Archive for Waterfronts
July 9, 2010 · Filed under Authenticity, Creative Cities, Diversity, Economics, Industrial, Revitalization, Waterfronts
Maybe Richard Florida has promoted the wrong creative class. In his model, artists beget coffee bars that make formerly dreary neighborhoods attractive to real estate developers, who lure lawyers and accountants into luxury loft buildings with names like “the Shoe Factory.” Maybe there’s another model, one that sucks a little of the class bias out of the formula and privileges artisans over artists, blue-collar jobs over white-collar ones. Give enough people who are passionate about making things the stability to invest in equipment and hire workers, and you might slow, or even reverse, the death spiral.
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March 17, 2010 · Filed under Artificial Landscapes, Cities from Scratch, Climate Change, Ecosystems, Multi-Level Urbanism, Urban Agriculture, Urban Design, Visualization, Waterfronts
Australia circa 2050, population 35 million, climate change induced rising sea levels have flooded the Gold Coast resort region, apartment blocks are now used to grow food and people commute in monorail pods above the sea.
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February 12, 2010 · Filed under Architecture, Cities from Scratch, Density, Multi-Level Urbanism, Waterfronts
What If an Entire City Could Be Housed Under One Roof? It seemed until recently that Dubai was going to continue forever its quest to build taller, faster, better buildings. But the Matrix Gateway Complex, by Adrian Smith + Gordon Gill Architecture, while certainly no small project, seems to take a different tack. “I appreciate the sort of restraint of this, the notion of making a kind of interior world that might have potential for a new kind of experience. It’s not simply about making some sort of icon on the skyline,” said juror Stan Allen. The massive 180-meter (590-foot) cube is built on an 18-meter (59-foot) supergrid, with steel frame structures clustered around, and hung from, five vertical cores. Accessible via a roadway that passes through the center of the building, a helipad, and a boat dock, the cube has a hotel with conference facilities, retail and office space, residences, a museum, a school, and a prayer hall—all of the major elements of a small city.
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August 4, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Artificial Landscapes, Density, Generative Design, Master Planning, Urban Design, Urban Structure, Waterfronts
Visiondivison shared their entry for the Koivusaari Idea Competition to create a new city district on an island just outside Helsinki, Finland. The competition asked participants to organize a master plan for the island that would provide the framework for further planning. Visiondivison’s proposal, Urban Fade, is comprised of a highly efficient city grid that allows users the option of moving around the district to interact with the different areas.
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June 11, 2009 · Filed under Artificial Landscapes, Beauty, Density, Infrastructure, Landscape, Master Planning, Multi-Level Urbanism, Urban Design, Waterfronts
During the academic year 2008—2009, the College of Design at the University of Kentucky conducted a year-long research and design study of the Shippingport area in Louisville. The Shippingport area, located just west of downtown Louisville, has significant waterfront and extensive infrastructure and enormous potential for future development. Development has been limited, however, because the entire area is cut off from the rest of the city by the freeway. In fall 2008, students analyzed and made strategic design proposals for the Shippingport area intended to stimulate economic development and bring much-needed jobs. Proposals included a complex of business incubators and needed vocational schools, including a culinary school with a restaurant; a centralized hospitality complex; a network of pocket parks that connect to the existing Olmstead Park system; and a new Green Ford Motor Company Campus where a new line of hybrid and electric products would be designed, developed and built.
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May 28, 2009 · Filed under Density, Diversity, Housing, Planning, Public Space, Real Estate, Urban Design, Waterfronts
On Westerdokseiland a new high-density urban district has been added to the centre of Amsterdam. Sardines crammed into a tin or attractive housing in the heart of the city?
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May 6, 2009 · Filed under Density, Infrastructure, Monuments, Multi-Level Urbanism, Tall Buildings, Waterfronts
Plans for a new bridge across the Thames lined with shops and homes - similar to the Ponte Vecchio in Florence - are being drawn up by Boris Johnson.
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March 18, 2009 · Filed under Creative Cities, Waterfronts
As the Olympic countdown continues, Vancouver prepares for its close-up as the “supermodel of North American cities. The accolade comes from Friday’s Life section cover story by USA Today — the largest national American newspaper in circulation.
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March 16, 2009 · Filed under Architecture, Planning, Waterfronts
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City officials here have yet to announce the winning design for the Slussen project, which aims to replace a tangle of traffic circles, bridges, underpasses and boat locks in the heart of this city. But they have already done us a major public service.
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February 4, 2009 · Filed under Landscape, Parks, Urban Design, Visualization, Waterfronts
One hundred years after its inception, the vision of Daniel Burnham has inspired two Chicago architects to create an eco-bridge they hope will be completed with the help of a 2016 Olympic bid.
Burnham “defined the character of Chicago as a place of visionary pragmatists,” said Paul O’Connor, director of communications and marketing for the Burnham Plan Centennial. “The inspiration and intimidation of Burnham and [his assistant Edward] Bennett” have encouraged later generations to do more and to do better, leading architects Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill to revive the plan 100 years later.
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