The NYTimes reports on NYC's plans for a field of underwater electricity-generating turbines in the channel between Roosevelt Island and Queens, estimated to provide 5 to 10 megawatts of power and potentially save the city the equivalent of about 65,000 barrels of oil each year. The project is... View full entry
An interesting article in the NYTimes from a few weeks back describes the origins and unintended consequences of New York City Local Laws 10 and 11, which exemplify the sort of unseen influences that shape a building--and the city--long after the architect has left the scene. URBAN TACTICS; Going... View full entry
National authority on architecture of affordable housing, Oakland will miss Mike as he moves to Pheonix to ensure the fastest growing city brings the highest per capita of affordable housing with it. | ArizonaRepublic View full entry
Not getting what he wanted from his insurers, Larry Silverstein (WTC leaseholder) asked the LMDC for the remainder of a pot of Liberty Bonds, about $3.5 billion worth. Nonetheless, the LMDC "is facing the cost of financing additional projects at the World Trade Center, including the memorial and... View full entry
A gallery with the finalists' models on the official Fiera site... Previously on Archinect:winnersMore on the winners...the shortlist View full entry
NY Times Editorial : Congress and the Department of Housing and Urban Development have been playing a transparent game of "good cop, bad cop" since HUD set out to savage Section 8, the federal program that provides housing subsidies for the poor... Republicans in Congress say they budgeted enough... View full entry
The NY Times discusses the future of London's skyline. Read LONDON — "Earth has not anything to show more fair," Wordsworth wrote of London two centuries ago. But the "ships, towers, domes, theaters and temples" that he admired from Westminster Bridge have long since given way... View full entry
By Andrew SternCHICAGO (Reuters) - After decades of mediocrity in a city known for its elegant skyscrapers, Chicago hopes to stage an architectural renaissance with a new $475 million park featuring a swirling steel band shell designed by Frank Gehry. View full entry
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As reported in the NY Times, the Regional Plan Association, an influential non-profit planning organization, has become the first major civic group to openly oppose the Jets Stadium project, proposed as a key element in the NYC2012 Olympic Bid and the Bloomberg administration's plans to develop... View full entry
June 21 (Bloomberg) -- British architect Richard Rogers is working on a plan to bury part of the highway along New York's East River and create a waterfront from the lower East Side to the southern tip of Manhattan. Rogers, 70, is known for futuristic-looking buildings such as London's Millennium... View full entry
The second installment of from the Architecture League of NY's "Worldview: Perspectives on Architecture and Urbanism around the Globe" research. (First installment was Caracas). View full entry
One academic's quest to define urban sprawl. Complete with new acronyms. View full entry
"What's remarkable about the urban planning of Burning Man is how this social experiment illuminates what is essential about what we need to live together. Giant groups demand intelligent design and culture thrives in smaller tribes. Form must bend to function, but function is elevated by beauty... View full entry
The New York Times on the discovery of 20,000 negatives of old New York City Housing Authority photographs, documenting the before and after conditions of NYC urban renewal projects in the mid-Twentieth Century and the impact on the lives of those families who were relocated."Those women should... View full entry
