Tag: real-estate development
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The Mall as American Dream
Does America Still Want the American Dream? Twelve years after work began on a $2 billion entertainment complex in New Jersey, is another giant mall still an appealing vision? The Atlantic, Oct. 9, 2015 Driving north on the New Jersey Turnpike, past the proverbial smoke stacks and then across a brief interruption of marshland, a…
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Reimagining Suburbia
What if the world’s greatest architects began looking beyond the city limits? The American Scholar, Autumn 2015 Renzo Piano may be the most urban, and urbane, of great architects working today. He made his name in Paris in the 1970s, when he and Richard Rogers designed the Pompidou Center, a machine of a museum bristling…
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Young-Old: Deane Simpson Q&A
Simpson discusses his new book on the evolution and sociology of retirement communities. Architect, September 2015 In his new book, Deane Simpson, an architect who teaches at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen, chronicles the rise of communities built for older people—not the infirm elderly, but the active or “young-old.” Demographic and…
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Del Webb 2.0
The Subtle Shifts in Retirement Community Designs Del Webb, the country’s biggest builder of “active adult” housing, is changing its formula to appeal to Baby Boomers. CityLab, Sept. 8, 2015 On January 1, 1960, the Del E. Webb Corporation invited members of the public to see its new community, Sun City, Arizona. Sun City was…
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The Emerging Cuban Market
Is Cuba the Next Emerging Market for American Architects? Architect, July 2015 When Abby Gordon, a designer at Shepley Bulfinch in Boston, entered the competition to win her firm’s travel fellowship, she had only one destination in mind: Cuba. “I knew I had to go,” says Gordon, who has traveled extensively in Latin America and…
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