HARRIMAN, Tenn. (WVLT) - On Devonia Street, everyone is selling something. Today, they're able to, because of what firefighters did last week.

"The biggest thing I couldn't emphasize more is that the wind was going in the right direction," says Karen Sella who owns a massage therapy business right behind the the old Miller & Brewer Building.

On Thursday, a fire at the old Miller & Brewer Building threatened to wipe Karen Sella out. But, she says her shop survived because of the firefighters who fought for it.

"I really believe they saved this block," she says.

The work has been tireless and the job is still far from over.

"In the last two or three days, we've probably put 100,000 gallons of water on this fire," says Harriman City Fire Chief, Brad Gross.

But, the remaining hot spots are so deep, they are having a hard time getting to them. That's where ACE Inc., a demolition company, comes in.

"We're shoveling up the material to allow the firemen to get down to the fire," says Sam Russell, the VP of Operations at ACE Inc.

"That's the purpose of getting the material moved around and getting what debris is left moved around so we can get those hot spots again," says Goss.

Chief Goss says he hopes to get rid of all the hot spots by Wednesday night. But, his team has already finished one job: Keeping Karen Sella's business up and running.

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Demolition begins at old Miller & Brewer Building

Published: 14 Jan 2015 12:30

COUNCIL chiefs are pushing for the demolition of the former Greenock Academy to take place as soon as possible as costs spiral to 230,000.

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The Madeira Street building has been lying empty since last May when the Waterloo Road drama was axed by BBC bosses and filming stopped on the site.

The cost of securing the building and the significant amount of asbestos inside it have both been blamed for pushing the bill up.

Now council chief executive John Mundell has used emergency powers to speed up the demolition process.

Originally the council set aside 164,000 to cover the cost of demolition.

But a total of 71,000 from that pot of cash has been spent on securing the site since the departure of the Waterloo Road production team.

This has resulted in a shortfall in the budget to cover the demolition, which will now cost 230,000.

Council bosses will have to identify money from other budgets to fund the demolition, which will be carried out by Reigart Contracts.

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In the Central Pavilion in Venices Giardini, Rem Koolhaas and his curatorial team have broken down architecture into 15 basic elements. The Ceiling display pairs the dome in the pavilion, painted in 1909 by Galileo Chini and newly restored, with its contemporary counterpart, the dropped ceiling.

Rem Koolhaas, director of the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, casts scorn in myriad directions in this three-headed hydra of a show, ambitiously entitled Fundamentals. His approach, we learn from the torrent of print drenching the pavilions, advances various socio-critical goals. National identity, a notion that underlies the very Biennale concept, is deemed obsolete in a globalized world. Previous Biennales, heavy on form, are implicitly condemned. Architecture is exposed as thoroughly constrained by how inextricably embedded it is in other social phenomena. Architects are declared largely impotent to affect the economic, political, and social forces shaping buildings. We may posture as geniuses, Koolhaas writes, but we play our assigned role in the uberscript of modernization.

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The 2014 Biennale, which opened on June 7 and runs through November 23, has three parts. For the national pavilionsclustered primarily in Venices Giardini, a Napoleon-era public garden, and Arsenale, a former shipyard of the Venetian NavyKoolhaas instructed curators to investigate how the countries they represent have dealt with modernization under the umbrella title Absorbing Modernity: 19142014. In a second section, also in the Arsenale, Monditalia curators developed an achronological multimedia extravaganza highlighting Italian architectures cross-fertilization with other forms of cultural expression in a display of architectural, artistic, and intellectual oddities and glories from Ticino to Sicily.

For the third section, exhibited in the Central Pavilion among the national presentations, Koolhaas collaborated with students and faculty from the Harvard Graduate School of Design as well as other institutions and industry experts, presenting what they deem the 15 Elements of Architecture. Each, we learn, will be the subject of its own book. Thus Koolhaas, his research office AMO, and the Harvard team position their 15 new books as superceding Vitruviuss five and Albertis 10. So you dont miss the point, copies of these and other canonical treatises greet you as you enter the show.

The Venice Biennale has typically showcased projects and installations that curators select for formal elegance, technological innovation, or both. At worst, it serves as architectures Fashion Week, an uncanny carnival of decontextualization crammed with preciously made models, artful photographs, and installations by big-name stars of the show. Form ber alles.

Koolhaas is correct in pointing out that this elides and mischaracterizes critical issues in contemporary practice: it belies architectures invariably collaborative nature; it ignores the multiple ways in which design is constrained by economic, political, and social contexts; it glosses over the irrelevance of nationalistic preening in an ever-more-networked, globalized world. Whats important, Koolhaas insists, is not architects but architecture.

True enough. But when you entitle the most lavishly funded and heavily curated architecture exhibition in the world Fundamentals, expectations get raised. Whats fundamental about how countries have absorbed modernity? Why 15 elements of architecture, not 11, or 20? What is Koolhaas trying to say? Should we listen?

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