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SUPERFRONT

Mitch McEwen founded SUPERFRONT as a gallery and project space for architectural experimentation. Listen to her share its backstory and check out glimpses of the space in action.

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The Omnibus Roundup – climate change, bus lanes, outer boroughs on film and underground tunnels

Image courtesy of Sustainable South Bronx via NPR

With temperatures in the triple digits earlier this week, residents in major cities like New York, Washington and Philadelphia felt the heat more so than those living in more rural areas due to the heat island effect. That said…

Minds in the Gutter

What if sewers no longer overflowed when it rained? Kate Zidar talks about designing for stormwater management and why it is crucial to our health, our waterways and our city.

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Call for Proposals: reNEWable Times Square

Calling all architects, designers and artists! Now that the city has made the Times Square pedestrian plazas permanent, the Department of Transportation is launching a design competition to “refresh” the existing temporary treatments while the longer, separate process begins to design the permanent plazas and undergo a capital street reconstruction…

Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Book Released!

Last week we celebrated our first year of being online, which also means it’s been one year since we shared one of our very first features, a multi-part video and audio piece that chronicled the Reinventing Grand Army Plaza design competition organized by the Design Trust for Public…

Park-in-a-Box

Transportation Alternatives and the Open Planning Project have launched a new competition, POP.Park, that asks the creative among us to design portable, affordable, pre-fabricated pop-up parks. The idea starts with Park(ing) Day, the annual reclaim-a-parking-space-as-public-park event, and takes it a step further, aiming to…

The Putting Lot, Revisited
Yesterday’s break from the 2009 New York Summer Monsoon had me itching to do what any self-respecting urbanist should: go putt-putting in Brooklyn.
For those who don’t remember
Imagining Recovery

Architecture students Wayne Congar and Troy Therrien share the back story of the design competition they organized to invite new visions of post-financial crisis America.

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The Putting Lot

Speaking of what you can do with the city, The Putting Lot is a collective of professionals from different backgrounds that will bring miniature golf to a vacant lot in Bushwick for the summer. Designs for the course’s nine holes are currently being solicited through an…

Reimagining Red Hook

Lisa Chamberlain explores the Forum for Urban Design’s interdisciplinary design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City.

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