Edinburgh Urged To Scrap Plans For ‘Ribbon’ Hotel
Officials fear the unusual design, proposed as part of the redevelopment of the St James Centre, could "damage" the city's skyline.
http://telegraph.co.uk/travel/hotel…
The Price of Thomas Heatherwick’s Imagination
Pier 55, proposed for Hudson River Park and for which the city will put up $17 million of an estimated $130 million.
http://nytimes.com/2015/08/02/arts/…
Crit> Edward M. Kennedy Institute
Rafael Vinoly's thoughtful design of the Edward M. Kennedy Institute elevates the Boston site, and complements the adjacent JFK Library.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Builders Battle California City Ordinance Making Them Pay For Public Art
Artists fear a victory for the firms challenging a new law to include art funding in construction projects will deal a blow to culture in the city.
http://theguardian.com/us-news/2015…
Kengo Kuma Designs Cultural Village for Portland Japanese Garden
Plans have been unveiled for Kengo Kuma's first public commission in the US. The Portland Japanese Garden has commissioned Kuma to design a new "Cultural Village" to accommodate the garden's growing popularity.
http://archdaily.com/771402/kengo-k…
Pershing Park on Pennsylvania Avenue Is Threatened
Located along Washington, D.C.’s Pennsylvania Avenue between the White House and the U.S. Capitol, Pershing Park, which opened in 1981, is among the most significant extant works by Modernist landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg.
https://tclf.org/node/64729
The Privatisation Of Cities’ Public Spaces Is Escalating. It Is Time To Take A Stand
In the first of a series on the changing nature of urban space, academic geographer and gonzo urbanist Bradley L Garrett discusses ‘Pops’ – privately owned public spaces – and asks who our cities are really for.
http://theguardian.com/cities/2015/…
Los Angeles Luxury Penthouse Interior With Expansive Views, Designer Furniture, Aquarium
Creating the perfect nest from an empty white shell is a frequent challenge for architects and designers working on a new apartment. And it is even more of a challenge when it's a 6,000 sq ft luxury two-story penthouse at the top of the Ritz-Carlton Residences, one of the highest buildings in Los Angeles.
http://archive.trendsideas.com/Arti…
BAR Architects Nestles A Winery Into A Hilly California Landscape
San Francisco-based BAR Architects has completed a California winery designed to match the colours and textures of its natural surroundings.
http://dezeen.com/2015/07/31/bar-ar…
A Different Kind of Hero
The Chicago Housing Authority has finally released a plan for the redevelopment of the Cabrini-Green site, signaling an end to the grand promises of urban renewal. What architecture needs more of now are smarter, smaller-scale solutions to knit our communities back together.
http://architectmagazine.com/design…
Landscape Great Dan Kiley Is Subject Of Retrospective In Dallas
The exhibition will be shown at the Dallas Center for Architecture from July 20-September 18.
http://dallasnews.com/lifestyles/ar…
Deep Dive: Swimming And Rehab Pools Around The World
For much of the northern hemisphere, pools signify summertime. But for many firms, including several of our Healthcare Giants, they represent design opportunities in the healthcare and wellness sectors.
http://interiordesign.net/articles/…
Crafting Authenticity for Retail Destinations
ELS Architecture and Urban Design principal, Sean Slater on describing the appeal of “authenticity” in the urban landscape.
http://urbanland.uli.org/planning-d…
Park Reform
San Francisco's Boeddeker Park is a green refuge.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
Walking the Walk: Putting Equity Into Practice
Over the years, each of us has experienced or seen firsthand organizations practicing social impact design with the best of intentions, but with unsustainable and sometimes outright unethical practices towards their own staff and collaborators.
https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/wa…
Upward Mobility
District of Columbia experiments with new housing model for the homeless.
http://archpaper.com/news/articles.…
New Orleans Goes with the Flow
Ten years after Katrina, the city learns to live with water.
http://archrecord.construction.com/…
Youth Centre Proposals Shortlisted For Brutalist Preston Bus Station Refurbishment
The Royal Institute of British Architects has revealed five possible designs for a youth centre that will form part of the £23 million redevelopment of Preston's Brutalist bus station, which was recently saved from demolition.
http://dezeen.com/2015/07/17/presto…
Utopia Rules at Sea Ranch, a Community Born of ’60s Idealism
With its gentle footprint on the California coast, simple wood houses and almost dictatorial aesthetic strictures, it feels as modern today as it did 50 years ago.
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/…
What Japanese Etiquette Can Tell Us About Good UX Design
This is worth reading.
http://fastcodesign.com/3048651/inn…
The Radiant City
"La Cité Radieuse" by Le Corbusier, in Marseille, France is the project which is often credited with (or blamed for, depending on your point of view) popularizing both brutalism and high density social housing.
http://modernistarchitecture.blogsp…
6 Principles Of Digital Design For Civic Innovation
How the San Francisco business portal embraced human-centered design to encourage entrepreneurship.
http://fastcodesign.com/3048560/inn…
The World’s Most Hauntingly Beautiful Abandoned Theme Parks
Photographer Seph Lawless braves alligators and cops to capture images of abandoned amusement parks around the world.
http://fastcodesign.com/3048310/the…
The Writing’s on the Walls: 7 Remote Writer’s Retreats
I was dreaming of a writers retreat. Then this popped up. Imagine my surprise when a studio belonging to some friends of mine showed up!
http://architizer.com/blog/writers-…
Striptease Exhibition Showcases Cal Poly Architectural Work On Interactive Displays
The final presentation of undergraduate architectural thesis projects from the 2014-2015 jackson studio at the Cal Poly College of architecture and environmental design culminated in the interactive exhibition ‘striptease’.
http://designboom.com/design/cal-po…
Want To Reclaim The Word “Brand”? Ban It From Your Vocabulary
Overusing terms like "brand" and "design" saps their meaning. Here are three ways to re-instill value in these essential concepts.
http://fastcodesign.com/3048262/wan…
