Tag: social design
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La Casa Review
Concrete Details: La Casa in Columbia Heights Is a Rare Aesthetic and Policy Success Washington City Paper, Oct. 15, 2015 The best building that’s gone up in the District in recent months isn’t a swish law office or a deluxe condo tower—although you might easily mistake it for either of those things, with its double-height lobby…
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Social Design’s Rise & Fall
One Mayor’s Downfall Killed the Design Project That Could’ve Changed Everything Next City, Feb. 23, 2015 On June 29, 2014, the four city staffers who made up the San Diego Civic Innovation Lab were hard at work all around the city, never mind that it was a Sunday. Ilisa Goldman was in Encanto, hurrying along…
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Urban-Think Tank
Going Top Down Urban-Think Tank, best known for its vertical gyms in the Caracas barrios, has a new strategy for building in Third World slums. Architect, May 2014 When I call him, Alfredo Brillembourg is eating lunch in Zurich, on a terrace beside the lake, the Swiss Alps on the horizon. He describes the scene…
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