Tag: urban design
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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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Hearing Loss in the City
What It’s Like to Be Hearing Impaired* in a Big, Dense City An artist tackles the challenges of navigating dense urban areas with hearing loss. CityLab, Sept. 18, 2015 The multimedia artist Trish Adams began losing her hearing in her mid-twenties. She now wears high-end hearing aids in both ears and continues to communicate through…
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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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Silver Spring Library Review
Silver Spring’s Ho-Hum Library The Washington Post, Aug. 2, 2015 The new Silver Spring branch of the Montgomery County library opened to much fanfare. The building is big — five stories, three of which are for the library — and sits on one of the busiest corners downtown. Designed by the Lukmire Partnership, an Arlington…
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