The annual Cleveland Design Competition, organized by architects Micahel Christoff and Bradley Fink, called on designers to imagine a revitalized Detroit-Superior Bridge spanning the Cuyahoga River. The jury unanimously awarded first prize to two submissio
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Proposed by PinkCloud.DK…, TENACITY seeks to revitalize the broken system of New York City Public Housing through architectural development, economic stimulus, education, and most importantly – community pride. The goal for this project is to b
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Located in the heart of Andenne, near the town square, the project by Frédéric Haesevoets Architecture… focuses on the revitalization of the city center, to assure for the future a coherent urbanization. These future blocks will complete the existing
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When we introduced you to the Bancroft School in September, the topic of one of the SEED Network’s awesome mini-documentaries, or SEEDocs, the revitalization project was still in development. However, this Saturday’s ground-breaking ceremony me
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The busy city of Rotterdam is filled with small living spaces, smartly designed. Due to the municipality’s idea of revitalizing the pre-war buildings, many small apartments have suffered “overnight makeovers”, borrowing glimpses of the ur
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CityWay, a $155 million mixed-use development planned to revitalize Indianapolis’ Southeast downtown quadrant, could mean big things for the city’s redevelopment. The Indianapolis Star released this interactive map of the project’s features, which in
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Dutch architects Shift designed this city dwelling in the center of Rotterdam. This so called do-it-yourself dwelling in the centre of Rotterdam is part of a bold experiment initiated by the municipality to revitalize dilapidated urban areas. The main idea
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Frank Gehry should be plenty busy with ambitious plans to revitalize downtown Toronto and to expand Facebook’s offices on the boards. Now, Gehry has been commissioned by the National YoungArts Foundation (NYAF) to update one of Miami’s most elegant and his
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Alphonso Peluso, Director of Digital Architecture + Fabrication at the Illinois Institute of Technology, is on a mission to max out Revit. His workshop, “Revit Parametric Facade Design,” on October 12 offers participants a hands-on lab for expl
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Architects: Hastings Architecture Associates
Location: Nashville, TN, United States
Project Year: 2012
Photographs: Jim Roof Creative
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The restoration and addition to the NABRICO building serves as the beacon for revitalization
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To commemorate Chile’s Bicentennial, President Sebastián Piñera Echenique has developed the “Legado Bicentenario” (Bicentennial Legacy) program to create, revitalize and consolidate public spaces/buildings of great urban/cultural importan
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Design Corps and SEED (Social Economic Environmental Design) have released the latest installment of SEEDocs…, their series of awesome, mini-documentaries that highlight inspirational stories of award-winning public interest design projects.
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Are the walls of your house too dull and common? You can revitalize the interiors by choosing some models of wallcovering from Muraspec, a company that has been designing and making wallcoverings in the United Kindom for professionals in the interiors indu
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[ October 18, 2012 0:00 to October 21, 2012 0:00. ] With ‘Revitalizing Cities’ as the theme, New Jersey Institute of Technology will be hosting the upcoming semi-annual AIAS Northeast Fall Quad Conference in Newark. As current architecture stud
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Wood, brick, and glass are the main ingredients in this contemporary home located in Sydney, Australia. Originally a mid-century structure, the house has been revitalized by CplusC Architectural Workshop. The house opens to a generous garden to the north w
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Wood, brick, and glass are the main ingredients in this contemporary home located in Sydney, Australia. Originally a mid-century structure, the house has been revitalized by CplusC Architectural Workshop. Castlecrag Residence by CplusC Architectural Worksh
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Using mimbre (wicker) to create useful everyday objects has been a traditional occupation of dwellers in Chilean city of Chimbarongo since the beginning of the century. The growing local economy has seen a decrease when fewer people were interested in work
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Welcome back and congratulations for having made it to the final installation of the Olympic City Guide.
So far, in parts I and II, we’ve learned how to design for your post-Games legacy (No White Elephants please) and to revitalize…
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Architects: Cartwright Pickard Architects
Location: Sheffield, England
Year: 2009
Area: 94,000 sqm
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This mixed use scheme provides residential, retail and office accommodation, revitalising
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Earlier this month, we featured a three part series that explored Urban Agriculture – how its design could change our relationship to food and potentially guide the way we plan and revitalize our cities. In the last article of the…
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Architects: Jerde
Location: Daegu, South Korea
Completion: 2011
Area: 50,000 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of Jerde
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Initiated as a competition to revitalize an underutilized parking lot adjacent to the Daegu World Cup Stadium, Jerde was co
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Architects: HASSELL
Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Completion: 2012
Scale: 27,000 sqm
Client: Grocon / EPC Partners
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Danish architects BIG… have just shared with us the Cross # Towers, their latest project in Seoul. BIG’s residential towers in the Yongsan International Business District revitalize the Han riverfront into a new commercial and residential center for
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Architects: Cebra
Location: Kirkebyvej, Sdr. Nissum, Denmark
Client: Holstebro Municipality
Completion: 2011
Size: 1,800 sqm
Photographs: Mikkel Frost / Cebra
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Amanda Burden… has been making a big impact on the City. As Chair of the New York City Planning Commission and Director of the Department of City Planning, Ms. Burden’s efforts to revitalize New York have resulted in the preservation
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Architecture professionals often agree that CAD applications, whether in the PC or Mac platforms, could use some help. Revit of course offers some dramatic improvements but not everyone uses it. So some Engineering faculty at Washington State University ha
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Architects: MCA atelier
Location: Horská ulice, Prague, Czech Republic
Cooperation: Mgr. art. Peter Buš, Ing. Pavel Košťálek
Project Year: 2011
Project Area: 1,870 sqm
Photographs: Courtesy of MCA atelier
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On February 17, David Fano will lead Revit Design, a workshop focused on the digital design program Revit, as part of DAY 2 of the upcoming COLLABORATION conference on fabrication and facades in NYC. In 2008, David Fano established CASE Design, a Building
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Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) and PWP Landscape Architecture shared with us their proposal for the 8 Washington development in downtown San Francisco. The plans will continue the revitalization and support enjoyment of the historically under-utiliz
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PARK shared with us their proposal for the harbor revitalization competition in Aalesund, Norway. To revitalize the southern harbor district situated adjacent to the historic city center, they put an emphasis on the relationship between the distinct archit
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This month, UNStudio’s Ponte Parodi, a waterfront design for Genoa, Italy, will be presented at the MAPIC in Cannes as one of the most iconic waterfront developments currently being realized. The harbor project is part of a larger vision to revitalize the
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Ferley Sergey, who currently works with Zotov & Co, shared with us his design for the revitalization of the industrial areas in the Kyiv city center, a former factory “Radar” and the surrounding areas. Currently, these areas are in terrible
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Dezeen Wire: industrial designer James Dyson has called on engineers and designers to develop the new ideas needed to revitalise the UK economy – The Guardian
Dyson says that only tangible engineering can address issues such as global warming and po
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The design proposal by ZA Architects is intended to become a framework for further development of human activity in the exclusion zone around Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine. The backbone of the project is a mono-rail road with…
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PLANT Architecture has recently been recognized with an Honorable Mention in the City of Toronto’s Urban Design Awards. Held every other year, the awards acknowledge the contributions design has on the local milieu. PLANT’s revitalization of the Nathan Phi
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Found on Architizer his residence is a fascinating modern home that shows us how contemporary materials can enhance the beauty of modern residential designs. The Folded Corten House displays 215 square meters of wide open spaces visually connected to the o
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Brooks + Scarpa Architects and Clearscapes Architecture designed the Contemporary Art Museum (CAM) in Raleigh, North Carolina. . Contemporary Art Museum by Brooks + Scarpa and Clearscapes Located in Raleigh’s revitalizing Historic Depot District, an unlike
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The goal of ISA and NEAR Design for the Kaohsiung Port Station, serving the largest harbor in Taiwan, is to revitalize the Port station area into a Transitional Park (Trans-Park) where daily life and events, past and future, landscape…
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Check out a preview we spotted on PublicInterestDesign of Tulane University’s School of Architecture URBANbuild program, a total collaborative effort of “individuals, organizations, and businesses committed to revitalizing New Orleans’ rich cul
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Architects: Vertex Design Location: New Delhi, India Chief Architect: Abhhay Narkar Project Year: 2011 Project Area: 9,000 sqf Photographs: Courtesy of Vertex Design The revitalization of the Delhi Art Gallery required a complete restructuring of interior
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The revitalization of this underutilized public park transforms it into a neighborhood and regional destination through the integration of diversified urban park programs, regional gardens and restored native habitats, and the connection with urban circula
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[ July 10, 2011; 12:00 to 15:00. ] Chris Pommer will be speaking on a panel with Michael Awad and Samantha Sanella this weekend. The discussion will center on building downtown culture, in the context of the Revitalization of Viljo Revell’s archetypal City
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The Podium Roof Garden is the first transformation in the competition-winning scheme “Agora Theatre” – the Nathan Phillips Square Revitalization. This 3-acre upper-level component of Viljo Revell’s 1965 iconic and visionary City Hall and multi-level publi
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The winning project of the Olympic Port, which aims at the revitalization and redevelopment of 850 square meters of the port city of Rio de Janeiro, was announced at the headquarters of the Brazilian Institute of Architects of Brazil…
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Ann Beha Architects designed the award-winning Music Building at the University of Pennsylvania. The project consolidates distributed academic resources; revitalizes a prominent 19th century landmark; provides new community spaces for faculty and students
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