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Explore - Urban Planning
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Never Built: Los Angeles at A+D Architecture & Design Museum
Never Built: Los Angeles, an upcoming exhibition at the A+D Architecture and Design Museum Los Angeles (on view from July 28 through September 29) will highlight radical projects that would have...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.17.13 -
Radical Sustainability with Mitchell Joachim
Environmental thought leader, architect, and urban designer Mitchell Joachim joined Dwell editor Amanda Dameron Friday, June 21, at Dwell on Design, sharing his most innovative ideas for the city...
written by: Kim Derby06.23.12 -
Jane Jacobs Video
I was so pleased to come across this video recently on the website Grist—a nearly ten-minute film about creating healthy neighborhoods, narrated by the late, great urban writer and activist...
written by: Jaime Gillin04.30.12 -
Friday Finds 01.06.12
We're back this New Year with the first Friday Finds of 2012. Scroll down to find out more on New York's lost subway stations, Dutch designer Thomas Eyck, an art installation made up of thousands...
written by: Dwell Staff01.06.12 -
Touring Basel, Switzerland, Part 2
Last month I traveled to Basel, Switzerland, a European city first founded during the Roman Empire and still boasting beautiful buildings constructed more than 1,000 years agos. In Touring Basel,...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake10.12.11 -
Touring Basel, Switzerland, Part 1
At the end of September, I hopped across the pond to visit Basel, Switzerland, and the nearby Laufen bathrooms factory and showroom. Basel is bisected by the Rhine and sits just south of the...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Miyoko Ohtake10.10.11 -
Cycle China: Week 5
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 (find the previous posts here). Join us...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake10.05.11 -
Cycle China: Week 4
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 (find the previous posts here). Join us...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Amirah Shahid09.29.11 -
Cycle China: Week 3
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 (find the previous posts here). Join us...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake09.22.11 -
Building Community
With a clean-lined new loft building designed by El Dorado Inc., a fleet of hip galleries, and a burgeoning creative class, Wichita is anything but plains.
written by: Georgina Gustinphotos by: Jake Stangel09.16.11 -
Cycle China: Week 2
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 about her journey...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Amirah Shahid09.12.11 -
Friday Finds 9.09.11
Scroll down to see what the editors of Dwell thought was interesting, notable, and ever-so-findable in our weekly roundup of design discoveries.
written by: Diana Budds09.09.11 -
Amirah Shahid
Amirah Shahid is a landscape designer at SWA Group's San Francisco office. In September 2011, she embarked on an 800-mile solo cycling trip from Beijing to Shanghai. Her goal: to better understand...
09.08.11 -
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 -
Friday Finds 8.12.11
We present to you our weekly roundup of all things interesting, exciting, and design-related that we discovered on the web. Scroll down for a look at a new book on urbanism by Thom Mayne of...
written by: Diana Budds08.12.11 -
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 -
72 Hour Urban Action
The other week I attended a gathering at REBAR in San Francisco, in honor of Israeli architects Kerem Halbrecht and Gilly Karjevsky's cool project, 72 Hour Urban Action. Held last September and...
written by: Jaime Gillin05.03.11 -
Daniel Wallach of GreenTown
After an EF5 tornado devestated the tiny town of Greensburg, Kansas, (then populartion 1,500) in 2007, the residents came together and did the unbelievable: Rebuilt as a sustainable town. Leading...
written by: Miyoko Ohtake04.21.11 -
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 -
We're Not in Kansas Anymore
On May 4, 2007, Greensburg, Kansas, was wiped off the map. An EF5 tornado ravaged the small town of 1,400 residents, destroying or severely damaging 95 percent of the city. Less than a week later,...
written by: Miyoko Ohtakephotos by: Alec Soth04.06.11
