EXPERIMENTAL EXHIBIT TO OPEN MAY 18
CUMULUS BY SOFTLAB
An experimental exhibition titled “Cumulus: An Interactive Exhibition of Light and Sound” will open on Monday May 18, at the RAB Gallery in Chelsea. Created by the studio SOFTlab, the installation is inspired by the “complex geometries and deliberate yet erratic behavior of lighting” and intends to replicate “naturally occurring optical effects using both LED lighting and digital technology.” The exhibit runs through July 3rd but on May 18, the exhibit’s curator Karen Bookatz will interrogate SOFTlab’s Michael Szivos and she promises spirits and great views on RAB’s’s roof top for all in attendance. The event runs from 6:30 and 8:30 at 532 W 24th Street. For more information, call (888) RAB-1000 or visit RAB Gallery’s website.
NEW YORK CITY JUST MADE BIKING DOWN COBBLESTONE STREETS WAY MORE FUN
THE VARICK BIKE LANE. (BRANDEN KLAYKO / AN)
Cobblestone streets are beautiful to walk around and add charm to historic neighborhoods, but biking down these bumpy thoroughfares is another story. New York City has solved that problem with a new design treatment to a block-long cobblestone bike lane along Varick Street in the city’s Tribeca neighborhood.
WHAT’S A PROTECTED BIKE INTERSECTION? SALT LAKE CITY WOULD LIKE TO SHOW YOU WITH THE NATION’S FIRST INSTALLATION
SALT LAKE CITY’S PLANNED PROTECTED BIKE INTERSECTION. (COURTESY SLC.GOV)
Let’s be honest, if you were asked to guess which American city is getting the country’s most advanced piece of bike infrastructure, you would say San Francisco, Portland, or maybe even Pittsburgh. A handful of you might point to Chicago or New York, but very few—if any—of you would go with Salt Lake City, Utah.
NEW YORK CITY PLANNING A PEDESTRIAN-SAFETY OVERHAUL THE DANGEROUS APPROACH TO THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE
THE MANHATTAN BRIDGE APPROACH AS-IS. (COURTESY NYC DOT)
Vision Zero is coming to the dangerous and traffic-clogged Manhattan Bridge approach in Chinatown. The New York City Department of Transportation (NYCDOT) has presented a plan to rearrange the tangle of streets that connect to the bridge, create new space for pedestrians, and update traffic flows.
NASA CROWDSOURCING PROPOSALS FOR A BUILT ENVIRONMENT ON MARS: SHELTER, FOOD, WATER, AND COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS NEEDED
(COURTESY NASA)
NASA is on a mission to end our parasitic dependence on earthly resources with a planned hijack of Mars. Through the Journey to Mars challenge, NASA invites applicants to submit proposals for a built environment on the red planet that is conducive to long-term human habitation and sustenance.
FEDS TOUT NEW $100 MILLION BUS RAPID TRANSIT PLANS FOR METRO INDIANAPOLIS
CITY TERRAIN, DEVELOPMENT, MIDWEST, NEWS, TRANSPORTATION, URBANISM
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
CHRIS BENTLEY.
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
CHRIS BENTLEY.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SECRETARY ANTHONY FOXX IN INDIANA. (COURTESY WANE-TV NEWSCHANNEL 15)
United States Department of Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx recently delivered some welcome news to proponents of bus rapid transit (BRT) in Indianapolis.
“The city is on throes of launching something unique,” Foxx said in April while touring the proposed system’s first leg, the 28-mile, $100 million electric bus route known as the Red Line. “Transit can be the difference between someone having a shot and not having one in the 21st-century economy.” READ MORE
GENSLER’S KRISTOPHER STUART ON HOUSTON’S FACADES SCENE
ARCHITECTURE, SKYSCRAPERS, SOUTHWEST, SUSTAINABILITY, TECHNOLOGY
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
ANNA BERGREN MILLER.
FRIDAY, MAY 15, 2015
ANNA BERGREN MILLER.
DESIGNLAB RE-WRAPS RUDOLPH
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DESIGNLAB ARCHITECTS CONCEIVED OF THE ADDITION AS A VITRINE SHOWCASING PAUL RUDOLPH’S WORK. (JONATHAN HILLYER)
Transparent addition puts historic Brutalist library on display.
When designLAB architects signed on (with associate architect Austin Architects) to renovate and expand the Claire T. Carney Library at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, they faced a particular challenge: addressing the college’s changing educational and sustainability priorities while respecting the legacy of the campus’ original architect and planner, Paul Rudolph. “We never intended to try to preserve the building 100 percent,” explained designLAB’s Ben Youtz. “It was more about understanding Rudolph’s goals for the project, then re-presenting them to meet current needs.” READ MORE
STEP INSIDE MVRDV’S PSYCHADELIC SKYLINE DESIGN FOR SEOUL’S HIGH LINE
ARCHITECTURE, CITY TERRAIN, INTERNATIONAL, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, URBANISM
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2015
MATT SHAW.
THURSDAY, MAY 14, 2015
MATT SHAW.
SEOUL SKYGARDEN BY MVRDV
Just when you were getting tired of more High Line copies, Dutch architects MVRDV has breathed new life into the genre with their winning proposal for the “Seoul Skygarden,” a 3,000 foot long section of disused elevated highway. Their design doesn’t simply reappropriate the space into a linear public parkway—it uses the original 1970s structure as the basis for an urban horticultural extravaganza.
BJARKE INGELS OPENS THIS ADDITION TO HIS HIGH SCHOOL WITH A PARKOUR VIDEO OF A KID JUMPING OFF THE WALLS
AERIAL VIEW OF THE HIGH SCHOOL. (IWAN BAAN)
Since Bjarke Ingels graduated from Old Hellerup High School near Copenhagen, he’s obviously become a bit of an architectural sensation. But that doesn’t mean Ingels is too cool for school, specifically his former high school. In 2013, the architect created an undulating recreation center for the school’s central courtyard that has a ribbed, almost cathedral-like wood ceiling. At the courtyard-level, the structure forms a a man-made hill where students can hang out between classes. And that was just the start of it.
HERE’S THE NEWEST EDITION OF YKK AP’S VIDEO SERIES, “I AM AN ARCHITECT”
“I AM AN ARCHITECT.” (COURTESY YKK AP)
You may remember that at last year’s AIA conference in Chicago, YKK AP released a video titled Do The Architect as part of their “I am an Architect” series. Now, with the AIA conference going on in Atlanta, YKK AP has released the next installment. While last year’s video was all a mashup of architects dancing, the new video is about how some people just know they are meant to be architects when they grow up.
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