Tag: architecture
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Washington Canal Park
Block Party: An urban park adds a bustling social center to a newly redeveloped Washington, D.C., neighborhood. Architectural Record, August 2013 On a hot June day in Washington Canal Park, swimsuited kids kicked a ball as they splashed around a shallow fountain. Close by, a mother hung a piñata from one of the park’s looping…
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Don’t Forget the Burbs
Architect, May 2013 Remember when we were going to save the suburbs? In 2008, Ellen Dunham-Jones, AIA, and June Williamson released Retrofitting Suburbia, a handbook for turning sprawl into walkable, sustainable, more urban places. The book got national media attention, Dunham-Jones gave a TED talk, and for a while, dead malls were the topic du…
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Socially Yours
Landscape Architecture, April 2013 Banal tweets (“Just had an awesome sandwich at the Corner Cafe!”), status updates steeped in false modesty (“So humbled to be named Attorney of the Year”), and viral cat videos: None of these would exist without social media. Over the past few years, traffic on websites like Facebook and Twitter has…
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Cracking the Sarcophagus
The Architect’s Newspaper, March 7, 2013 Following last year’s National Mall Design Competition, which awarded plans to restore the ecology of the Mall and nestle a grass-roofed pavilion into its turf, landscape urbanism has chalked up another win in Washington. This time, however, there’s a starchitect name attached, as well as $50 million in private…
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Bing in the Burbs
The Architect’s Newspaper, Feb. 27, 2013 Ellen Dunham-Jones and June Williamson put the phrase “retrofitting suburbia” into the urbanist lexicon back in 2008, when they published a book about a movement to turn dying malls and car-choked strips into mixed-use, walkable places. Slowed by the recession, the movement roared back into view in Maryland this…
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