My favorite part of Interboro's winning PS1 scheme, is their "new take on recycling".
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My favorite part of Interboro's winning PS1 scheme, is their "new take on recycling".

Quilian points out an unflattering and perhaps unfair portrayal of what's going on in Braddock PA, but what he considers an important case study/lesson for anyone that wants to work in challenging urban conditions. From the NYT magazine.

Discussion Threads
In our discussion of generic architecture dsc_arch, relates a quote from an old professor at USC Gramme Morland Is generic architecture a chorus building? Should all buildings beat their chest?...

glitter centaur questions whether given the recent news, that based on the 2010 US Census, Chicago's Population has sunk to 1920s levels Could planned demolitions be underway?.

As citizen wistfully says this is the kind of good old-fashioned building-related thread that's so much fun to read on Archinect.

School Blogs
Micah at Kent State University highlights a call from Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative. They want to know if you have a story about a Cleveland place - past, present or future. Fact or fiction. Funny, sad, exciting...it's up to you DO YOU HAVE A CLEVELAND STORY TO TELL?

Matthew at University of Illinois Chicago reports in from the dregs of winter. He lets us know about how his classes are going. Some like Sean Lally's Tech class, "Envelopes and Environments," where he is studying implications of smell and its uses in design or Alexander Eisenschmidt's theory class where he is working on their "Visionary Chicago project are going well. Others like his studio class are not. As he writes I personally have not had a single critique, desk or pin-up, go particularly well.

Greg at Knowlton School of Architecture is taking a studio with visiting professor Jason Payne. The research is focused on surface sublimating form and the explorations of fur in architecture.



Additionally
Vishaan Chakrabarti has a timely and topical piece over at Urban Omnibus on Liberation Squares. In it he writes And perhaps this is the primary lesson about public space. That beyond our day-to-day needs for it be clean, amenable, and safe, it also has to allow for the expression of instability, for the expression of a world ever in need of change. Change is the essence of urbanity, and Egypt has reminded us that urban space can drive us towards a changed, perhaps unstable, but in the end better world.