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City of San Francisco will yellow-tag sinking Millennium Tower if safety deadlines not met

2018-09-13T17:49:00-04:00

The department also took Millennium’s managers to task for not being more communicative about the crack and their efforts to find the cause. The department said it “continues to be frustrated with the communication” with the tower’s managers over a variety of issues. “We often do not find out information about the building until we first receive calls about an issue from the media or read them in a news report,” the department said in its letter Wednesday.

In the ongoing saga of the sinking Millennium Tower, the City of San Francisco's Department of Building Inspection has given the tower's managers until tomorrow to comply with a handful of safety measures, in response to a crack that appeared on a window on the 36th floor earlier this month. If management misses the deadline, the tower could be yellow-tagged, which could restrict access to the building until it is safe.

Deadline for Ed #2 'Disaster' submissions extended until January 30

2018-01-04T12:00:00-05:00

With 2017 in the rearview mirror, Ed wanted to take stock of where we are and where we’re going. But despite our best attempts at optimism, things didn’t look so hot. Our rents are rising. The climate is getting crazy. Nuclear war seems right around the corner. It began to feel like the only thing we can depend on is our monthly student loan bill. That is, we couldn’t help but notice that we’re in the middle of a sh*tstorm.

For our second issue, Ed is trying to grapple with the seemingly widespread sense that things are bad and probably getting worse. That is, we’re trying to think about architecture and disasters: How does architecture play a role in creating disasters? How can architecture help mitigate them? Are there such things as disasters in architecture itself? What even qualifies as a disaster anyway?

Credit: KC Green

Late last year, we began accepting written submissions of around 1500-2000 (max.) words (Chicago-style citation), as well as visual and built projects, that re...

Norman Foster and RIBA announce 2017 "survival of cities" traveling scholarship

2017-01-17T13:03:00-05:00

For the tenth year in a row, RIBA and Norman Foster are offering a traveling scholarship in the form of €7,000 (an increase over last year's €6,000) to the destination of the winning student's choice. Students can't enter directly: RIBA and CAA validated schools are allowed to submit only one application each for one student by April 28th, whose merits will then be judged by a panel consisting of both financial backer Norman Foster and RIBA members. In a quasi-apocalyptic vein, the student's proposed research topic should "relate to the survival of our cities and towns and fall under one of the following themes:

learning from the past to inform the future
the future of society
density of settlements
sustainability
use of resources
quality of urban life
transport"

The full details of the application can be found here.

Act Fast - Only One Week Left to Enter the 2016 Core77 Design Awards

2016-03-30T09:00:00-04:00

This post is brought to you by Core77 Design Awards.

With only seven days left before the Final Deadline hits on April 6th, at 9pm Eastern, designers, educators and strategists from all over the globe are putting the finishing touches on their entries for the 2016 Core77 Design Awards. Once the Final Deadline passes, the entries from the program’s 14 categories will be reviewed and critiqued by internationally distributed jury panels of design experts who will decide which projects deserve the coveted honors and the Core77 Design Awards Trophy.

To commemorate the 2016 season, Core77 commissioned a limited-edition, eye-popping poster from The Pressure design studio of Portland, OR. Every person who enters the Design Awards this Friday, April 1st, between midnight and 11:59pm Eastern will receive the poster for free. In addition to the poster, entrants will also receive a copy of Designing HERE/NOW, a global selection of objects, concepts and spaces for the future based upon entries i...

Don’t Miss the March 8 Regular Deadline to Enter the 2016 Core77 Design Awards

2016-03-04T13:56:00-05:00

This post is brought to you by Core77 Design Awards.

With the Regular Deadline for entry right around the corner on March 8th, the 2016 Core77 Design Awards invites designers from all over the world to put their best work forward and participate in this annual celebration of design enterprise and intent. The program embraces a wide range of design practice: commercial, cultural, social and environmental. Each year, thousands of professional and student designers submit their projects and ideas to be critiqued and honored by globally distributed panels of juries. The result is a collection of projects that inspire a broader discussion about the current state and future of design.

Each year, the 14 categories of entry are juried by independent Jury teams assembled and lead by design thought leaders from around the world. This year's Jury Captain line up includes:

Arthur Huang, Miniwiz - Built Environment Jury Captain
Alexis Lloyd, Creative Director, New York Times R&D Lab - Interaction J...