Urbanism News
Friday, June 27, 2003
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A Wade on the Wild Side T'S 'The Matrix,' only it isn't black," said a woman in glasses with plastic zebra frames, sipping a cocktail Tuesday evening at a party for Light-Wing, the new outdoor installation at P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, Queens. At sunset, colored spotlights went on and the metal mesh canopy began to shine like a flame-colored cloud. |
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Design without constraint Sarasota has embraced its modernist heritage (the "Sarasota School" of the postwar period) in recent years, but 19 members of the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects are showing that maybe the time has come to look forward. |
Thursday, June 26, 2003
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Just Build it In the Rural Studio, students of Auburn University plan and build single-family houses, community centers, churches or sports grounds for underpriveleged inhabitants of Hale County. They use donated and recycled materials such as railroad sleepers, corrugated cardboard, colored bottles or balls of hay. |
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Chicago Parking Garage Grounded upon sustainable strategies in both form and program, this entry alleviates traffic as it symbolically addresses Chicago's urgent need for new, creative solutions to congestion in the Central Area Plan. |
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Propaganda
It’s here again. Scoffed at by those not featured, embraced by trendy clients and architecture’s taste police. Probably the least read Dutch best-seller: the Yearbook. |
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Suprises Await Riders at New Bart Stations
Transit stations are, well, transit stations, but the architects who brought you the new BART extension to San Francisco International Airport have managed to add an unexpected flourish or two along the way. |
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Working in the 'Taboo Landscape' "These affluent students are working their butts off in order to impress and win the respect of the poorest people in America," said Samuel Mockbee, the late architect and MacArthur "genius" grant recipient. Mockbee also built Auburn University's Rural Studio in Hale County, Alabama. |
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New Urbanity in Montréal Montréal, Québec is a North American city with European flair and a crossroads of economic, cultural, and scientific influences. The festive city hosts four major universities, several research centers, and many cultural and sporting events. It is a leading North American convention venue. Reflecting this diversity, Montréal's architecture and urban development represent both new and traditional economic forces. |
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Greening Rooftops Green roofs — topped with soil and living plants — have well known benefits to the buildings beneath them. They provide thermal and sound insulation and can prolong roof life. They also offer healthful benefits to their urban surroundings. |
Wednesday, June 25, 2003
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The Town Square as Billboard This property for rent. That's what an increasing number of strapped municipalities are proclaiming to Madison Avenue as they make available for advertising, marketing and promotional purposes an expanding range of public places — whether zoos, parks and train stations, or museums, piers and beaches. |
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Broken Windows to the Past For a new breed of explorer, a 'Danger — No Trespassing' sign is an invitation to history and adventure in cities' abandoned buildings. |
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Vertical Shift Towering ambitions destined to bring Tokyo to new highs and lows. |
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Marina’s architect known for innovation Steven Holl has taken on a new challenge with Solidere waterfront. |
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Museum with a view New Acropolis Museum architect Bernard Tschumi speaks to Greece Now about his Parthenon 'glass house'.
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Being Miuccia Every piece of clothing shapes your body but also the space around you, the emptiness around you. This raincoat, from our 2002 winter collection, plays off that divide. It's transparent, but when it gets wet - from rain or perspiration - it becomes opaque. So you have the space of the body and then also this outer space outside the clothes: it changes the relationship between what's inside and outside. |
Monday, June 23, 2003
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Urban Experiment Revisited After 15 Years, Planners Sharpen Their Vision of Kentlands. |
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The old boy from Brazil At 96, Oscar Niemeyer, the man who built Brasilia, is still fizzing with ideas. |
Sunday, June 22, 2003
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Hunt for trailblazing homes Fifty innovative schemes have been shortlisted for this year's Housing Design Awards. |
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Aesthetics of a Building Market More and more young artists are becoming involved in design, architecture and public spaces. |
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Kennedy Expressway Green Corridor Ralph Johnson, of the Chicago-based firm Perkins & Will was commissioned by the Chicago Architecture Foundation to participate in their exhibit Invisible City, where Johnson and two other Chicago architects (Brad Lynch of Brininstool + Lynch and Joe Valerio of Valerio Dewalt Train) created designs in response to three different city master plans. Johnson chose the Central Area Plan and responded with the Kennedy Expressway Green Corridor |
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roppongi hills, tokyo
The largest city redevelopment in japan, called 'roppongi hills' opened recently, at the center of tokyo. |
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Garden Shed as Architectural Assignment
Located on the fringes of all large towns in the Netherlands are allotment gardens containing small plots where people have a shed or summerhouse and where they grow flowers and vegetables in a park setting. Many people move into their house early in the summer season and only move out when the season draws to a close. |
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The New Standard
Sometimes it just happens, out of the blue. You’re sitting there unsuspectingly reading a newspaper article that’s got nothing to do with architecture or urban design, and you read a sentence, a sequence of words pleasantly arranged, and bits of the puzzle suddenly fall into place. |
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Providence Reclaims Rivers During the past decade, Providence, Rhode Island has worked to incorporate its past into its future. Concentrated efforts to restore historic buildings, unearth "buried" rivers, and redesign the public realm have revitalized the downtown area. Central to this rebirth is Waterplace Park, a walkable and attractive urban landscape. |
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Building Tall Since the 1980s, architects of tall buildings have sought variety in geometric massing and silhouette, coupled sometimes with a striving for height for its own sake and not just as a way of increasing floor area on a restricted site. |
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LEED Platinum at UCSB It is fitting that one of the first buildings to be certified by the U.S. Green Building Council for achieving the "platinum" LEED status is a school dedicated to researching environmental issues, training research scientists and professionals, and identifying and solving environmental problems. |
Saturday, June 21, 2003
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Blond Ambition on Red Brick The architect Richard Meier has added a pair of glass towers with loftlike apartments to the low-rise West Village landscape. Buyers include Calvin Klein and Nicole Kidman. |
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Lessons from Lotus Land It's not just gorgeous scenery that makes Vancouver's waterfront so much more beautiful than Toronto's. |
Wednesday, June 18, 2003
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Zaha Hadid brings subtlety to Cincinnati. Not something it's used to. Zaha Hadid's designs used to be considered unbuildable, by people who knew nothing about architecture. |
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Modern classics are not the real deal When Alvin Holm surveys the modern metropolis, he doesn't like the view. "There's hardly a city in the country that doesn't look like half of it is missing," he says. "You see a few nice old buildings rising like tombstones over acres of parking." Milwaukee, he says, is no exception. |
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Can Old Malls Be Taught New Tricks? Thw Valley Plaza Mall in North Hollywood, Calif., was once the premier shopping center in this region. Built in 1947, it was only the second mall in greater Los Angeles, and it was among the first malls in the nation to be designed as a unified entity. |
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Bad design costs no more Here's what I know (so far) from witnessing this country's fascination with home improvement and home makeover television shows: No. 1: Most Americans have no taste, no style, no appreciation of design, no understanding of architecture and no common sense. |
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Making TODs Work: Lessons from Portland's Orenco Station A project manager gives a real-world account of the successes and failures of one of the nation's most closely watched new transit-oriented communities, and its role in the regional growth management strategy. |
Tuesday, June 17, 2003
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Cinque Terre's Enviable Urban Plan We'd wager that if you put together a panel of the finest urban planning minds from universities around the world, and they distilled the criteria of the ultimate utopian urban plan, you would find that it had already been realized in Italy's Cinque Terre. Hear me out. If I'm wrong, email me your arguments. |
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Does It Say L.A.? Edgy new building could become Los Angeles icon. |
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Lost in Space As retailers shut stores, empty retail space Is problem for some communities. |
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The shop of things to come Herzog and de Meuron's new Prada store in Tokyo marks a groundbreaking style of building. |
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Graceful Growth in Vancouver Clearly defined, strictly enforced goals key to city's expansion.
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House rules The way we live today could have been pokey and dreary, had it not been for two very special buildings. |
Monday, June 16, 2003
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Testing Urbanism Welcome to the new urbanism.org - as you can see it is in development... please stand by |
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