched our new website, we will be busy populating it with new images and more about our projects. Many thanks!
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Welcome to the new ChronoPoints website!! Here we have joined together under the single ChronoPoints banner all our websites – including Documenting the Cocoa Beach Glass Bank and Reflections of Project Apollo. We hope that you enjoy the new format and visit often.
