Colors play a vital role in urban design presentations, in addition to establishing presentation methodologies.
Nearly 4,000 homes, a hotel, and commercial space are planned for 42 acres
Proving the power of Latin American universities to be engines of innovation and entrepreneurship through partnership with industry and R&D communities
Contrary to what has been asserted elsewhere, the suburbs are not about to have a renaissance. In fact, there are many reasons to believe we are nearing the end.
The suburban landscape consists largely of endless expanses of paved parking lots pocked with strip malls, gas stations, chain restaurants, and McMansions. Rather than razing these structures with the aim of greening the suburbs, Galina Tahchieva proposes
Image 8 of 13 from gallery of New Lower Hill Masterplan / West 8 + BIG + Atelier Ten. Photograph by BIG
Utile worked with the City of Boston and the nonprofit A Better City to develop design and process guidelines for tactical activation of the public realm. The project began with an audit of existing City policies around parklets and sidewalk cafes, leading to an overhaul of the way the City approaches placemaking interventions in the public realm. To codify the new regime, Utile created a Tactical Public Realm Standards document which includes both design guidelines and a how-to guide to the process of implementing a plaza, parklet, outdoor cafe, or street mural.
Incremental approaches are often cheaper, faster, or have less risk than sudden approaches. Let’s explore different types of incrementalism.
Walkability is a crucial first step in creating sustainable transportation in an urban environment. This infographic lays out what it takes to create a walkable, pedestrian-friendly environment. An urban space puts pedestrians first when it has a mix of infrastructure that ensures a physical space and design that promotes walking, activity which brings people and
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Swedish designer, currently living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. This is my visual diary, a collection of daily inspiration, manually arranged by colors, hues, tones and shades. All posts are tagged. Use the searchbox below to only display one color or theme.
A competition to reinvent the suburbs announces 20 finalist entries.
Swedish Virserum Art Museum has announced the 2013 winners of Architecture of Necessity, the triennial for sustainable community building. Over the recent years, the manifesto, written in protest of a lack of am...
Three buildings are latest development at White City Place
GRAPHISOFT, the leading Building Information Modeling (BIM) architectural software developer, has announced that Urban Strategies, a GRAPHISOFT client based in Toronto, Canada, has won a number of prestigious awards for work recently completed in Singapore, all designed using ArchiCAD
Infrastructure work is clearing the way for a 755-foot-tall tower that will punctuate the first phase of Related Midwest's development, known as The 78.
Image 18 of 24 from gallery of Fayetteville Montessori Elementary School / Marlon Blackwell Architects. Site Plan
buildings getting taller and us consuming more resources, That's why it was a must to find urban planning software programs
