Tag Archives: architecture

Urban Design After the Age of Oil

By admin | Published: November 11, 2008

(via Archinect) This ground-breaking symposium has been organized to address the role of urban design in the face of one of the most profound and important challenges facing global society: the need to re-imagine and rethink how cities are designed and organized in a future without the plentiful and abundant oil upon which prosperous urban [...]

Serial Consign by Greg J. Smith

By admin | Published: November 11, 2008

I’m loving this guy’s blog lately and I encourage adding it to your Google Reader. Keep an eye on this one. Outside of his own design research blog Serial Consign, Greg co-curates and edits the digital arts publication Vague Terrain and is a regular contributor to Augmentology 1[L]0[L]1. He has also written and edited for [...]

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Lilypad Cities

By admin | Published: July 4, 2008

Each of these floating cities are designed to hold approximately around 50,000 people. A mixed terrain man-made landscape, provided by an artificial lagoon and three ridges, create a diverse environment for the inhabitants. Each Lilypad is intended to be either near a coast, or floating around in the ocean, traveling from the equator to the [...]

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New Look for South Street Seaport

By admin | Published: June 18, 2008

(via Archinect) Conceding the failure of the South Street Seaport pier as a “festival marketplace” — these days, it is not much more than a waterfront mall — its owners plan to replace it with a mixed-use project including a 42-story, 495-foot apartment and hotel tower, wrapped in a terra-cotta exoskeleton and rising from new [...]

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Mile High Tower

By admin | Published: March 31, 2008

Plans for a mile-high tower in the desert, which would be twice the height of the worldâ€™s tallest building, have been unveiled by the multi-billionaire owner of the Savoy hotel in London. The Telegraph reports visitors will be able to see Africa from the top.

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The Future of Coney Island

By admin | Published: November 13, 2007

(Via the NYC Department of City Planning Website) The proposal would capitalize on Coney Island’s beachfront location and envisions the development of between approximately 4,000 and 5,000 new units of housing outside the amusement area, including roughly 900 affordable units. It would promote new retail uses and hotels to serve the year round amusement area. [...]

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