Wednesday, March 7th, 2012
At the first annual Real Estate Weekly Women’s Forum, Patricia Lancaster spoke on a panel about infrastructure and public policy. She warned that, “In order for the U.S. to stay competitive, we have to deal with our infrastructure. It has to get sexier because it needs to get funded.” In an interview about multiculturalism and community with The Guardian’s Andrew Anthony, Richard Sennett (pictured at left) argued that “Workplace communities are getting weaker and weaker. Modern capitalism doesn’t encourage much interaction because it’s highly stratifying.” Speaking about the massive ‘Barangaroo’ park in Sydney, Peter Walker said ”We tried to make the landscape itself a playground.”
Tags: Andrew Anthony, Barangaroo, capitalism, infrastructure, multiculturalism, Patricia Lancaster, Peter Walker, public policy, Real Estate Weekly, Real Estate Weekly Women's Forum, Richard Sennett, Sydney, The Guardian
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Monday, March 21st, 2011
Detroit is abuzz with talk about Omar Blaik’s revitalization plan for the historic Midtown neighborhood, which recently got extensive write-ups from the Detroit News and the Free-Press; the latest issue of Dwell features a two-page spread on Alexander Gorlin’s The Brook development in the Bronx; a torquing tower designed by Daniel Libeskind will soon join a new cluster of skyscrapers rising in Jerusalem; John Palmieri recently visited Belfast as a guest lecturer for the city’s State of the City Development Debate; the Architect’s Newspaper recently visited Moshe Safdie’s studio for a look at his current projects, while the Huffington Post featured a slideshow of the architect’s daring Golden Dream Bay Sky Garden Apartments in Qinhuangdao; Richard Sennett wrote an article in the Guardian on the recent funding scandal at the London School of Economics; New York magazine talked to Ethel Sheffer about the uniquely depressing quality of long-vacant storefronts in newer buildings; Michael Stepner spoke to the Voice of San Diego about the challenges presented by “invisible parks”; construction is just getting underway to transform a disused stretch of Sydney’s waterfront into the 15-acre Headlands Park, designed by Peter Walker; and HuffPo visited the serenely swooping gardens (pictured at left), designed by John Wong, at the base of the world’s tallest building, Dubai’s Burj Khalifa.
Tags: adaptive re-use, Alexander Gorlin, Architect's Newspaper, Architecture, Belfast, Bronx, Burj Khalifa, daniel libeskind, debate, Detroit, Dubai, Dwell, education, Ethel Sheffer, Golden Dream Bay Sky Garden Apartments, Headlands Park, Ireland, Israel, Jerusalem, John Palmieri, John Wong, landscape architecture, London School of Economics, manhattan, Michael Stepner, Midtown, moshe safdie, New York City, Omar Blaik, parks, Peter Walker, Qinhuangdao, retail, revitalization, Richard Sennett, safety, San Diego, skyscraper, SWA Group, Sydney, The Brook, Urban Design, waterfront
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Monday, September 20th, 2010
Jane Thompson will give a lecture at D-Crit in New York, entitled Rediscovering Design Research, on 9/22; Rosemary Wakeman will discuss her book, The Heroic City: Paris 1945-58, at NYU’s La Maison Française, also on 9/22; Richard Dattner will join a panel about the Lindsay administration’s adventure playgrounds at the Museum of the City of New York on 9/27; Craig Dykers will participate on the panel Universities as City Builders, to be moderated by Ken Greenberg, in Toronto on 9/29; the exhibition Interior Urbanism/Portman Space, featuring the work of John Portman, will be on view at the University of Technology Sydney through 10/1; a pavilion designed by Daniel Libeskind will serve as one of the centerpieces of the Seoul Design Fair 2010, which will run through 10/7; and Elisabetta Terragni’s adaptive reuse of the Trento Tunnels will be on view at the Venice Biennale, which runs through 11/21.
Tags: adventure playground, Central Park, Craig Dykers, d-crit, daniel libeskind, Design Research, Elisabetta Terragni, Jane Thompson, john portman, Ken Greenberg, Museum of the City of New York, New York City, NYU, Paris, Richard Dattner, Rosemary Wakeman, seoul, Sydney, The Heroic City, Toronto, Trento Tunnels, venice biennale
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At the first annual Real Estate Weekly Women’s Forum, Patricia Lancaster spoke on a panel about infrastructure and public policy. She warned that, “In order for the U.S. to stay competitive, we have to deal with our infrastructure. It has to get sexier because it needs to get funded.” In an interview about multiculturalism and community with The Guardian’s Andrew Anthony, Richard Sennett (pictured at left) argued that “Workplace communities are getting weaker and weaker. Modern capitalism doesn’t encourage much interaction because it’s highly stratifying.” Speaking about the massive ‘Barangaroo’ park in Sydney, Peter Walker said ”We tried to make the landscape itself a playground.”
