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WITH 100 NEW PHOTOS Greenwich Street on a hot summer day
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Category Archives: Urbanism
The design of streets where people walk should begin with true 20 mph speed limits & Vision Zero principles
#20isplenty #VisionZero
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QB Redux: I think that I shall never see…
WHEN I SHOWED A TRANSFORMATION FOR QUEENS BOULEVARD that included trees over the subway beneath the wide street, some people naturally had some doubts about how well the trees would grow. But look at these trees above the similar “cut and … Continue reading
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Exhibition Road Redux
“Shared space schemes labelled ‘dangerous’ in Lords report” “A new House of Lords report has called for a moratorium on any new ‘frightening and intimidating’ shared space schemes” — Architects Journal WE GAVE Exhibition Road a mixed review in Street … Continue reading
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The Three Best Entries in the World War I Competition are Classical
THERE’S STILL no resolution to the war in Washington over Frank Gehry’s design for a memorial to General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Many who love Gehry’s work hate the memorial design,* which the Eisenhower family rejected. But Kansas Senator Bob Dole and … Continue reading
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My Comment on CityLab: “What’s the Matter With San Francisco?”
POSTSCRIPT: When the highest profits in a market like New York’s come from 1) converting affordable rental housing into housing for sale that buyers use for investment and speculation, and from 2) building housing for the rich and the super-rich, there is … Continue reading
Bike Shares I Have Known
Vester Voldgade – Our Street of the Day / A Street Design Supplement*
VESTER VOLDGADE, KØBENHAVN (“West Rampart Street, Copenhagen”) is interesting both for its current condition and and its original state. It’s called “Voldgade” because like the boulevards of Paris, it was built where the old city wall stood (the French word “boulevard” … Continue reading
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The voices are rising, on both sides of the Atlantic
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City of the Day
No this one:
Streets of the Day
Click on the image for a larger view Vive la France!
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The Good Kind – Bilbao
I WENT TO BILBAO just to see the Frank Gehry’s Guggenheim Museum. I’m glad I did. Gehry may be our greatest living architect, and the Guggenheim is the best of the 6 or 7 of the buildings designed by him … Continue reading
The Good Kind – 150 Charles Street, Cook + Fox
I’VE NOTICED this new building a few times from the Hudson River Greenway. It always gets an automatic, “Oh, that’s pretty good.” Other architects have told me they’ve had similar “blink” reactions. Why? It’s well proportioned, it has pleasant massing, … Continue reading
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New Building for New Orleans
MANY ARCHITECTS will call this design “kitsch,” “pastiche,” or “nostalgic.” Pastiche means “an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist, or period,” so it’s not really a criticism, although they mean it to be. For that matter, … Continue reading
Before & After Photos from NY.Curbed.com
OVER AT CURBED—or after the jump—you can see these with sliders that go between the new and the old:
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Selling Snow To Eskimos Part II (BIG Photobombs Tribeca)
UPDATE: I rode a bike from Lafayette Street to the Hudson River today. At the beginning of the ride I looked up Broadway and saw the top of the Chrysler Building. At Fifth Avenue the Empire State Building came into … Continue reading
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Why Is A Private Company Allowed To Close And Design Public Streets?
UPDATE: The good news is that this has been to the Community Boards, which endorsed the plan—I don’t know why I didn’t find that in my searches or calls around this morning. It is good that there is some public … Continue reading
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