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- Foster + Partners selected as architects for New Central Library in The New York Public Library’s historic Fifth Avenue building
The new central library will serve users of all ages and will feature expansive new reading rooms with open shelf circulating collections overlooking Bryant Park. After nearly 40 years in which it has served exclusively as a research library, the historic building will feature extensive circulating collections, including those moved from the nearby Mid-Manhattan Branch.
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- Dow Hyperlast launches VERDISEAL™ - the Assured Green Roof Waterproofing System
Problems with roof garden water leakage, root damage and installation can be overcome with the introduction of Dow Hyperlast’s VERDISEAL™.
VERDISEAL is a verdant roof membrane waterproofing system that balances economic high performance with flexibility in installation and use. VERDISEAL can be easily applied to any shape of roof or balcony, providing a long-lasting, reliable seal, [...]
- Architecture Billings Index Falls More than Six Points - AIA
Washington, D.C., October 22, 2008 — Following three consecutive months of signs of greater stability in design activity, the Architecture Billings Index (ABI) fell precipitously, dropping more than six points. As a leading economic indicator of construction activity, the ABI shows an approximate nine to twelve month lag time between architecture billings and construction spending. [...]
- Compost In The Mix For Storm Water Management :: BioCycle, Advancing Composting, Organics Recycling & Renewable Energy
Projects in Georgia highlight the use of compost in the engineered soil matrix for bioretention cells, which sustainably manage storm water runoff.
read more @ the SOURCE: Biocycle(jgpress.com) – Compost In The Mix For Storm Water Management :: BioCycle, Advancing Composting, Organics Recycling & Renewable Energy.
- Lab report examines new ideas for parks, public landscapes - ASU News
Flying into Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, you become powerfully aware of a suburban landscape dominated by housing subdivisions, by single-family houses with large yards and private pools. You will also see, interspersed throughout the vast expanse of residential tracts, a scattering of public parks and preserves. But what role do these public landscapes play in [...]
- Light-rail stations reflect neighborhoods - azcentral.com
Each of Metro light rail’s 28 starter line stations has a unique design, with special efforts taken to reflect the neighborhoods where stations are located.
read more @ the SOURCE: azcentral.com – Light-rail stations reflect neighborhoods.
- Urban expert offers advice on San Francisco
“There’s too little water, and too much of everything else,” Gehl said. “It has gone completely overboard in the quick-buck focus - how to skim a half-day tourist.”
“Gehl was in San Francisco last week as a guest of the Planning Department, which has engaged Gehl’s firm to recommend how the city’s streets and sidewalks can [...]
- Is Farmland Preservation Worthwhile? - Planetizen
Preserving farmland has always been a major issue in the U.S. But as Bill Fulton discusses, the local economic results don’t quite justify the efforts.
“The longtime farmers say they’re losing money. Even the organic farmers, who are making money, fear that proximity to urban development — and the complaints that arise — will drive them [...]
- Pentagon Memorial dedicated today
“The Pentagon memorial will be inaugurated today 7 years after 9/11. This memorial is the result of a competition won by KBAS Studio, who worked closely with the familiars of the victims. Pre fabrication and computer modelling where vital on the design and construction process of this memorial.”
For pictures of the memorial and its [...]
- The Central Promontory mound takes shape on the site of the AICCM
Oklahoma has a unique history that differentiates it from any other state in the nation. Oklahoma’s newest earthen architectural landform, the “Central Promontory Mound” located at the American Indian Cultural Center & Museum (AICCM) is rising proudly on the Oklahoma River. Strategically positioned at the intersection of I-35 and I-40, east of downtown Oklahoma City, [...]
- Make It Green: What IS Landscape Architecture, Anyway? : News : Naples Daily News
A great article by Michael Spencer What is Landscape Architecture?
SOURCE: Make It Green: What IS Landscape Architecture, Anyway? : News : Naples Daily News.
- The Associated Press: Once wilderness amid bustle, NYC rail becomes park
The first section of the $170 million High Line park set to open by the end of the year, the city’s residents are about to get their chance to see whether the project’s designers have succeeded in maintaining the sense of wilderness that so many found so evocative.
Designers: Field Operations and Diller Scofidio + Renfro
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- Green roofs could stop sewage from flowing into waterways
Cities could stop raw sewage from being dumped into local waterways during heavy rains if they installed more rooftop gardens on their buildings, says a Canadian environmental group.
SOURCE: cbc.ca – Green roofs could stop sewage from flowing into waterways: group.
- Miami designers, architects join MAM team - MiamiHerald.com
“Miami Art Museum, in the midst of planning and designing a new home in Bicentennial Park, has assembled a design team that consists of at least 10 Miami-based architectural and design firms.
The Miami-based organizations are: A.D.A. Engineering, Miami, as civil engineers; Arquitectonica Geo, Miami, as landscape architects; Douglas Wood and Associates of Coral Gables, as [...]
- Sasaki and Olympic Green - LA TIMES
Christopher Hawthorne wrote an interesting article about the Olympic Architecture and was interesting to read about his conversation with Sasaki about the Beijng Olympic Green as follows:
“I was put through to Dennis Pieprz, the president of the firm, who oversaw its work on the Green. After I asked him whether he would be in the [...]
- Shirley Hoy announces departure as City Manager of Toronto
Toronto City Manager Shirley Hoy today announced that she will leave the position of City Manager effective October 6, 2008.
SOURCE: Toronto Cty Council Press Release – Shirley Hoy announces departure as City Manager, Commitment to public service her hallmark.
- Moving Downtown to save on car costs
The Associated Press and other news outlets have reported over the last few weeks on the growing trend for young people and empty nesters moving downtown in major cities across the USA to save on fuel costs and to reduce their travel time.
The other growing trend is more people opting to use public transport to get [...]
- 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 [...]
- State-of-the-art sustainable neighborhood- Columbian.com
A former industrial site on prime waterfront real estate in the city’s core sheds its working-class roots for a future as an urban neighborhood reconnecting people to the water.
Sound familiar? Except this isn’t Vancouver’s Columbia River waterfront, where developers envision a dense cluster of apartments, condos, offices, retail, restaurants and parks.
It’s in Victoria, B.C., [...]
- Vibrant urban villages? Plans don’t fit reality
Stitched together by developers from fields and gravel pits, Apple Valley has worked for years to build the kind of downtown where residents can leave home in the morning and walk to the bus, their jobs or local stores.
New restaurants and a hotel, townhouses and a park with water fountains where kids can play have [...]
