Design and Planning
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A national developer is transforming a former retail strip center in the Washington, D.C., suburbs into a dense, urban, mixed-use neighborhood.
With small floor plates and soaring heights, new developments in New York City and other global gateways appeal to luxury buyers.
Following a period of successful operations and subsequent decline, the Beaugrenelle shopping center in the 15th arrondissement of Paris was demolished to make way for a new-generation venue by making the most of the existing raised slab—a significant constraint left over from the utopian style of architecture of the 1970s.
This video, captured by drone by photographer Duncan Sinfield, shows the progress on the spaceship-like main building, plus a 100,000 square foot fitness center, parking structures for nearly 11,000 cars, a research and development facility, and 1,000 seat underground auditorium. Once completed, the Apple Campus 2 will house some 12,000 employees.
With the technology improving and prices falling, glass that automatically darkens to control glare and heat is gaining popularity.
Downtown Manhattan got a new architectural landmark last week, with the opening of architect Santiago Calatrava’s World Trade Center Transportation Hub. The distinctive structure with wing-like ribs connects the PATH commuter trains from New Jersey to the New York subway system, as well as the trans-Hudson ferries. Take a virtual tour with this video by Bloomberg Business.
Four university teams—including two from Harvard University, one from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and one from the University of Miami—have been selected as the finalists for the 14th annual Urban Land Institute Hines Student Competition, an ideas competition that provides both full- and part-time graduate-level student teams with the opportunity to devise a comprehensive design and development scheme for an actual, large-scale site in an urban area.
Placemaking is key to the appeal of high-density projects. Great design—and education—may help win over skeptics.
Ann Sussman and Justin B. Hollander’s book is an effort to shape a body of biological and psychological conclusions about architecture into a framework for thinking about just what deeper traits shape human preferences about the built environment.
The following ten transit-oriented projects—all completed during the past five years—demonstrate strategies for fostering use of alternative forms of transportation.
This book by Barbara Miller Lane, an emeritus professor of history at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, describes a unique era in American homebuilding that gave both working-class and more upwardly mobile middle-class Americans a shot at what many consider the American dream—a house and a yard in the suburbs.
Once boasting the world’s first Wanamaker’s location and nine similarly hulking stores like Snellenburg’s, Philadelphia’s Market Street was for decades a desolate echo of its former self. Today, a new generation of developers is betting big on downtown.