Urbanism News
Friday, April 30, 2004
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They're All Absolutely Prefabulous Say the words prefab housing, and most people think of snap-together bungalows and log-cabin kits. But a new generation of architects is making prefab more fun. |
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Suburban Retailing for the New Brooklyn Even as the assorted factions with stakes in the future of Brooklyn haggle over the relative merits of housing versus industry, preservation versus economic development, and the needs of the affluent versus those of the working stiff, a quiet retail revolution has already come to the eastern shores of the East River. |
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Lung association ranks most polluted cities Southern California tops the list of the nation's cities and counties most threatened by air pollution, according to the American Lung Association's annual report. |
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Robotic traffic cones swarm onto highways Herds of robotic traffic cones could soon be swarming onto a highway, closing down lanes and slowing the traffic. |
Thursday, April 29, 2004
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An open mind on open space
Jane Jacobs's remarkable insights about urban parks - never improved upon in the 40 years since her book first appeared - should be raising cautionary flags for those imagining the future of the land located above the depressed Central Artery. |
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Rebuilding confidence An ambitious, globally inspired regeneration scheme for Oldham hopes to restore wounded civic pride. |
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‘Green’ Buildings Emerge in Boston The aims of green building are to minimize the use of energy, water and open space; to use sustainably produced materials; recycle waste; and have access to public transportation or car pools. As the buildings consume less energy and resources, they also strive to maximize the advantages of nature: fresh air, sunlight, views and outdoor access. |
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Home is where the art is Paducah, Ky., transforms a run-down neighborhood by luring artists with gallery, studio and living space. |
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The Great Creative Class Debate Along the Amtrak ride north of Baltimore, a 875,000 square foot Rite Aid distribution warehouse has sprouted from cornfields. Some might point to this as a sign of healthy market growth. But considering that $7.1 million in taxpayer money went to help build the warehouse -- and hundreds of millions more may come in the future in the form of new roads and subsidies to transport workers from distant Baltimore neighborhoods -- it sounds a lot more like state-sponsored socialism than the free market. |
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New Improved Brooklyn A glittering skyline, waterfront condos, new jobs, Frank Gehry buildings galore: Brooklyn is on the verge of a makeover even more extreme than you thought, re-creating itself in Manhattan’s image. What’s wrong with this picture? |
Wednesday, April 28, 2004
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Transgressive Architecture On March 29, 2001, an article in London’s Evening Standard carried the headline “Sex has its place in public: Lord Rogers.” The article stated, “Architect Lord Rogers has said he supports streets and public squares being used by prostitutes, beggars and rough sleepers. [Rogers] told a packed lecture at the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) that he defended the rights of buskers, vendors and 'participants in public sex' to use London's public places.” |
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The Urban Canvas Seoul’s dense composition is constantly reborn, leaving behind traces of brief existences. Ever-changing advertising appendages and decorative frou-frou masks any permanency in the city. |
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Transurbanism The City is dead – long live the city. This inherent paradox is the core of TransUrbanism; a collection of essays that attempts to interpret the change globalization has wrought on urban space, world culture and social interaction. Book review by Bridget Venne @ loudpaper. |
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Glory of the Gherkin The Gherkin, more formally known as the Swiss Re Tower or 30 St Mary Axe, has slipped so easily into the London skyline that it comes as a shock to discover that it officially opened only yesterday. That is the trouble with a very, very tall building. It takes so long to go up that, by the time it is finished, you feel you’ve known it for ever. |
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Roads without lines are 'safer' The central white lines on roads in a Wiltshire village have been removed as part of an experiment to slow down traffic. |
Tuesday, April 27, 2004
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Shopping shifts to 'off-mall' stores Department store operators are starting to shift from their mall bases to more freestanding stores, a strategy that offers more flexibility in opening stores and tries to capitalize on changing consumer shopping preferences. |
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Town to Get £5 Million TV Revamp A former mining town is set to receive a £5 million facelift in a new television makeover show, it emerged today. |
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Seven Teams Short-Listed To Redesign New York's High Line Seven star-studded teams have been selected as finalists in a competition to redesign the "High Line" -- a 1.45-mile-long elevated rail structure on Manhattan's west side, extending from Gansevoort Street to 34th Street. Built in the 1930s, the 6.7-acre line has been out-of-use since 1980. However, two years ago, the city of New York petitioned to convert the line to an elevated pedestrian walkway and public open space. |
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An ultra-modern expression of 21st. Century ecological urban living. Filmic urban space; around, over and through multifaceted spatial layers, is one of the central aims of this 160,000 square meter Hybrid Building complex with over 700 apartments sited adjacent to the old city wall of Beijing. |
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Seattle's new downtown library is so striking, so revolutionary, so odd and so lovely that one struggles to find a metaphor to explain it. A Rubik's Cube cinched by a corset? A crystal frog poised to leap at the staid federal courthouse up the hill? A Christmas package so lumpy that it torments you with guesses? [via] |
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Designing spaces, connecting lives For rising landscape designer Walter Hood, working in the center of the urban maelstrom is where he finds satisfaction. |
Monday, April 26, 2004
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'Maybe they're scared of me' Zaha Hadid was once famous for not getting anything built. Now she has won the equivalent of a Nobel prize. |
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1960s "Archigram" revolutionaries find respectability at last Once dismissed as a "student joke", 1960s architectural collective Archigram have found respectability at last, with London's prestigious Design Museum launching a retrospective of the movement that literally redrew modern architecture. |
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Soaring Ambitions The world's most visionary architects are rebuilding China. Inside the aesthetic revolution. |
Saturday, April 24, 2004
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Minimalist Oases in a Bustling Manhattan Taking a Minimalist art tour in a maximalist city like New York is not easy. |
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Top Ten Green Projects Showcase Environmentally Responsible Design In recognition of Earth Day 2004, The American Institute of Architects (AIA) and its Committee on the Environment (COTE) have selected 10 examples of architectural and “green” design solutions that protect and enhance the environment. |
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Honk If You Love Quiet Residents are being driven to distraction by rising traffic noise levels. The din is shown to be unhealthy, but officials often turn a deaf ear. |
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Why city mice ship cheese to country mice The most important and lasting news story of the year, in my opinion, came and went with barely any notice a few weeks back. |
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Vinyl is no substitute for wood. Why is it that even people who are interested in matters of style, willing to spend a little extra on a good haircut or a nice pair of shoes, think only of the bottom line when it comes to their home's doors and windows? |
Friday, April 23, 2004
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Eye-opening look at what we ignore Forget skyscrapers and shopping malls. A terrific new photography exhibition in San Francisco shows that the most pervasive marks of our modern world are considerably more mundane: the things we usually don't notice. |
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Can condos and entertainment venues make a neighborhood out of the city's core? "The reality is, wherever people are is a neighborhood," she concludes. "The question is, what are you gonna do with it?" |
Thursday, April 22, 2004
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Monumental Design? A discussion of the self-organizing city versus the necessity of (urban) design. |
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Skin and bone Architects have been designing and planning organic structures for a decade. Now, finally, some of them are getting built . |
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Hong Kong's New Tallest The second tower for the International Finance Centre, new headquarters for the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, perches near the narrowest crossing of the beautiful Victoria Harbour and marks a new gateway to the city. The so-called "Two ifc," at Central Waterfront is said to be the world's third-highest building and the safest highrise completed since September 11, 2001. |
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For New Jersey Towns, an Experiment: Putting Growth Here, Not There Larry Durry is a New Jersey farmer, and as any farmer would, he opposed a plan to restrict housing developments here in his town. After all, housing is usually the last and most profitable crop a suburban farmer like Mr. Durry will raise in his fields. |
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Game Plan Once the world’s largest landfill, Fresh Kills is on its way to becoming the city’s newest playground. Aric Chen reports on how a concept becomes a master plan. [via] |
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As prosperity clogs roads, India's drivers yield to no one A new report calls for strong global measures to counter the growing problem of traffic deaths. |
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
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After Zaha: the intriguing anti-modern Welsh opera house that dare not speak its name This venture has a long, fraught history. More than a decade ago, a plan was hatched to build a new opera house here. There was an architectural competition in 1994, won by Zaha Hadid. She hadn't built much in those days, and was regarded by some as being dangerously radical, not to mention female. Later the Millennium Commission suffered a violent allergic reaction to Hadid. In Wales, there was an equally toxic local reaction against what was seen to be an elitist design parachuted in by sneering London aesthetes. The Hadid scheme was axed amid uproar. After a cooling-off period, the process was started again. This time it would be Welsh to the core. The supposedly offputting term "opera house" was dropped. |
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One For The Books A new public library by Rem Koolhaas is surprising and bold. It comes just in time for the troubled architect. |
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Going Dutch Can Rem Koolhaas hold onto the title of world's most influential architect? |
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
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Cities to lead quiet revolution
There's a quiet revolution taking place in our leading cities. Places that were once the engine room of the industrial revolution, employing millions in mills, factories, ports and shipyards, are learning new ways to create wealth in the global economy where brain has replaced brawn. |
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Manhattanites Will Soon Find Depots Close to Home The Home Depot is moving into Manhattan, with plans to open at two locations before the end of the year. "We feel the time is right," said John Costello, the executive vice president for merchandising and marketing at the Home Depot, citing the number of Manhattan residents and contractors who now travel to the other boroughs and beyond for renovation supplies. |
Monday, April 19, 2004
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In the City, Laps of Luxury Jonathan Leitersdorf, a wealthy entrepreneur, grew up with a swimming pool in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. So when he bought a multimillion-dollar home in the United States several years ago, he built a heated outdoor pool, studded with ocean-blue tiles hand-painted in Spain and ringed by a teak deck. [via] |
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Beauty: China's new revolution The freeway linking Shanghai's elegant new airport to its miraculous city centre is perhaps the most lavishly landscaped freeway in the world. |
Sunday, April 18, 2004
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Campaign to bring back trees to France's rural roads For tourists, they are part of the fabric of France - tree-lined avenues throwing dappled shade on to country lanes. For local authorities, they are a menace. Over the past 30 years they have felled thousands of maples, planes and poplars because of fears that they distract drivers and cause accidents. |
Saturday, April 17, 2004
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Master Builder Frank Gehry has designed everything from cardboard chairs to vodka bottles. His next project: remaking New York City. |
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Tips on ethical transport Before buying a new car, chew on some facts and figures: 1) Road traffic grew by 73% between 1980 and 2002 and is a major source of air and water pollution, habitat destruction and global warming 2) 24,000 early deaths a year are attributed to poor air quality in Britain's cities, and there are road deaths equivalent to two Paddington rail crashes a week 3) A quarter of the environmental pollution and 20% of a car's lifetime energy expenditure occurs during manufacture 4) Transport as a whole now accounts for 26% of UK greenhouse gas emissions 5) Of each 1,000 units of pollution in urban areas, 560 come from cars, and just 7 from buses and coaches. |
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Ugly Office Buildings Get New Lease on Life For rent: newly converted luxury "loft" with strange layout in ugly 1970s office building. |
Friday, April 16, 2004
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A top skateboarder fights for the right to roll on city streets. Street skating is all about taking the architecture and using that as your canvas. |
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Big Dig's Ripples Extend Far Past Downtown Boston As the 10-year disruption of downtown by the $14.6 billion Big Dig nears an end and this almost 400-year-old city starts to redesign the surface of its newly exposed central corridor, the commercial, residential and industrial real estate markets are witnessing rises in values and changes in uses that are rippling through surrounding towns. |
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Putting back alleys on the front burner A U of T student project looks at new ways to use Toronto's laneways for living space. |
Thursday, April 15, 2004
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Human Design When architect William McDonough designs a factory, he tries to make its waste water clean enough to drink. |
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B.C. Campus Composite In the realm of mixed-use developments, certain mixes of use have become commonplace: office and retail; housing and schools; cultural and entertainment facilities. But a new complex for Surrey, British Columbia, Canada has drawn attention by combining an unlikely pair: a regional shopping mall and a campus for a major university. |
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Blobitecture: is design going pear-shaped? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Actually, it's more a sort of, well, "blob".That's the term that the great thinkers and critics of our day have come up with to describe the new amoeba-shaped architecture. |
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Back to the drawing board If certain architects had had their way, Londoners would cross the Thames on a Diana memorial bridge - and Dutch pigs would live in tower blocks. Fiona MacCarthy looks at buildings that never were |
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Apple prides itself on innovation. Creativity. Right. So what's with the heavy steel box downtown? The cube at the corner of Stockton and Ellis streets is handsome, to be sure, a gleaming package stuffed with such goodies as an all-glass staircase. But it's not a real building. It's a 30-foot-high corporate branding concept that could be located anywhere. |
Wednesday, April 14, 2004
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A New Face for Lincoln Center After a few false starts and some loud internal grumbling, the Lincoln Center Redevelopment Project has found itself a fine, mellow groove. What we've got here is the inverse of the Wow Factor: a new plan for the center's public spaces so understated as to seem almost uncanny. It looks just like Lincoln Center, only smarter, more self-aware and amazingly confident in its sense of direction. |
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Engineers Are Digging Deep To Rebuild New York’s Subways New York City’s subway turns 100 with $2-billion program to improve functionality and aesthetics. |
Tuesday, April 13, 2004
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Beyond Burnham
New visions for Chicago's lakefront: What should a park look like in the 21st Century? |
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Just don't try building this at home At first glance, it is an apartment building like countless others around the world. A medium-height slab made of concrete and glass, it occupies an anonymous site surrounded by parking lots and a shopping mall. |
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Shhh! Libraries leading downtown revitalization For dozens of U.S. cities in the past 15 years, new downtown libraries have been unlikely — but surprisingly effective — tools for energizing urban neighborhoods. |
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This means war It looks like a fortress and has gun-slits for windows. Is Cambridge's new court a symptom of terror-blighted Britain? |
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Have architects cracked?
It's a common cry heard in boomtown Edinburgh these days. "How did they ever get permission to build that?" is the query raised almost every time some new glass structure or strangely shaped building appears on the city landscape. |
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Stoplight to punish suburban speeders In a move unprecedented in the Bay Area, the city's traffic engineers have created a traffic signal with attitude. It senses when a speeder is approaching and metes out swift punishment. It doesn't write a ticket. It immediately turns from green to yellow to red. |
Monday, April 12, 2004
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Paris' Les Halles to Get Makeover Hanging gardens, tinted towers, or an outdoor pool? The mayor of Paris has unveiled four revolutionary projects aimed at giving the symbolic heart of the capital, Les Halles, a total makeover. |
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Alien insects and homogeneity threaten city trees
The United States is under attack from alien invaders who are waging war against city trees. |
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The Emerald Megacities of Southeast Asia The megacities of Southeast Asia are a dream and a nightmare cohabiting. Emperors could only dream of capitals that so prodigally display might and money; urban planners must wake screaming from visions of massed poverty in the same places. Authors of fairy tales might have dreamed up the architecture while particle physicists sank into reveries of how much energy a mere city could generate. Claustrophobes are condemned to the nightmare of midget apartments that ring with the heavy metal noise; drivers fret the hours away in pinched streets shrouded in gasoline fumes.
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Saturday, April 10, 2004
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A little bit of Edmonton in Manhattan New Yorkers are thought of as a pretty hearty breed, capable of hailing taxis with their mere brainwaves, sleeping seven people in an apartment the size of a walk-in closet, and slaying giant subway rats with a well-turned thumb. But do they know how to use an escalator? |
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Chic coops to house urban chickens An iMac-shaped invention destined for city gardens across Britain may look a little futuristic next to the water feature, but it pops out enough old-fashioned Easter eggs to feed a family of four. |
Friday, April 9, 2004
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Latin Invasion New Urbanism, the antisprawl movement started in the 1980s, is now a household name. But "Latino New Urbanism" (LNU), the moniker for a new series of public dialogues and educational programs looking at low-income, predominantly Mexican neighborhoods in Southern California, has those who first hear of it scratching their heads. |
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The Streets of London are Lit with Wi-Fi The Register has got a very interesting report up which says that: at the WLAN Event in Olympia, Last Mile has officially revealed its plans to install 150,000 wireless circuits, including memory, in 150,000 lampposts in the UK. |
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Sky Ear Sky Ear will be a one-night event in which a glowing "cloud" of mobile phones and helium balloons is released into the air so that people can dial into the cloud and listen to the sounds of the sky. |
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Building Careers, Despite the Barriers March was Women's History Month. How timely that March was also when London-based, Iraq-born architect Zaha Hadid was declared the winner of the 2004 Pritzker Prize, considered by many architects to be the most prestigious -- and its $100,000 award the most remunerative --international recognition an architect can receive for design. |
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Establishing a sense of place in a suburban wilderness A new residential scheme in west Dublin is completely different to the monotonous two-storey housing so typical of the area. |
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Edifice Envy When gauging Chicago's architectural reputation, does size still matter? |
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Jewish District Rallies to Save Its Soul From Renovation A pedestrian mall in the old Jewish quarter of Paris? |
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Homesteading Reborn for a New Generation To Entice Newcomers, Rural Kansas Towns Offer Land. |
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'Clever' car to solve congestion A three-wheeled car that measures just one metre across and carries two people could be the answer to our growing traffic crisis, its developers say. |
Thursday, April 8, 2004
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Putting 40,000 Readers, One by One, on a Cover The 40,000 subscribers to Reason, the monthly libertarian magazine, receive a copy of the June issue, they will see on the cover a satellite photo of a neighborhood - their own neighborhood. And their house will be graphically circled. |
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Derelict land to be transformed, says Prescott Thousands of acres of wasteland are to be turned into "open green spaces" over the next 10 years, the government announced today. |
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Lisbon Harbor Control Tower Portuguese architect Gonçalo Sousa Byrne won a competition for the Lisbon Harbor Control Tower in Lisbon, Portugal, completed in 2001. |
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Barcelona Runs Deep The Poblenou area of Barcelona is experiencing a renewal. As the doorway to the site for the 2004 Universal Forum of Cultures — with themes of cultural diversity, sustainable development, and world peace — this traditional industrial district is taking on a new technological focus. |
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Unconventionally Colorful In case the city of Montréal, Québec needed a kickstart into the 21st century, it certainly has one now. The colorful expansion of the Palais des Congrès doubles the size of the existing convention center and puts the city on notice that sober limestone and granite are being challenged as the urban norm. |
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Design teams come up with 22 ways to redo waterfront With imagination the only constraint, nearly two dozen teams held captive for two days in February have created their vision for a downtown Seattle waterfront without the viaduct. |
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A Major Lane Change The once innovative cloverleaf freeway interchange is now considered a bottleneck. Flyover ramps are seen as the way to go. |
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Japan Sees High-Tech Toilets, Robots in Future Home Imagine getting home from work to be greeted by the family robot, which recognizes your voice and reminds you that you've forgotten your spouse's birthday before alerting you that the hospital has just called. You go to the study and use a touch panel to activate your video messages on a display that takes up half the wall. A doctor appears: "I've been monitoring your urine on the Internet. You're too fat, your sugar level is high and you drink too much beer." |
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
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Modernism's roots stir anew A new West Coast community centre establishes a symbiotic relationship between design and environment. |
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Game Plan The world’s most glamorous cities are vying for the 2012 Olympic Games. Here’s a look at New York’s competition. |
Tuesday, April 6, 2004
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Sierra Club's 'soul' is at stake
Immigration is a divisive issue. |
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The Architect’s Architect What’s it like to have Daniel Libeskind as a client? And for him to be one? [Via] |
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Ill wind blows in California over feng shui idea Lawmaker ignores snickers, proposes new building codes to accommodate earth energies. |
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Artist of Glass and Light to Join Fulton Street Project The naming of James Carpenter as collaborating artist for the building of the Fulton Street Transit Center in Lower Manhattan is a measure of New York State's aspirations. |
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Toronto's ghettos move to the 'burbs Toronto's ghettos no longer exist primarily in its downtown core but have moved to the so-called inner suburbs where they have grown dramatically over the past 20 years, according to a report being released today that calls the phenomenon "deeply disturbing." |
Monday, April 5, 2004
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Our Sprawling, Supersize Utopia We're living in the age of the great dispersal. |
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Stymied by Politicians, Wal-Mart Turns to Voters As Wal-Mart continues its march across the American landscape, this Los Angeles suburb of 112,000 people is the latest testing ground for the company's exercise of political and marketing muscle. |
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The Transportation Bill Could Slim Us Down
The Congressional sponsors of the “Cheeseburger Protection Act” are probably right about the obesity epidemic: We shouldn’t be suing fast food marketers. Instead, we should prosecute the transportation engineers and suburban developers who have made it nearly impossible to walk in most neighborhoods built since World War II. |
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The £10bn rail crash
Britain has become: a country that has lost faith in its abil ity to design, make and build useful things; a country where the few who do still have that ability are underpaid, unrecognised, and unadmired. |
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There Goes the Neighborhood Why home prices are about to plummet--and take the recovery with them. |
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From the House of the Future to a house of today Striving to adapt the progressive ideas of the pre-war modern movement to the specific human needs of post-war reconstruction, Alison and Peter Smithson were among the most influential and controversial architects of the latter half of the twentieth century. |
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When Cities Looked Limitless
For almost a century the beautifully detailed lithographs known as city views were as sure a seller as the American art market has probably ever known. |
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Brick and Glass in New York Apartment Buildings The history of some changing uses of traditional materials. |
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The Valet You Don't Have To Tip The new first law of real estate: location, location, robot parking garage. |
Sunday, April 4, 2004
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The colour of architecture In many European countries we find that the authorities have become aware of the importance of colour in the landscape, of the local colour being part of the cultural heritage of the city, town or region. |
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United front Observers of Sauerbruch Hutton's colourful, sensuous architecture may be surprised by its town hall for Hennigsdorf just outside Berlin. This subtle building has a function well beyond its civic duties: it must heal old wounds and reunite the town. |
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Market for La Vila Joiosa, Alicante The idea is a shady space with a skin that is permeable to light, air and the bustle and noise of the street and an interior that allows activity while controlling and filtering the relation with the exterior. |
Saturday, April 3, 2004
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On the Road to Modern America A driving tour of modernist landmarks in the United States could in theory begin on almost any page of the road atlas. |
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The new pioneers of sprawl As Westerners pursue their own swaths of rural land, 'ranchettes' - and culture clashes - spread. |
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Boston Trailer Park Survives Urban Sprawl When Jackie Lundell first meets people, they don't believe her when she tells them where she lives: a waterfront home that rents for less than $1,000 a month in one of the most expensive cities in the country. |
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The condo goes green It's the home West Coast yuppies dream about over caramel macchiatos. |
Friday, April 2, 2004
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Few Bus Riders Penetrate Harbor Freeway Sound Barrier Few places in Los Angeles are lonelier than the series of concrete-and-tile bus stations on the Harbor Freeway that Caltrans built for roughly $25 million to accommodate commuters between San Pedro and downtown. |
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Factory Fresh: Interstately Homes The dream of a cutting-edge prefabricated modern house is inching closer to reality. A prefab from Austria has been pieced together in upstate New York. Another one, Glidehouse, is under construction and will soon be displayed in Menlo Park, Calif. Yet another, the LV, is already in production. |
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Is Open Space What Inspires L.A. Designers? Like contestants in a never-ending high school popularity contest, insecure Angelenos and jealous New Yorkers continue to fuel the century-old debate about which is better, L.A. or N.Y.? |
Thursday, April 1, 2004
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Rem Koolhaas OMA - Seattle Public Library The new Seattle Public Library, scheduled to open officially in May, will house the library's main collection of books, government publications, periodicals, audio visual materials and the technology to access and distribute information from the physical collection online. |
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OMA Beijing Books Building On China’s most prestigious boulevard, Beijing’s Chang An, prominent players of China express their status in a ten kilometer long strip of mysterious stately monoliths. |
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Relishing the joys of empty spaces This edition of Monthly Snapshots is dedicated to those rare, ethereal spaces that are completely devoid of human activity. |
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Bye Bye Big Box Under the influence of PPS, Wal-Mart abandons mega-stores in favor of locally-owned, downtown shops.
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Testing the Boundaries of Eminent Domain The government's power to seize private land for public use has historically been justified as benefiting the greater good. In Colonial America, that meant taking private land to build roads or government buildings. In the late 20th century, as cities cleared houses for shopping malls and factories, the "greater good" came to mean job creation and economic revitalization. |
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Elastic thinking Simon Conder's rubber-clad cottage shows the best way out of our housing crisis. |
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Buildings designed in cool shades of 'green' Step inside a new condominium at The Henry, an upscale residential tower in the chic heart of this city's flourishing downtown. |
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Strip Mall Of America Representatives from the North Dakota Department of Commerce attended a ribbon-cutting ceremony Saturday for the new Strip Mall Of America, the state's largest shopping center to date. |
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Skylon spire may return to London skyline An ambitious plan to recreate the Skylon, the glittering spaceship-like spearhead which once rose over London as a symbol of Britain's postwar resurgence, has been put to the South Bank Centre. |
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NASA Uses A "Sleuth" To Predict Urban Land Use Scientists used a computer-based decision support model loaded with NASA and commercial satellite images to simulate three policies affecting land use. |
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Edge-ucation What compels communities to build schools in the middle of nowhere? |
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The Life and Death of a Masterpiece What went wrong with a 1988 park by the late Dan Kiley, and what can we learn from its imminent demolition? |
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Bylaw drives joggers nuts Police train radar on speedy runners. Crackdown to help mating squirrels. |
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