metropolismag as a 20yearold intern in the london office of richard rogers james corner could barely contain his frustration. it was the early 1980s and they were working on the first pieces of the transformation of the london docklands from derelict industrial port to stylish commercial district... read more......
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and finally get caught up here.a weve missed you.a well be back with a slightly more hecticschedule friendly format.a more rapidfire more breakneck less heavy on original prose.a not that there was ever too much.a more true to the original reb log intentions.a just getting you the facts.a quick and clean. now since weve got about 48 tabs op......
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steven holl has used watercolors drawn each morning for 30 years to make architecture. via designobserver posted in art new notabletagged architectu raldrawing s architecture stevenholl watercolors......
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fix our energy addiction here call for entries win 10000 fix our energy addiction rising energy costs present new design problems. redesign the broken models of the 20th century. challenge our patterns of living and working in a fuelhungry worldcome up with solutions that connect us make us more efficient more humane. ask yourself how would i bring work closer t......
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new yorks budget battle a case study for obama mother jones hearst tower wins international highrise award inhabitat car toonist8 217s take on the state budget and unions matt davies state has highest electric rates in nation pulp blog costs not a deterrent for building green for now strict constructionist more water boa......
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images via metropolis and field operations a witty repurposing trash diggers as billboards. from a recent metropolis article on james corner and field operations on a blustery friday afternoon corner drives out to staten island. in the parking lot of a nearby mall we meet up with ellen neises associate principal at field operations who leads the project and then follow a g......
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photography has always had a tenuous relationship with the real word but as we get further into the digital age the links between photographs and reality are disappearing. we entered the age of photography with an industrial attack on the landscape and portrait artist. before the daguerreotype only artists could document the world for posterity. after anyone could do so and thus we have an ......
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the writer john hockenberry has soured on the postmodern metropolis views he airs not unironically in the nov. 08 issue of metropolis . the november issue is not yet online. from the ground megacities have trouble conveying a distinctive skyline he writes. shape and texture are best appreciated from the air. from the foreground sheer density trumps all ......
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...osas de obtener una pieza de arribayviene diseaadores antes de que se quebra por la competencia internacional. es bueno ser un joven diseaador en espaaa. leer mas fuenteme tropolisma g.com diseaador espaaa franco good spain a por uvas comparte este articulo......
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starting bright and early at 9am on thursday november 6th the reimagining cities urban design after the age of oil international symposium will be open to the public until 5pm on its opening day. the symposium proper starts at 8am on friday the 7th with registration and an opening plenary not long after. next american city will be onhand for three days of events at the sym......
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metro development center green roof construction the metro development center on fifth street near muhammad ali blvd. is about to become the first louisville government building to sprout a green roof. aconstruction began in september and is scheduled to be wrapped up in the next couple weeks ahead of an estimated december projection. athe new roof is expected to reduce energy costs ......
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you probably thought we were going to write about the generous incentives and rebates offered by austin energy or portland or where half of their power comes from alternative energy sources.a or perhaps san francisco where theyre turning wasted roof space into collection points for solar power. nope it isnt any of these.a according to a recent article in fast com......
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at click suite were researching the feasibility of an outdoorled installation at a top secret location somewhere in wellington. its in the early stages but whats evident is that just like tall building envy theres led envy. but is bighuge massive always better china has the biggest led display right now but as usual dubai has plans to top that. plans are afo......
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ignite baltimore 1 speaker elizabeth evitts dickinson wrote a great review in metropolis of her experiences preparing for the event and what it felt like to be there. it gives a great feel for the evening. thanks elizabeth ......
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hiroshi nakamura is a young japanese architect who plans to change the world one atmosphere at a time. nakamuras recent dancing trees singing birds project gained a significant amount of press when it was completed earlier this year. looking through their work it quickly becomes clear what nakamuras true magician skill is atmospherics. many of the projects house ges......
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...kinson wrote up an excellent description of ignite and her experiences preparing for it in metropolis magazine it was her first time assembling a presentation using powerpoint httpwww .metropoli smag.comp ovp2553 ignite baltimore 2 will be 2509. see you there......
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dan roams recent book the back of the napkin solving problems and selling ideas with pictures has a great website with stick figure animations to explain how visual thinking can be employed to understand problems and communicate solutions in an interview at metropolis magazine roam mentions a lot of your work involves basic information design. are you a fan of edward......
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image cartogram showing countries military spending via just a little something to be proud of especially since our schools are a mess our health care system sucks you have to literally sell yourself to a bank to get money for college people cant afford homes anymore etc etc etc. but hey we have shown the world that our penisenlargement pills have been working and tha......
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asie reach new york first time ive noticed it nr train 34th st had no idea that was still there.a guess i havent ben down there for 3 or 4 years.......
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friendly atheist man sees hindu lord ganesh in flower i always wondered if adherents to nonchristian religions saw their deities in banal objects why should toast favor jesus or mary and then i saw this and realized that the looniness was universal. theres something reassuring in that. tags popculture veken apple comes out against californias prop 8 ......
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city pushes new model for highdensity public housing. metropolis video of councilmember brewer discussing her technology agenda. broadband advisory committee information technology helps citys public hospitals achieve excellence. government healthit via fiercehealthit report calls hybrid taxis dangerous. yellowcabnyc via streetsblog n......
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innovation from the innovators metropolis asked some of the worlds most forwardthinking architectural and engineering firms to name their newest green products and systems. their responses provide a snapshot of stateoftheart green building. metropolis mag reports......
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from metropolis magazine oct. 2008 by john quale asst. professor of architectu re 14 7im very excited about the way the current generation has recognized that design can have a positive impact on peoples lives whether its through reduced environmental impact or improved housing. thats important. what we need now is to get more sophisticated about how we go about t......
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design activismor just good practice their professional code of ethics obliges architects and interior designers to work for the benefit of human health safety and welfare. but whose health safety and welfare are these professionals protecting who will design for the three billion slum dwellers expected to populate the worlds cities by 2050 see also publ......
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parking day 2008 on montague st. in brooklyn heights. for those of us who lived through the election of 1972 sarah palins rhetorical approach is like a horrible flashback. richard nixons political strategy was predicated on his insight that no one liked him very much so to win he had to create a situation where americans were more focused on hating each other than on disliki......
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