The Grand Winner has been selected from Phase II of the Van Alen Institute's Urban Voids Competition. Charles Loomis Chariss McAfee Architects with Juliet Geldi and Gavin Riggall proposed to address the 40,000 vacant lots of Philadelphia through the creation of a new watershed. | Grounds for Change | Previous: Finalists
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It's funny, I though about Charisse yesterday as I was silver coating the roof of my mother's (built by my father) garden shed. I was remembering what happened that day she visited me at Arbor Street. It was a true Odds of Ottopia event. I had to immediately drive her back downtown, and I told good bit of the saga as we drove down Roosevelt Expressway. She wanted to reach out, and I told her, "No, I'm OK. That's just the way it is."
Charisse and Charles are very gifted.
... what happened that day?
The day was, I think, sometime in spring 1992, and all Charisse witnessed was me getting a very distressing phone call from my father. What happened involves what may well be the lowest point of my brother's schizophrenia, and thus a story I'll rarely tell anyone.
a water shed in downtown philly?
i suppose they are not worried about insects.
why not just propose to let west nile loose on the entire city?
or if there are just no bugs out east , please correct me...
how about mentioning the 2 other recent penn graduates on the team....?
Apologies, didn't see that. It's been updated.
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