Somehow, the original fantasy is maintained in the 80s makeover of the interior. More extremes - a “Ladies Room” with PoMo treatment of Art Deco that slips perfectly into Blue Velvet, Carnival of Souls and Wayne Thiebaud-“Contradiction” simply fails to describe it all.

This is the Depression Era Hollywood movie palace architecture. Spanish colonial revival of “New Spain”. The facade whips together a coat of arms, a lion head, onion domes, rosettes and more.

The Fox Theatre is a fragment of the roaring twenties’ opulence set within a seemingly endless grid of agricultural infrastructure. This taste of candy-coloured baroque amid an ambient smell of industrial-scale cow shit has a disturbing allure.

Its the conflation of extremes makes the Midwest, at times, so impactful. Out here, there is no comfort blanket for “creative types”, and it’s all the more challenging for it.

It looks like PLAIN Design Build will get the chance to work on this piece of classic piece Americana for the North Platte Community Playhouse ( AKA the Fox Theatre )in western Nebraska.

I get a little tired of the old-world dismissal of the American Midwest and the cliches of culture industry snobbery towards “flyover states”. I guess it’s the long hangover of YBA faux radicalism or just more parochial Art Basel crap.

You can view it on. and the Video here. Thank you to all the students.

We are thrilled to win the ACSA Design Build award for the Mizer's Ruin. This is the third time our PLAIN Design-Build organization has won this, and it represents a genuinely co-creational model for architectural education.

RT @fantasyproducts: Check out our collaboration for the AI for Interspecies Communication Challenge Grant with @earthspecies +featured @le….

Check out our collaboration for the AI for Interspecies Communication Challenge Grant with.@earthspecies+featured @lets_experimentto support interspecies design in Ogallala, NE.

@MASContext.

Architects renovating past projects may fall into deceptive nostalgia. I am very grateful to Iker Gil and Mass Context for publishing this. I also want to dedicate this to the memory of Jonathan Hill. His influence is in here somewhere. I miss him.

Penultimate dry assembly for BLIND outside Arch Hall. From here it goes to Cedar Point for installation overlooking the priarie dog colony. Thanks all for great semester!.#unlarchitecture #clt #easternredcedar @unlarchitecture @plain_design_build

Dry assembly for our latest project BLIND- Prarie Dog Observation building. From here it goes to UNL for final review then to Ogallala to be installed at the Cedar Point Bio Station overlooking the priarie dog colony! Thanks to Arc5/611 students and Ti…

All. Please join us this evening at 5PM for Becky's thesis exhibition in Arch Hall - The New Crits Space. #architecturaleducation #archiytecturalthesis . @unlarchitecture .

Of all the projects Jeff and I have worked on through our design-build studio PLAIN and FACT, this one will have the most impact in Lincoln. This is PLAIN-FACT collaboration that pulls together an incredible group of students and a seriously committed cl…

plain_design_build.Back Loop Curve Continuity at Wesleyan. Vac-formed curved CLT made from "unusable" lumber helping diversify forestry production and exploring alternatives to concrete and steel. #crosslaminatedtimber #designbuildeducation #architecture…

Happy to see the ongoing work of PLAIN recognized by UNL in NE Quarterly. These are reminders of the ongoing work by students that string these projects and ideas together over the years. The Mizer’s Ruin itself an adaptation of the plan for our project …

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