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.
Legend has it that Sultan Sidi Mohammed ben Abdallah was so impressed by his design for the city, that Cornut was granted his freedom.
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.
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.
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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The project will be a key part of the city council's grand design for the seafront.
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Rahul Mehrotra, chair of the department of urban planning and design at the Harvard Design School, has a team on site mapping and photographing the city that has sprung up here.
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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.
The chosen design is complicated and the building is located on a difficult city centre site in Edinburgh.
In 1940 he became the first head of the industrial design department at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, where he organized a contemporary furniture competition that launched the careers of Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames.
"This was purely based on time, " said David Burney, commissioner of the city Department of Design and Construction.
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Foster and Partners, an architectural firm based in London, has done the initial design work for Masdar City.
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.
The chapter called, The Contextual City, could not be written without discussing the design tools created by Autodesk.
Eyes in the design world turned to New York City this week as New York Design Week officially launched.
"The Reinvent Payphones Design Challenge was an opportunity to reimagine a piece of outdated city infrastructure in the age of mobile, " said the Smart Sidewalks team.
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The iconic design of NYC Loop and the relationship of its public space units to the city's neighborhoods will become an integral part of New York City's urban identity.
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The Department of City Planning will be releasing more detailed design guidelines on April 8 in its race to get the rezoning certified before the Bloomberg administration disperses.
But the city is the power centre of Sweden, from politics to technology to design.
The idea that an architect could design a city from scratch, in a top-down way, is relatively new.
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 city and Korea in general has a fascination with technology and design and is constantly positioning itself on the cutting edge of both.
As Vice President of Branding for Highgate Hotels, Susan Jaques oversees brand strategy for a group of over 40 properties including the Paramount Hotel in New York City and the Parc 55 Hotel in San Francisco and takes on design projects in her role too everything from overhauling hotel lobbies to re-doing specialty suites.
They also said the design of the building is not of a high enough quality for such an important part of the city.
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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