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- New design guidance launched to transform the future of play
Play England, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF) and the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) have launched, for the first time in the England, detailed guidance for the design of children’s play spaces.
Free copies of the guide can be ordered by calling (+44) 0845 60 222 60 or click hereSOURCE: Landscape [...]
- HOK Sport has not tackled Olympic stadium problems, says Cabe - Building Design
Cabe has strongly criticised HOK Sport for failing to address concerns about the London 2012 main stadium design.
Cabe also raised concerns over the lack of integration of the Olympic venues in the wider landscape, calling for a “park-wide attitude” to create a holistic strategy.
Read more @ the SOURCE: Building Design(bdonline.co.uk): HOK Sport has not tackled [...]
- ‘Superblocks add to green space’ - The Jakarta Post
Public parks within superblocks run by private developers can alleviate the lack of green public space and help urban revitalization, an expert said Friday.
“The city administration needs to revitalize the city but doesn’t have the cash. So permitting private superblocks is a part of urban revitalization,” University of Indonesia economist Faisal Basri said at the [...]
- London offers its memorial to the 52 victims of 7/7 terrorism - Times Online
Ben Hoyle of the Times looks at the newly unvealed design for the 7/7 memorial
The design unveiled yesterday by the architects Carmody Groarke is on a more human scale than the American and Spanish projects. It consists of 52 steel columns, one for each innocent life lost, arranged in a clearing at the southeast [...]
- City Will Explore Broad Bike-Sharing Plan - NYTimes.com
The city took a tentative step this week toward fulfilling the dream of a certain kind of urban idealist, saying that it will explore the possibility of creating a bike-sharing program that could make hundreds or even thousands of bicycles available for public use.
“This is a really big deal,” said Wiley Norvell, a spokesman for [...]
- Auckland a city in need of ambition - NZ Herald
Auckland is failing to fulfil its potential and needs to be bidding for ambitious projects such as the 2016 Commonwealth Games, says Ludo Campbell-Reid, the city council’s urban design champion.
Campbell-Reid, who was brought to Auckland two years ago by then mayor Dick Hubbard to give the city a cohesive design framework, has spent a month [...]
- Lower Don Lands project receives sustainable development award
Waterfront Toronto, alongside Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, has been honoured for the sustainable design of its Lower Don Lands project.
The new development, one aspect of Waterfront Toronto’s 8000-hectare central waterfront transformation, recently received the 2008 Royal Architecture Institute of Canada’s (RAIC) Sustainable Development Award.
The award is designed to recognize the role urban design and architectural [...]
- Star architects bid to design new center for South Korean capital as 21st century model city - International Herald Tribune
An all-star group of international architects bidding for the chance to design a new urban center for the South Korean capital said Tuesday the vast site offered a rare chance to create a model for 21st century cities.
Five top architecture firms behind many of the world’s recent iconic structures are being given US$1 million each [...]
- Envisioning a world of $200-a-barrel oil - Los Angeles Times
“Throughout our history, we have grown on the assumption that energy costs would be low,” said Michael Woo, a former Los Angeles city councilman and a current member of the city Planning Commission. “Now that those assumptions are shifting, it changes assumptions about housing, cars and how cities grow.”
Push prices up fast enough, he said, [...]
- The Best U.S. Cities, by Design
The Best U.S. Cities, by DesignArchitectural firm RMJM Hillier weighed sustainability, awards, and both expert and residents’ opinions in its list of top 10 U.S. cities for designSee the BUSINESS WEEK SLIDESHOW OF top 10 US DESIGN cities
SOURCE: Business Week – The Best U.S. Cities, by Design.
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