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Gym sublease: when one activity goes out of fashion, ink the page for another. 

This isn’t the first time I’ve covered a sublease within a gym or health club, hereafter referred to as a “physical fitness marketplace”.  A few years ago, I noted how a physical therapy clinic had moved into a space within a larger health club—a glassed-in chamber that previously served as a racquetball court.  This time,

Auto-oriented use in a company town founded before the Model T. 

In a scramble to meet my quota of articles before the end of November, I offer a simple ponder and an almost 360° view at a single intersection.  A series of photos offers all that is necessary to conceive a small manufacturing city’s metamorphosis through the increasing prevalence of the automobile over the twentieth century. 

Squat building squeeze: in megacities with huge land costs, how do tiny buildings survive?

As if it weren’t obvious already, I’m fascinated by architectural oddities—aesthetic efforts that don’t quite come together as intended, or fail to mesh with their surroundings.  Plenty of people feel much the same, as evidenced by the numerous blogging initiatives on the subject, though many bloggers are more vituperative than I intend to be.  (Then

Rehoboth Mall: the dead mall deconstructed (architecturally and rhetorically).

Malls across the country, large and small, urban and suburban, enclosed and open-air, are dying.  They’re getting sucked into a vortex of shifting consumption patterns that rejects what we might call peripatetic shopping.  The image of an attractive woman clothing multiple large paper bags is increasingly passé.  People shop while seated at their home computers,