By Damian Holmes, on August 25th, 2010
Five additional acres of Brooklyn Bridge Park have been opened to the public, including the first 2,000 feet of the park’s greenway, a 30-foot wide, scenic bikeway and walkway along the East River shoreline. The first section of the new greenway starts at the park entrance at Old Fulton Street and ends at the foot [...]
By Damian Holmes, on August 17th, 2010
PWP TEAM – View from Courthouse to River
Today the designs from the five finalists of the The City + The River + The Arch design competition were revealed to the public at the Gateway Arch Visitors Center with the Design Team Leaders set to present their designs on August 26. The winning team will be [...]
By Damian Holmes, on August 4th, 2010
SOURCE: Flickr – By celesteh (Les Hutchins)
Recently London’s newest public transport system went live with 5000 bikes available with more than 12,000 members signed up to use the scheme, with over 6000 keys activated. Londoners using the scheme can from today take a cycle from one of 315 docking stations based every 300m or so throughout [...]
By Damian Holmes, on July 29th, 2010
Photo by Daniel Avila Source: NYC Dept. Parks & Recreation
On July 27, Mayor Michael Bloomberg and architect David Rockwell opened Imagination Playground at Burling Slip, an innovative playspace conceived and designed pro-bono by Mr. Rockwell to encourage child-directed, unstructured free play. With a focus on loose parts, Imagination Playground offers a changing array of [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 24th, 2010
Field Operations Model
James Corner’s Field Operations has won the International Urban Design Competition for Qianhai area, within Nanshan District of Shenzhen, China. The design divides the 18.04 square kilometre(approx. 7 sq .miles) area into easily manageable districts with unique architectural typologies and functions. Field Operations won the competition due to intensive compact and diverse design [...]
By Damian Holmes, on June 18th, 2010
Arch Daily recently posted this fantastic video by Vandkunsten (in conjunction with Hausenberg) of Design Sustainable Cities such as Malmö, Sweden, Kløvermarken and Greve in Denmark.
masterplanning animation from Vandkunsten on Vimeo.
Thankfully spotted at the SOURCE: Arch Daily – Sustainable Cities. Arch Daily is a great resource for Daily Architecture News.
By Damian Holmes, on June 13th, 2010
Urban design and architectural excellence play an important role in maintaining and enhancing the quality of life in Canadian cities.
The Royal Architectural Institute of Canada, the Canadian Institute of Planners and the Canadian Society of Landscape Architects in cooperation with Canadian municipalities, wish to promote public and private awareness of that role.
Recently the award winners [...]
By Damian Holmes, on May 5th, 2010
AECOM has launched for its second year, an open student ideas competition for 2010 – Urban SOS.
The competition seeks to engage students in the design, planning, architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, engineering, environmental and related fields, with the urban conditions that are now facing the majority of the world’s population.
This year, AECOM are exploring the [...]