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Explore - Urban Planning
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Industrial Evolution
A Norman Foster master plan has transformed a decaying German industrial port into a vibrant neighborhood. It’s not about a single dramatic image, but what Foster calls “incremental...
written by: Jane Szitaphotos by: Hertha Hurnaus04.21.09 -
Pooling Our Resources
After disappearing almost 70 years ago, the New York floating pool is making a comeback.
written by: Tim McKeough02.25.09 -
Floating Pool
There was once a steel-decked river barge, decommissioned and idle in Morgan City, Louisiana. Lonely and unused, it was purchased by the Neptune Foundation, a not-for-profit that constructs movable...
written by: Jamie Waugh09.24.08 -
Virtual National Architecture Week
The American Institute of Architects kicks off National Architecture Week next week, April 13-19, to continue the public dialogue about architecture in the US. This year they’ve further...
written by: Aaron Britt04.07.09 -
The Color of Palo Alto
Sam Yates will paint the town Palo Alto, once he figures out what color that is.
written by: Amara Holsteinphotos by: Jamie Kripke04.27.09 -
LA's Restored Overlook Park
This week LA unveiled its newest park, a 50-acre greenspace that sits 500 feet above the city just southwest of Downtown, on a plot of land that was historically part of the Baldwin Hills oil...
written by: Laure Joliet04.29.09 -
Park(ing) Day Website
ReBar is a San Francisco based architectural activists who create work "situated in the domains of environmental installation, urbanism and absurdity." They're perhaps best known as the...
05.01.09 -
Apples from Asphalt
Mobile City Farmstead is bringing a little bit of the heartland into the big city, one vacant lot at a time.
05.04.09 -
A Clearing in the Streets
Frederick Law Olmsted brought nature to New York in his carefully controlled design of Central Park. In that green oasis amid the city’s dense buildings, nature comes to urbanites in...
written by: Drew Himmelstein06.04.09 -
Dunkin' Danish
The thought of stripping down for a communal skinny dip in a salty strait might make Americans a bit squeamish, but in Denmark, it’s the stuff that can save a city.
written by: Miyoko Ohtake06.17.09 -
John Cronin and the Beacon Institute
For 35 years, John Cronin has safeguarded New York’s waterways, investigating dozens of pollution cases and authoring three laws to protect the Hudson River and its communities. So when...
written by: Julie Taraska09.29.09 -
Bike Rack by Studio Tractor
I got a note from Mike Tower of Studio Tractor Architecture the other day showing off his firm's collaboration with metalworker Peter Kirkiles, a cotter pin-inspired bike rack built in...
written by: Aaron Britt10.04.09 -
Charlie Cannon and Innovation Studio
Charlie Cannon is the energetic founder and teacher of RISD's award-winning Innovation Studio. An interdisciplinary class in its eleventh year, the studio invites industrial design, landscape...
written by: Tiffany Chu10.05.09 -
Play: Electric Slide
A group of Columbia University students have a good time reinventing the playground as a place to harness all that youthful energy.
written by: Marc Kristal11.16.09 -
An Architecture Prof Weighs in on Haiti
There are thousands of architects and designers in the Dwell audience and beyond who are contemplating how they can help with the massive rebuilding effort that will soon get underway in Port-au...
written by: Sarah Rich01.25.10 -
Olympic Sculpture Park
One of the highlights of my trip to Seattle was taking an early morning photo jog from downtown over to—and through—the Seattle Art Museum's Olympic Sculpture Park. Designed by Weiss...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake11.01.10 -
Robert Hammond: Chance Encounters
Robert Hammond has just returned from a year in Rome. While there he created an urban experiment called Chance Encounter on the Tiber, involving 100 chairs in public spaces in Italy. Now back in...
written by: Bradford Shellhammer12.13.10 -
Mack Scogin on OSU's Knowlton Hall
A decade ago, the Ohio State University Austin E. Knowlton School of Architecture called upon Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects to accomplish a formidable task: create the consummate teaching...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Ian Allen04.18.11 -
Yerba Buena Street Life Plan
Recently in San Francisco, the Yerba Buena Community Benefit District and CMG Landscape Architecture unveiled the Yerba Buena Street Life Plan. The plan is meant to serve as a master plan for the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake08.08.11 -
Cycle China: Week 1
In this special five-part series, we're riding along with SWA Group landscape designer Amirah Shahid as she cycles nearly 800 miles from Beijing to Shanghai. Join us as she tells us about her...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.05.11
