3 hours ago by Peter Simek

We’ve wondered before in this space about what we need downtown, and my old online haunt once ran a piece with a similar mental exercise. It always struck me that many of the small ideas – bookshops, cafes, grocery stores, laundry – would follow if one big idea was brought into the downtown mix: a u ...

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6 hours ago by karl.whitney

Just back from Berlin, where I wandered around staring goggle-eyed at the truly strange landscape of meticulously reconstructed 18th Century buildings and the postwar apartment blocks that line the streets of both East and West. Because I spent a day at a conference in the Schloss Charlottenburg, I ...

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10 hours ago by Jeroen Beekmans

“Increasingly, media has become a global business, in which multinational media conglomerates have their branches all over the world, but show a strong tendency to cluster their headquarters and main production facilities in a highly selective group of ‘global media cities’.” As I explained previous ...

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12 hours ago by admin

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15 hours ago by Scott

Architect student at Pratt who wish to enter landscape architecture? The Transformation of Virginia, 1740-1790 (Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia) $19.54 In this Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Rhys Isaac describes and analyzes the drama ...

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19 hours ago by Off Modern

Architecture exists, or more correctly it is design to exist, which is why it is interesting when an architectural design is never realised and is instead left to float unsuspended through history. An exemplar of this is Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, which exists now as a mo ...

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1 day ago by aandh

Rochester, New York. Photo from Wiki. What better way to get to know a new home place than to imagine it as a case study for examining the next city? Here we are in our new neighborhood, and in between fresh paint, endless trips to the hardware store, and nearly daily (but very enjoyable) snow shove ...

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1 day ago by John Massengale

Quoting myself: One century ago, technology was threatening Paris with changes that already had them talking about the "Manhattanization" of Paris. Elevators and steel frames made it possible to build higher than before, railroads, subways and buses changed the concept of the neighborhood, the elect ...

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1 day ago by Beata Bujalska

The US House of Representatives passed a jobs bill yesterday that will affect transportation spending significantly – at least for the next year. First, the bill will provide $36 billion for roads and rails if signed into law as it stands currently, Second, it will extend the current transportation ...

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1 day ago by John Massengale

The general public has never forgotten that the purpose of architecture and planning is to design beautiful buildings and places that offer joy in utility, or that the purpose of historic preservation is to preserve them — not as artifacts in a museum but as living examples of the way architects and ...

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