Designs That Stink

"Buildings That Stink," ENR cover story this week:

http://www.enr.com/new/coverstry.asp

A prime reference for toxic mold hazards and remediation
is NYC Health Department's "Guidelines on Assessment
and Remediation of Stachybotrys Atra in Indoor Environments":

http://jya.com/nyc-moldrpt1.htm

Includes NYC DOH's "Facts on Mold."

The guidelines are base on a conference held in 1993 on
the hazard overseen by the late Dr. Irving Selikoff, the main
investigator of asbestos hazards and unflagging public interest
physician -- a hero of mine, for which we have none comparable
in our wretched simpering profession.

True, asbestos remediation has become big-time crime, like ADA
is becoming, and as surely will that MBA-opportunism for
mishandling toxic mold, following the examples of historic preservation,
world monument rescue, affordable housing, community development,
national infrastructure, green building and environmental protection.

How did Muschamp's Sunday "degradation" of movie-multiplex and
design ambitions read to readers here? Pretty good list of the 27
architectural
varieties of self-imprisonment conceits, eh? Including his own crit soup,
as he self-laceratingly lashed in closing the lid to his foxhole.

'Course, big-time crime of moviemaking filled three pounds of the Times
Special Edition on filmmaking and its advertising toxic mold, so Herbert
was obliged to slather the topic. The Times takes in $1billion in advertising
so it can afford to relinquish the 3% from tobacco, years after the deadly
weed was known a killer -- Selikoff could not get the Times to cover
tobacco and asbestos, either, nor could I get Goldwater or any of the
Times culture critics to respond. Huxtable wrote that she was not allowed
to cover news, only rouge the corpses homicidal design causes.
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