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Built Environment Blog: link it up

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Thursday, October 28. I've finally got around to updating the other webpages I link to on the Built Environment Blog and I thought I'd highlight a few of the new additions. Guano Loading Infrastructure, Peru. From Oliver Whiteside. One of my very favorite reads these days is Free Association Design. A tangent-rich blog based in Portland. I can't remember how I came across F.A.D. at first, but I became a regular reader after reading a post on Reclaiming the Florida Everglades. Executive director Lisa Cham...

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Built Environment Blog: 10/01/2007 - 11/01/2007

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Friday, October 19. Because I don't see how adding one car in here is going to make it a better space. I think space on streets is actually useless space.". The current plan for Atlantic Yards involves the demapping of several streets and the creation of a residential superblock. Site Plan via Atlantic Yards Report. Would allow them to "preserve an organic community life" in the face of automobile-based cities of the future. ( The Nature of Cities. NYU’s Silver Towers, a superblock created by the d...

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Built Environment Blog: ride to the sea

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Friday, May 25. Ride to the sea. This week I fulfilled a long-time wish and rode my bike down Ocean Parkway to Coney Island. This tree-lined path starts just south of Prospect Park and continues about 5 miles until reaching the Atlantic Ocean. It's a lovely ride, if a bit bumpy. Which seemed to have been redesigned mid-construction. At first glance, I thought that the school was adding a rooftop addition to take advantage of unused FAR. The Bay Ridge Freight Line. Several years ago at an old job, I exami...

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Built Environment Blog: not a chicago tatoo

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Saturday, November 13. Not a chicago tatoo. Just came across a mock-up of a design for a Chicago tatoo that a friend requested a few years ago. He didn't end up getting the tatoo, but I still like the sketch. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 3 grand army plaza. 4 ride to the sea. A Daily Dose of Architecture. Alex Garvin and Associates. Bird to the North. Brooklyn Genealogy Information Page. Design Trust for Public Space. Environmental Design Research Association. Fake Is the New Real.

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Built Environment Blog: Doppelstock-Containertragwagen

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Thursday, September 23. It's been a very Teutonic week for me. It all started when I received a copy of the August issue of Garten Landschaft. A German landscape architecture journal. Usually I prefer to read about the newest developments in landscape in a language I can understand, but this was different: my Berkeley Master's thesis, Network-Landscape: The Internet and the Urban Site. Was featured in the "Campus" section. Thesis advisers, Professor Judith Stilgenbauer. I was getting hits from German Wik...

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Built Environment Blog: unused FAR

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Tuesday, September 12. One of my favorite development phenomena is the construction of a new building on top of an old one. The primary metric used to govern building size in the New York City Zoning Resolution. Is Floor Area Ratio (FAR). Rather than being measured by their height or volume, buildings are measured by their FAR, which is equal to the total floor area of a building divided by the lot area. Thus a three story building that covers half its lot will have an FAR of 1.5. THOR is The Hotel On Ri...

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Built Environment Blog: 11/01/2010 - 12/01/2010

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Saturday, November 13. Also, election cartograms are fascinating. This electoral cartogram was made by Michael Gastner. Here's my labeled version. Of the 2008 election cartogram made by Mark Newman. Not a chicago tatoo. Just came across a mock-up of a design for a Chicago tatoo that a friend requested a few years ago. He didn't end up getting the tatoo, but I still like the sketch. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). 3 grand army plaza. 4 ride to the sea. A Daily Dose of Architecture. Alex Garvin and Associates.

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Built Environment Blog: 07/01/2007 - 08/01/2007

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Saturday, July 7. Sail to the crib. Last Monday, I decided to have my class sail out to the the Wilson Avenue crib. Sailing to the crib is good practice navigating in large waves - it also makes the kids more independent and gets them comfortable being further from shore. Getting somewhere on a sailboat is fun, too, instead of just going around buoys. A boat practicing trapezing on the way to the crib. Which reversed the flow of the Chicago River. When operation began in 1866, the first crib. Remain in o...

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Built Environment Blog: love those mills

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Tuesday, August 29. I love industrial buildings. With no other building type are designs so consistently dedicated to function as with those made for industrial production. The economics of industrialization demand that such buildings be free of any ornament that interferes with production or adds cost. Since the 1960s, western society's emerging creative economy has encouraged the conversion of many post-industrial buildings to artists' lofts and galleries. One of the most ambitious conversions star...