The idea that an architect could design a city from scratch, in a top-down way, is relatively new.
If we could design a city from scratch... we would not do it!
Gale hired Kohn Pedersen Fox Architects to design the city. (Among its projects: the Mohegan Sun Casino and the Shanghai World Financial Center.) The plans proved to be a little difficult because the landfill didn't yet exist.
Dundee UNESCO City of Design hosted their counterparts from Mexico City last month for a Small Society Ideas Lab.
Thomas the Apostle School in Miami, Florida , whose city-design, Infinitum X, earned them a Future City National Award for Best Management of Water Resources.
New York City design e-commerce startup Fab.com has temporarily shut down its shipping service due to Hurricane Sandy.
The white paper will echo the Rogers view that many of the ills of poor areas are due to poor city design.
Legend has it that Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah was so impressed by his design for the city, that Cornut was granted his freedom.
Eyes in the design world turned to New York City this week as New York Design Week officially launched.
Foster and Partners, an architectural firm based in London, has done the initial design work for Masdar City.
Multi-heritage city-design team innovates for urban water management: Emily Ocon , Catalina Rincon-Arcila , and Amanda Gonzalez are students at St.
This design, ideal for city driving's stops and starts, allows the diesel engine to be shut off when the vehicle is stopped or decelerating.
The ship is themed on New York City, with a colorful mural on the exterior hull design by pop artist Peter Max featuring the city skyline and the Statue of Liberty.
"This was purely based on time, " said David Burney, commissioner of the city Department of Design and Construction.
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Fuller founded WET (water entertainment technologies) Design, now of Universal City, Calif.
Dermot principal Stephen Benjamin said he respected Extell and the city's design work, but he wanted to use an architect that he selected himself.
So, to make it habitable, 2, 330 square kilometres of sheep grazing territory were cleared out before American Walter Burley Griffin stepped in to design the new geometrically exact city.
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One entrepreneur, Kathy Canfield Shepard who founded Canfield Design Studios in New York City to help arts groups with marketing and website services, has worked with Nina since she incorporated in 2001.
So the city pulled that design off the streets in 2011, leaving regular double-decker buses in service and shipping the bendys off to other cities in the United Kingdom that have more spacious streets.
In the workshop, discussions of design extended to re-thinking city infrastructure.
The decor is unlike anything the city has seen before, infusing a bit of London and New York design via hanging chrome bedside lamps and animal print fabrics into a city proud of its colonial heritage.
The project will be a key part of the city council's grand design for the seafront.
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The City's Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge allowed us to build a team around this vision and share it with the rest of the community.
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Docklands, the great new commercial heart of the city, is virtually a design-award-free zone, apart from Canary Wharf tube station, which is (obviously) mostly underground.
The river restoration effort started five years ago when politicians assembled residents to help design a new master plan for the city of 188, 000 about 25 miles east of Lake Michigan.
Sources close to the project say that the city will award a contract to design, deploy and maintain the network on Monday.
If you have a few days to meander, "Toronto's hip new neighbourhood: West Queen West" offers a day-long itinerary for exploring the city's newest art and design district.
"This is the largest investment project in the city today, covering all aspects of the area, from underground utilities, transport and energy resources, " said Svetlana Murdaya of the city's agency for Urban Design Policy and Development.
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