- How the Olympics Destroy Cities
- I’m a designer. Use me better –
All these climate change issues look like design problems to me.
- The Pompidou Centre- history and legacy
- Solutions in transit: Google Transit
- San Francisco’s Wright & FLLW in Florida
- Re-imagination of the concrete masonry unit: 12BLOCKS
Tag: links
Tuesday Links
- The other end of infinity: Donald Judd’s architecture in Marfa
- Mapping Manhattan as it was 400 years ago: Mapping Mannahatta & The Mannahatta Project
- Classic 1982 Debate Between Christopher Alexander and Peter Eisenman; the video is out there somewhere waiting to be digitized
- Building on the past: Peter Zumthor’s new art museum in Cologne
- Dispatches from the Super-Versailles
Thursday’s Back in Town, links
Hump-day Links
- Loving the Brutalist Architecture Flickr Pool
- Check out the ENYA 2008 Biannual Ideas Competition at the South Street Seaport
- Interesting – Clearwater, Fla.: Scientology Stronghold – look to see more of this in an upcoming article about orthodox space
- Wired has a huge four part series on Bus Rapid Transit: Part 1: What Is Bus Rapid Transit?, Part 2: BRT Slashes Subway Project, Part 3: Crowded or Not Crowded Enough, & Part 4: Rail Keeps Its Reputation
- Streetcar bumps into federal bias for buses
Tuesday Links (don’t tell anyone!)
- Noted without comment: Notes on Becoming a Famous Achitect
- Rem Koolhaas: What Ever Happened to Urbanism?
- Why we love sounds of the city jungle
- Jane Jacobs, Foe of Plans and Friend of City Life
- The Municipal Art Society and the Rockefeller Foundation present Jane Jacobs and the Future of New York
- The Morning News interview with Richard Ross on the Architecture of Authority
- On Google: Workingman’s Paradise
- The Anti-Fun Palace: APEC Fence, Sydney lockdown
Sunday Links
- Seven block’s on 9th Avenue in NYC’s Chelsea neighborhood are getting protected bike lanes – here’s Streetsblog take: NYC Gets Its First-Ever Physically-Separated Bike Path
- Sex and Urbanity: Sex in the Park, and Its Sneaky Spectators
- Growing Cooler: The Evidence on Urban Development and Climate Change
- Don’t miss Performance Z-A: a Pavilion and 26 Days of Events at Storefront
- Oldie-but-goodie: I Luv Helvetica
Links are a good distraction from strikes
Tueday, after a long weekend, Links
- Architects want to move closer to the centers of power
- Torre Bicentenario in Mexico City by OMA
- Next in Green Building: Water Walls
- Tower to the People: A campaign to reopen the Post Office Tower to the public
- Polish builders create topsy-turvy house
- A Green Zone arrives in Sydney: Caged Politicians and the Lo-Fi-ing of Sydney; Great, the week I plan to visit Sydney, the whole city will be shutting down
- Sydney must be on my mind: The View – or –
On seeing A Proper Skyline for the first time
Friday is a good day for Links
- Yes, billboard houses are cool.
- High Water Line is a public artwork on the New York city waterfront designed to create an immediate visual and local understanding of the affects of climate change. I will be marking the 10-feet above sea level line by drawing a blue chalk line and installing illuminated beacons in parks.
- Installation: Convertible City
- Your house in a box, I blame Justin and Ikea
- L.A. Obscura: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman
- LeCorbusier and the Radiant City Contra True Urbanity and the Earth
- Floating City
Wednesday loves links more than Monday
- After Katrina, A Lonely Homecoming
Today, nearly two years after the storm, 11 of 14 properties on the block stand vacant, and in interviews, all but one of those who left indicated they have no intention of returning. Far from rising from the devastation of Katrina, this slice of St. Bernard Parish remains a desolate and depressing place.
- Los Angeles’s Development Has Many Centers
A trend of dense downtown development in Los Angeles has some calling the city’s new urban growth pattern a move towards “Manhattanization”. But Bill Fulton argues that the focus isn’t on just one area, but many transit-oriented “centers”.
- VEGETABLES AND CONCRETE: Urban gardeners are turning vacant lots into profitable produce plots
- Rebirth Of Cincinnati’s Historic Over-the-Rhine Neighborhood
Cincinnati’s historic Over-the-Rhine neighborhood is seeing levels of investment and activity that haven’t been seen there for many, many years. The largest collection of Italianate architecture in the U.S. is finally starting to see new life.
- Southeast Queens Is Split Over Makeover Proposal
- Shanghai is Building The World’s Largest Urban Rail Transit System
- Renderings of Guangzhou Twin Towers – in Chinese, so you have to guess which architect goes with which building (can you spot Rem’s building?)