Urbanism News
Monday, May 31, 2004
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Study: Driving longer means larger waistlines The amount of time people spend in their cars affects their weight more than their income, education, gender and ethnicity, researchers have found. |
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Massive urban renewal: Detroit's 21st-Century formula A stupendously large urban renewal area -- at 1,200 acres possibly the largest in U.S. history -- is being planned in this long-troubled city, the epitome of American urban abandonment. |
Saturday, May 29, 2004
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Made for Action For generations, the American dream has been luring us out to the suburbs — to a gadget-packed house on a big, roomy lot with a couple of late-model cars in the drive. Safe from the dirt, din, and crime of big cities, the suburbs would be good for us, we thought. |
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Bay Area Footpring 33 Times Too Large For Sustainability A new analysis of the Bay Area's ecological impact by Redefining Progress, done in conjunction with the Bay Area Alliance for Sustainable Communities, shows that the Bay Area relies on the equivalent of more than 146 million acres to sustain itself. This area is nearly the size of the states of California and Oregon combined. |
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China embraces sustainability one city at a time When China announced last November that it would impose strict new fuel-economy standards for small cars and minivans, it was only one sign that the world's most populated country is headed down a more sustainable path — while the United States moves in the other direction. |
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Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid. At least for the moment, ''The Day After Tomorrow'' -- 20th Century Fox's new movie about catastrophic climate change -- has reawakened public anxiety over global warming and broken through the thick crust of American denial. |
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Why cities need science and jazz Cities thrive on scientific discovery, and creative people head for culturally vibrant places. That’s why good science and a good jazz scene often go together. |
Friday, May 28, 2004
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Shanghai's rive gauche Real estate development is threatening the artist's colony that has sprung up along the banks of the Suzhou Creek. Worse still, it is threatening the old warehouses that line its banks. Now, two architecture professors are on a mission to save this slice of Shanghai's built history. |
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Facing Beijing's "big city syndrome" The symptoms of "big city syndrome" mainly include traffic congestion, severe environmental pollution, resource scarcity, packed housing, destruction of cultural relics and residential housing with humanistic implications, and the formidable difficulty in improving quality of life for the residents. All these problems currently faced by Beijing depict the "big city syndrome". |
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California Design Firm Chosen for Olympic Site in Queens They did not play the national anthem or drape the champion in red, white and blue, but there was plenty of other fanfare as city and state officials gathered yesterday in Long Island City, Queens, to announce the architect chosen to design the 2012 Olympic Village. |
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Watch me watch you People who live in fishbowl houses almost dare you to peer in. So go ahead, be nosy. They're cool with it. And guess what? They're peering back. |
Thursday, May 27, 2004
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London's Skyscrapers Gallery London's skyline is to be transformed over the next few years with a series of new eye-catching buildings. A new exhibition provides a sneak preview of the skyscrapers set to dominate the city's square mile in the years to come. |
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London celebrates its dramatic new skyline
A thicket of high buildings marks the City. |
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Hotel Habita - Polanco, Mexico City he architects converted a five-story 1950's apartment building, located on a commercial street lined with retail stores and office buildings, into a thirty-six room boutique hotel, with new services and amenities such as a swimming pool, gym, sauna, bar, and restaurant. |
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EuskoTren Headquarters
Zaha Hadid Architects has won the International Competition for the Design of the New EuskoTren Headquarters in Durango, Spain. |
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Van Could Take Photographs While Driving An odd-looking van sprouts 13 digital cameras that its builder wants to use to photograph 50 million buildings in the country while driving, taking pictures every 15 feet. |
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Design picked for 2012 Olympic villiage A design featuring angular, metallic-looking low-rise buildings sitting nestled on acres of sweeping parkland was chosen over four other designs for the proposed Olympic Village in Queens. |
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Committee Snubs Gehry Design Team Two less well-known groups are finalists for $1.2-billion project on downtown's Grand Ave. |
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Modular Glidehouse grew out of hunt for affordable housing The future of architecture rolled into Menlo Park a couple of weeks ago on the back of two trucks. |
Wednesday, May 26, 2004
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Architecture event: One Land, Two Systems Beyond the division lines in Israeli spatial planning. |
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Made in New York By July, when 70 Washington Street and its conjoined twin, 35 York Street, will begin to be converted into luxury apartments, the eclectic mix of industrial tenants that gave the building character for more than a century will be just a memory. |
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A Shimmering Facet for Lower Manhattan Add another transparent polymorph to downtown's future landscape. If blueprints can be believed, office towers, apartment houses, commuter rail terminals - and now, even a subway station - will shimmer luminously as they taper and soar. |
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NYTimes: Endangered Species: Quaint Towns. Green Hills. Vermont! A preservation group that identifies endangered historical places every year has decided that the entire state of Vermont is, historically speaking, under threat. |
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
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Chil chil.us examines Chicago's status as a global city. The current condition of the Chicago Megalopolis is revealed with maps, diagrams and statistics. The project charts comparative states of Chicago's land use, growth, population densities, energy/natural resources, infrastructural networks, economic/leisure activities, and photo-slices taken along prime travel-routes. |
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Cargo Karma We got what we asked for. |
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Sink or swim In times of flood, these houses rise to the occasion. |
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Sharp Centre for Design.Toronto, Ontario Approaching the Sharp Centre for Design at the Ontario College of Art & Design (OCAD) it's difficult to not feel shock at the sight of a black and white box with colored stilts. |
Friday, May 21, 2004
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The People's Freeway Reclaiming a concrete corridor to make way for the next -- and better -- Los Angeles |
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This issue will hit you where you live Reason magazine uses individualized data to give its subscribers a '1984'-style surprise. |
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Thinking inside the box Project turns an ugly cargo container into an elegant 'mobile dwelling unit'. |
Thursday, May 20, 2004
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Street Maps in Political Hues For proof that all politics is local, look no further than Fundrace.org, which follows the political money to your front door. While records of campaign contributions have long been available online, Fundrace has a twist: plug in any address and retrieve a list of all the donors in the neighborhood, the names of their favored candidates and the amount bestowed. |
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Jane Jacobs taught us to celebrate our cities. Her message has stood the test of time: What's old is good. There's a reason why Jane Jacobs, a layperson, has shaped our thinking about architecture and planning more than any architect or planner. It's that she taught us to open our eyes and, when necessary, question what we see. |
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The 195 million dollar scribble. The gallery shop at the Art Gallery of Ontario offers the usual evidence for the proposition that museums exist mainly as annexes to the merchandise out front, a sort of garage of theoretical originals for the reproductions on sale in every size and price range. Like popcorn and soft drinks at the movies, this is where the real money is made. |
Wednesday, May 19, 2004
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The End of Cheap Oil It's inevitable. But just how soon will the vital fuel become so scarce and expensive that we're forced to make hard choices about how we live? |
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Suburban Sprawl? That's So 1990's, Study Says A half-century of suburbanization paused in the late 1990's, even as public concern about suburban sprawl grew, according to a report on economic and demographic trends in 31 counties in and around New York City. |
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Reach for the Sky The only way is up: high-rise hits Britain, and this time they mean it. |
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Don’t You Be My Neighbor In the end, the same energy that draws us here, binds us to this place, is alternately creative and destructive, razing here, renovating there, and it’s all we can do to adapt. |
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Landowners, walkers face off in tragicomic struggle, British style An Englishman's home is his castle. So it has been said for 400 years, leaving few doubts that when it comes to domestic life in Britain, privacy and property are paramount. |
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
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Why Not a Park? Now that Larry Silverstein, the World Trade Center leaseholder, has lost his bid to double his insurance payout, it is not clear where the money to fulfill the master plan for ground zero will come from. The 1,776-foot-high Freedom Tower, which promises to become the tallest building in the world, is slated to begin construction this summer. But many of the other large office towers planned for the site may need to be scaled back; it is possible that they will not be built at all. The future of one of America's most significant public spaces has become unsettled. |
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The Greening of the City Even the most startling cultural and economic developments do not arise out of thin air. They are always built upon prior developments and upon a certain amount of serendipity and chance. And their consequences are unpredictable, even to their originators and the pioneers who believed in them and initiated them. After all, the first financially successful railroad in the world was an amusement ride in London. |
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Can America Go Public? Questions for Martha Schwartz - Interview by Deborah Solomon. You're an establishment figure -- an adjunct professor at Harvard Design School and the owner of a prominent firm -- but you've been called the wild child of landscape architecture. What, exactly, can landscape architects do besides plant hedges? |
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Without Walls Landscape architecture begins -- or does it end? -- with Wallace Stevens's poem ''Anecdote of the Jar.'' Here is the first stanza:
I placed a jar in Tennessee, |
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The Library That Puts on Fishnets and Hits the Disco At a dark hour, Seattle's new Central Library is a blazing chandelier to swing your dreams upon. If an American city can erect a civic project as brave as this one, the sun hasn't set on the West. In more than 30 years of writing about architecture, this is the most exciting new building it has been my honor to review. I could go on piling up superlatives like cars in a multiple collision, but take my word: there's going to be a whole lot of rubbernecking going on. |
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Shanghai's new heaven on earth From the rooftop restaurant, the Pudong skyline looks like Manhattan on acid. But on this side of the river, the sweep of the Bund, with its cupola and clock tower, has all the sturdy authority of an old world banking district. |
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The Anti-Olmsted Three blast furnaces loom over Landschaftspark Duisburg-Nord like rusting dragons, their flaming mouths silenced, their brown scaly skin slowly flaking away. The pipes that once water-cooled the pig-iron mills and siphoned off gases still snake and coil, but they are drained and lifeless. In 1985, as part of a wave of industrial shutdowns that changed the character of the Ruhr Valley, the Thyssen plant in Duisburg closed. The nightmarish hulks that remained -- almost mythic in their lurid grandeur -- stood stranded, presumed doomed. The notion that they would come back to life in the quintessential park of the early 21st century seemed about as probable as sighting a pterosaur in flight overhead. |
Monday, May 17, 2004
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Life after carbuncles Twenty years ago today, Prince Charles denounced modern architecture. Did he make any difference? |
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Avant-garde architect reinvents Seattle's new library "Koolhaas is something," Gehry said. "His ideas. He's beyond what I'm doing. He's really something." |
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An Iconoclastic Architect Turns Theory Into Practice After rising fast to fame in the 1980's when his firm, Morphosis, helped define the front edge of the Los Angeles architecture boom, Thom Mayne largely slipped from view. First came a split from a longtime partner and a deliberate shift from design grandstanding, followed by a painstakingly slow recovery from projects canceled when the Asian economy stalled. |
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A plan to sell rotting St. Petersburg palaces The splendid, rotting Palace of Grand Duke Alexei might be charitably called a fixer-upper, long overdue for its first renovation since well before the 1917 Russian Revolution. So, too, are the fire-gutted Sheremetyev Mansion along St. Petersburg's prestigious riverside embankment and the historic barracks in nearby Kronstadt, where Bolsheviks once bloodily suppressed an uprising. |
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An Eden Above the City An abandoned overhead railway in Manhattan is an eyesore to many. But others see untapped potential in the rare open space. |
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Shopworn Like the Valley Girls who made it famous, the suburban mall is now on the wrong side of forty. |
Sunday, May 16, 2004
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Is the city doomed? When a London parish was hit by cholera in 1854, a physician named John Snow found not only a way to bring it instantly under control, but also a radical but simple technique for identifying the causes of epidemic disease. |
Saturday, May 15, 2004
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Skyscrapers in Cyberspace: Maps and History Online In the latest example of how museums are finding innovative ways to make their collections accessible on the Internet, the Skyscraper Museum has put online more than 2,000 documents about historic New York buildings by connecting the digitized images to an interactive map of Manhattan. |
Friday, May 14, 2004
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Curbing global warming This year Beijingers had to shed their warm winter woollies and switch to skirts and short-sleeve t-shirts in early April. |
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Planners Consider a Riverfront Without the F.D.R. Drive As Boston dismantles its Central Artery, the elevated roadway that stood forbiddingly between downtown and the waterfront, New York City officials are asking whether it is time to take down the Franklin D. Roosevelt Drive, the elevated roadway that stands forbiddingly between downtown and the waterfront. |
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Afraid of the dark Jane Jacobs has dedicated her career to bolstering the cities of North America. Now the world's leading urban philosopher distressed by 'ominous signs of decay.' At first glance, her new book, Dark Age Ahead: Caution, reads like a doomsday prophecy. |
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Peregrines thrive amid high-rises For the first time in 70 years -- maybe longer -- peregrine falcons have successfully nested on a San Francisco building: the PG&E headquarters at Beale and Mission, to be precise. |
Thursday, May 13, 2004
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Archigram won. But what happened to the groove? Frankly, I expected more kipper ties. Maybe a sit-in. But no. The party opening the Archigram exhibition at London’s bleached-white, thoroughly un-Archigram Design Museum was a particularly noughties take on the 60s, all business cards, air kissing and early nights, sadly lacking in Austin Powers period details. The decade’s survivors get their kicks these days not from dropping acid, but oysters and champers till midnight. Just like their bourgeois parents did. What happened to the groove, man? It wasn’t meant to be like this. |
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Urban Atmospheres/Urban Probes Mobile communications and computing devices are changing the ways we behave in cities too rapidly for traditional research and development methodologies to keep pace. |
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Biblioteca degli Alberi - Giardini di Porta Nuova The Inside Outside Team have been selected as the winners of the international competition for the planning of the "Giardini di Porta Nuova", a 100,000 square meter park, the first step in a wider-ranging project for construction of a City of Fashion and an Institutional Campus. |
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Selling Condomania Extraordinary! Entitled! Exclusive! That’s how Vancouver peddled density. |
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Diary of an urban chicken-keeper Is it really possible for a city dweller to create a rustic idyll in their back garden? Deborah Ross decided to try out poultry farming - with the help of a designer coop and two birds named J-Lo and Beyoncé. |
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Poverty in UK cities Findings published this month in a report on urban regeneration practice commissioned by construction and management consultants Turner & Townsend highlight the need for greater co-ordination of government regeneration policy and the urban design agenda in order to avoid simply recycling poverty in UK cities. |
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Enough is ... enough Last summer, I handed a young architecture intern a sketch to be drafted on the computer. It was a site plan for an agricultural research facility comprising 130 acres, about 80 acres of which were to remain open farmland. |
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Metropolis Next Generation Winner
As a freeway expands, it gulps space, gobbling up town and country. But an elevated freeway—disassembled—is surprisingly compact. Here in this salvage yard outside Boston, one particular former freeway lies in neat piles. |
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Cities and Songs Jane Jacobs, the matchless analyst of all things urban, returned to New York the other day and looked around her. |
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Building for the future The central complaint of the polemical new book Why is Construction so Backward?, by forecaster James Woudhuysen and architect Ian Abley, is that construction policy and the construction industry are shackled by narrow thinking. |
Wednesday, May 12, 2004
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2004 Governor General’s Medals in Architecture The Governor General’s Medals in Architecture recognize outstanding achievement in recently built projects by Canadian architects. |
Tuesday, May 11, 2004
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Fantasy Architecture: the seductive lure of the unbuilt For every building that is ever built, for every approved masterplan or feasibility study, for every competition win, there are dozens of other designs lurking in the shadows. The ones that should have been built but weren't. The hopeful contenders that never got to first base. And the ones that were only ever meant to exist on paper, or on-screen, or as models. Some of the best architecture is unbuilt. |
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Granholm’s Urban Therapy Cautiously at first, grant program steps toward big investment shift to “Cool Cities.” |
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Independent artists to change face of Chinese cities The Eastern German Bauhaus architects who designed Beijing's no. 798 electronics factory in 1950 may have never imagined their work would become a citadel for China's independent artists half a century later. |
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Architects vie to remake Paris's 1970s monstrosity Arguably the biggest architectural error ever perpetrated on one the world's most beautiful cities, Le Forum des Halles, is to be revamped - and the plans are exciting as much controversy as its construction 30 years ago. |
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Welcome to our lair Herzog and de Meuron's new Forum building in Barcelona is worthy of the sleekest Bond villain. |
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An ill wind? It was supposed to be a green solution to the environmental crisis. But Britain's 'wind rush' - the world's fastest expansion of renewable energy - has split the green lobby and whipped up a storm of protest from a powerful coalition of countryside groups. So are wind farms the answer to global warming - or merely a blight on the landscape? |
Monday, May 10, 2004
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Outside the box Does innovative lab architecture lead to more innovative science? |
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World's first skyscraper museum opens The world's first museum devoted to the architecture and mythology of the skyscraper, America's most creative contribution to world architecture, has opened in lower Manhattan where construction of buildings of 12 stories began the high-rise trend nearly 130 years ago. |
Saturday, May 8, 2004
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What the future holds for Beijing's architecture You are in a city like no other on earth. Beijing is not the New York of China, nor the London of northeast Asia, nor the Mexico City of the Orient. Within a few years it may resemble the set of Blade Runner or Fritz Lang's Metropolis more than any of those places. |
Friday, May 7, 2004
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So long, civilization Jane Jacobs looks at what modern life has done to cities, farms and economies, and she doesn't like what she sees. |
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Dutch home builders try a new tactic against rising tides This low-lying land has a new weapon in its never-ending battle with the tides: amphibian houses. |
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The Dubliners For architects with ambition the ticket from Ireland was often one way. Now a civic building boom is giving young practices the chance to bring their overseas experience home. |
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City, light and art The genesis of the nocturnal townscape. Both in the history of architectural theory and in the iconography of the townscape, artificial light is the last subject of all. With the euphoria of electrification, nightscapes experienced a brief black-and-white boom in the early modernist period; it is only since the 1990s that they have been experiencing a renascence in colour. |
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Lyon: Parc de Gerland, the chromatic garden The lighting for Parc de Gerland was realised within the framework of the rehabilitation and transformation into an urban park of the former Gerland industrial site in Lyon. |
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What's in a Name? Debunking the stigma of "project housing", Olson Sundberg Kundig Allen Architects brings design parity to a low-income development in Seattle. |
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End to ends I wonder, in a world where many, many small groups of people must coexist with each other, if it couldn't be the case that a degree of systematization, applied with care, actually provides for greater diversity overall? I'm thinking of signage programs, or protocols for the design of thoroughfares: the provisions of a relatively "stupid" end-to-end urbanity, just enough and no more. |
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The Blog Generation Takes Up Its Trowels As the manager of an indie-rock band fronted by an accordion player, Camille Acey, 23, is used to uphill battles. So when Ms. Acey and the band, Movers and Shakers, decided to build a "rock garden" on the roof of a loft building in Long Island City, Queens, they solved the obvious problem with 175 pounds of neutral-tone buttons from a company that donates surplus materials to artists. |
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The new urban connection It sounds like a Greepeace manifesto for living. "Healthy, non-polluting buildings with cross breezes, re-cycled rainwater, thermal cooling systems and a rooftop garden for meditation." In fact it's the wish list - and the new reality - for a second generation of apartment dwellers. Their thirst for high-rise living is not satisfied with cookie-cutter apartments, little opportunity to express their individuality and scant consideration for the environment at large. |
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Report on sustainable urban design welcomed The Waterford Greens are hoping to raise public awareness of the recently published report by the EU working group on sustainable urban design. |
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New revolution planned for 'belly' of Paris "Ugly! Dilapidated! A failure!" This is the verbatim description of Les Halles, the heart of Paris, from one of the men charged with changing it. |
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The Taming of the Shed , Jennifer Sigler was visiting her parents in Baltimore when her husband, Wim Kloosterboer, a Dutch architect, called one morning to say he had found the house of their dreams: an old concrete-block utility shed sitting on a dike on the outskirts of this port city. |
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Homes that take the homeless as they are Tent City was ultimately torn down, but it has left a legacy of innovative design. |
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Cyclocomputers are nice, but the total freedom of two wheels is all I need Perhaps that is the true value of the bicycle. Not the $5 for that second-hand model, or the Norco 6 at $2,850, but the sense of being totally free as you head out, destinations unknown. |
Thursday, May 6, 2004
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Learning from Las Vegas: The Book That (Still) Takes My Breath Away Why did its authors hate the design of this book so much? |
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Fluid Vehicle An elongated organic bus station, constructed completely of synthetic materials, was developed according to plans drawn up jointly by the Rotterdam architect Maurice Nio and VHP, which also has its offices in Rotterdam. |
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Streets for People Too One of the most intriguing design innovations of the last 20 years has been the "shared street" or integration concept for residential streets. The core idea is that the street is properly a physical and social part of the living environment, to be used simultaneously for vehicular movement, social contacts, and civic activities. |
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Truman Show towns coming to Britain The government today defended its promotion of urban design inspired by Seaside, the model new town in Florida which formed the backdrop to the popular satirical film The Truman Show. |
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Frank Gehry's Geek Palace It's eye-popping! It's brand-building! It's a boundary-busting intellectual free trade zone! Inside the research center that could remake MIT, if they can just get those damn researchers in line. |
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A view of urban sprawl whose time has passed Some of Randal O'Toole's best friends live in cities. He doesn't hold that against them, of course. But, well, you know about cities, especially the more highly developed ones. They make it hard on people because the backyards are so small, and let's not even talk about how they restrict the innate human desire to hop in the car every morning and drive. |
Wednesday, May 5, 2004
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I Am the Uncool Hunter Do “factory-like” subdivisions spell the end of the loft as a meaningul cultural symbol? |
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Place branding Many think a country, place or region constitutes a brand, and not a few countries are currently working on strategies to spruce up their brand images. |
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UCP Warns of Sprawl Impact on People With Disabilities "While sprawl wears down anyone's sense of community, it can destroy it for people with disabilities," says Linda Potter, UCP executive director. "With few nearby places to go and no good way to get there, the world outside can be un-navigable and unavailable. Full participation in our community is impossible if we can't get to it or around it." |
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In Austin, Paving a Way Past Invisible Tollbooths ALL the big social movements can be summed up on a T-shirt: "No taxation without representation"; "Liberté, egalité, fraternité"; "Make love, not war." Now there's one more: "Keep Wi-Fi Free." [via] |
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The Great Mall of China Jon Jerde may be the world's most innovative—and eccentric—designer of retail spaces. But changing the way China shops is proving tougher than he'd dreamed. |
Tuesday, May 4, 2004
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Jewels on the horizon New midtown skyscrapers for Hearst and The Times aim to rise above the ordinary. |
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Taking on big issues, not just buildings In Matthew Jelacic's world, there are no wealthy clients asking him to design million-dollar houses. Jelacic's clients are people who have lost everything: refugees. |
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Swiss firm wins Hagar Qim heritage park design contest The winner of the international competition for the design of the Mnajdra and Hagar Qim Heritage Park is a Swiss architectural firm, whose plans will have minimal impact on the site, according to architect Vincent Cassar, vice-chairman of the international jury. |
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USGS Graphically Illustrates Urban Growth In America Farmlands, wetlands, forests and deserts that composed the American landscape in the early 20th century have frequently been transformed during the past 30 years into mushrooming metropolitan areas as urbanization spreads across the country. Many metropolitan areas in the United States are growing at extraordinary rates. |
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Why phones are replacing cars “PARKS beautifully”, boasts an advertising hoarding for the XDA II, above a glimpse of its sleek silver lines. “Responsive to every turn”, declares another poster. Yet these ads, seen recently in London, are selling not a car, but an advanced kind of mobile phone. Maybe that should not be a surprise. Using automotive imagery to sell a handset makes a lot of sense for, in many respects, mobile phones are replacing cars. |
Monday, May 3, 2004
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The Doomslayer When a respected New Urbanist like Jane Jacobs issues an ominous warning that we're headed for a new dark age - a civilizational collapse on the scale of the Roman decline - one stands up and takes notice. |
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Wal-Mart uses politics to promote expansions Retailer champions voter drives to curb laws it doesn't favor. |
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Pedestrian Paradise One of the local characters in the small city where I grew up was Judge Green. A giant man, probably 6 feet 7, he was widely admired around town, in part because he had been star of the only Urbana High School team ever to make it to the championship game of the Illinois state basketball tournament. I remember him as a cheerful man who greeted everyone with a smile. But he had one trait that made him seem a bit peculiar: He walked to work every day. If you drove down Broadway Avenue at certain hours, you couldn't miss his towering figure striding along the sidewalk. |
Saturday, May 1, 2004
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In for a penny Being English, we don't like living with one another, unless we hail from other countries and cultures where family life is still all but sacred, and inescapable. |
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IKEA claimed another 10,000 American lifestyles IKEA, the rapidly growing Swedish retailer of inexpensive home furnishings, claimed another 10,000 American lifestyles in 2003, according to a report released Tuesday by the Center for Interior Design Control. |
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The Siebel Center is a 225,000-square-foot computer. If the building detects a stranger -- perhaps based on his passing a surveillance camera several times -- a computerized voice could ask questions and guide him to a destination. |
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Building loftier expectations for design The difference in structure between the words "urban" and "urbane" is just one silent vowel that shifts the stress and duration of another. |
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Open architecture does not have to be sacrificed in this age of security jitters.
Transparent Curtain Walls Perform Well in Blast Tests. |
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Green Light Could solar power become the Bay Area's answer to overpriced electricity? |
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Island uses wind, hydrogen to go green Norwegian experiment aims to solve reliability issue. |
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