Pershing Square Renew wants your input on Semi-Finalist Concept Boards
In October, Pershing Square Renew selected 10 teams as semi-finalists for the redesign of Downtown Los Angeles’ oft-maligned urban space. The international design competition drew hundreds of entries...
View ArticleDesigner envisions a Miami Beach that embraces the rising sea
This year’s Art Basel/Design Miami was a wash. The tallest stilettos could not save feet from floodwaters that inundated streets and forced partygoers under small tents. Even when it’s not raining,...
View ArticleOrange Coast College expansion threatens designs by Neutra, Alexander, and...
The future’s looking grim for a dozen buildings on the Orange Coast College designed by Richard Neutra and Robert Alexander. A November vote by college trustees approved a plan for the demolition of...
View ArticleMeet The Green Line: How Perkins Eastman would remake Broadway through...
By now, the “Bilbao Effect” is metonymy for a culture-led revitalization of a postindustrial city driven by a single institution housed in a starchitect-designed complex. The wild success of...
View ArticleFour finalists selected to redesign Pershing Square in Los Angeles
Pershing Square Renew just announced the four finalists of the Pershing Square design competition: SWA with Morphosis, James Corner Field Operations with Frederick Fisher & Partners, Agence TER...
View ArticleCentral Park’s Adventure Playground, designed by Richard Dattner, reopens...
The Richard Dattner–designed Adventure Playground, one of New York City’s most beloved recreational spaces, recently reopened after a yearlong renovation by the Central Park Conservancy. A companion...
View ArticlePenda creates a river-like pavilion for the 10th International Garden Expo in...
Where the River Runs, a 1,500 square-meter (4,921 square-foot) pavilion by the Beijing– and Vienna–based firm Penda Architecture and Design, is currently under construction for the 10th International...
View ArticleIn the Bronx, delays seem interminable for long-anticipated Roberto Clemete...
“The Hub,” in the Bronx neighborhood of Mott Haven, couldn’t be better named: it’s the center of commercial activity in the South Bronx, and one of the busiest intersections in the city. As its dense...
View ArticleJames Corner Field Operations will design the National Building Museum’s...
Following in the stead of Snarkitecture and Bjarke Ingels, New York’s James Corner Field Operations will create the National Building Museum’s summer 2016 installation. The landscape architecture firm...
View ArticlePictorial> Here are the four winners of the Field Constructs Design...
In November, Field Constructs Design Competition presented site-specific installations by emerging architects and landscape architects at the Circle Acres Nature Preserve in East Austin. AN recently...
View ArticleFour competing schemes for Downtown Los Angeles’ First & Broadway Civic Park
First there was the Grand Park, then Pershing Square decided to spruce things up with a design competition, and now four competing schemes for a third Downtown Los Angeles park were presented to the...
View ArticleJames Corner–designed pedestrian street, the Nicollet Mall, gets budgetary...
Minneapolis’ James Corner–designed Nicollet Mall redevelopment project has hit a speedbump as an initial construction bid has come in at over $24 million over the $35 million construction budget. The...
View ArticleBreaking: World War I Centennial Commission names winner in memorial competition
The World War I Centennial Commission in Washington D.C. has announced Chicago–based designer Joe Weishaar and New York–based sculptor Sabin Howard as the winners of the World War I Memorial...
View ArticleFordham Plaza, one of New York’s busiest transit hubs, is now one of the...
The NYC Department of Design and Construction (DDC) and the NYC Department of Transportation (DOT) recently unveiled the redesigned, ultra pedestrian-friendly Fordham Plaza. Vision Zero‘s mandate to...
View ArticleGoing green at ULI’s VerdeXchange: The L.A. River, development, and the...
If words were water, the Los Angeles River would be overflowing its banks. If pronouncements were viable projects, a very green sustainable Southern California is in the offing. There certainly were a...
View ArticleWXY steps up design on one of New York’s long-neglected stair paths
Although step-streets—pedestrian corridors that replace auto-centric streets in hilly neighborhoods—are more often associated with San Francisco, New York City has 94 step-streets of its own. WXY...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor> Pier55 responds to City Club of New York criticism
[Editor’s Note: This letter is in response to an op-ed from the City Club of New York. Opinions expressed in letters to the editor do not necessarily reflect the opinions or sentiments of the...
View ArticleHoustonians love botanic gardens, but not necessarily in their backyards
Neighbors of the recently approved Houston Botanic Garden (HBC), designed by New York–based West 8, oppose the plans, saying that the to-be-built garden will increase traffic in their neighborhoods and...
View ArticleFive installation winners announced for this year’s prestigious International...
In its 17th edition, the International Garden Festival has announced five new winners selected from 203 projects comprising 31 countries. This year’s winners were presented at Les Jardins de Métis,...
View ArticleBjarke Ingels and four others unveil designs for the 2016 Serpentine Pavilion...
Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) is unveiling high-profile projects at an unprecedented rate. The Copenhagen– and New York–based firm today released the rendering for its Serpentine Pavilion in London’s...
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