The Forum draws connections between Omnibus content and current events at the intersection of design and the built environment of New York, plus other stuff worth knowing about: news, opinions, feature follow-ups, and reports from the field.
LIFEEDITED ON SULLIVAN STREET
The video above shows Graham Hill, the sharp eco-entrepreneur behind TreeHugger.com and those supercool, bodega-chic ceramic cups, describing his new venture, LifeEdited, an approach to sustainable living based on living in smaller spaces with much …
A couple of months ago, we spoke with Dylan Thuras, co-founder of Atlas Obscura, about curiosity, exploration and the compiling of a ”collaborative compendium of amazing places that aren’t found in your average guidebook.” Our conversation was in anticipation of …
MOYNIHAN COMMENCEMENT
The demolition of the original Pennsylvania Station sparked furor at the loss of a grand entrance to the city. Renovations to the current Penn Station have been on hold due to insufficient funding for years now. But hope …
THE LIMITS OF METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATIONS
“The jurisdictional boundaries of our municipalities are basically relics of history that bear almost no current relationship to how the economy or the environment actually operates. As a result, our crazy-quilt system of local government …
Join Urban Omnibus and the Design Trust for Public Space for a field trip to Dutch Kills Green, a one-acre public space at the eastern end of Queens Plaza. Wednesday, May 23, 6:30pm.
NYC 100 YEARS AGO
The New York City Municipal Archives have digitized and made available online 870,000 images dating back to the mid 1800s. The treasure trove of images tells the story of a city in its adolescence. You can …
Stillspotting nyc is a two-year multidisciplinary project organized by the Guggenheim Museum’s Architecture and Urban Studies department that is making its way to each of the city’s five boroughs (read our review of the second installment here - Ed.…
In 2006, the Architectural League partnered with Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz and Mark Shepard to organize a three-day symposium to explore the implications of situated technologies and ubiquitous computing on the built environment, to encourage architects and designers to contribute …
TIMES SQUARE REVAMP
What defines an edge condition? How is the street differentiated from the sidewalk? For the past couple of years, Times Square has been the site of an experiment: what happens when you take away traffic from one …
MANHATTAN MEMORIOUS
Back in 2009, Irene Cheng and Brett Snyder took us on a tour of the unbuilt city through their smartphone app of speculative proposals for New York, the Museum of the Phantom City. Recently, for the 2011 …
