Ron Nyren

Ron Nyren is a freelance architecture, urban planning, and real estate writer based in the San Francisco Bay area.

Awards

Public Buildings - Libraries and Museums

Global Excellence Awards: Warsaw’s New Cultural Landmark Sets History in Stone

For two hundred years, the Warsaw Citadel at the heart of Poland’s capital was a restricted military and administrative area, cut off from public access. With the recent opening of the Polish History Museum, as well as the new Polish Army Museum, the 19th-century fortress’ 74-acre (30 ha) grounds now serve as a multifunctional cultural and educational facility and park that preserves and showcases the country’s heritage.

December 17, 2024

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Development and Construction

Architecture – Design

UL10: Modern Museums

10 museum buildings strengthen ties to communities and the public realm

December 16, 2024

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Design and Planning

New York City

Outlook for Downtown Rejuvenation

Four experts discuss how to rebuild urban cores by bringing the public and private sectors together to create thriving downtowns that entice remote workers to return to the office and broaden the mix of uses.

December 9, 2024

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Design and Planning

Awards

ULI Global Awards for Excellence: A Coca-Cola Bottling Plant Becomes an Entertainment and Cultural Hub

The transformation of Indianapolis’s historic Coca-Cola bottling plant into the Bottleworks District represents one of Indiana’s most ambitious adaptive use projects.

December 3, 2024

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Finance & Investment

Multifamily

ULI Global Awards for Excellence: Pioneering Affordable Housing Preservation in Austin

With insights and research from a ULI Technical Advisory Panel and ULI’s Terwilliger Center, the Austin Housing Conservancy fund, a revolutionary approach to preserving workforce housing, was born. Now known as the Texas Housing Conservancy, the fund became the nation’s first to combine a nonprofit investment manager, Affordable Central Texas, with an open-end private equity fund.

November 19, 2024

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Capital Markets and Finance

Recreation and Entertainment

Convention Centers Integrate with the Urban Realm to Stay Competitive

Covid-19 may have caused a precipitous decline in convention crowds in 2020, but it did not halt long-range plans to overhaul and expand convention centers in a number of key U.S. cities. Today that foresight is bearing fruit with grand new facilities able to host larger industry and trade gatherings than ever before.

October 29, 2024

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Design and Planning

Infrastructure – Parking and Parking Facilities

UL10: Urban Parking Solutions

The following projects include an underwater bicycle garage; a university parking structure that includes a gaming lounge and food hall; a surface lot reimagined as open space with parklike amenities; an underground cafeteria repurposed for cars; and parking decks wrapped in artistic, semitransparent enclosures that reflect local culture.

August 20, 2024

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Placemaking and Placekeeping

Urban Design

A Sense of Place—Revitalizing Downtowns Through Smart Placemaking

Can third spaces help downtowns bounce back from the pandemic?

July 30, 2024

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Inside the ULI Foundation

ULI Leadership

Tom Toomey to Lead ULI Foundation as New Chair

Thomas W. Toomey, chairman and chief executive officer of UDR Inc., will become the new chair of the ULI Foundation on July 1, 2024. A longtime ULI member and chair of the ULI Global Board of Directors from 2017 to 2019, Toomey brings extensive leadership experience and a deep commitment to philanthropic support for ULI’s mission.

July 22, 2024

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