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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 project. The…
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 Space and…
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, The Putting Lot is the two-month-old miniature golf course installation on a vacant lot in Bushwick.  The project is the result of a design
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 open design/build…
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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Reimagining Red Hook Finalists
Lisa Chamberlain takes a look at selected competition entries from Reinventing Red Hook, a design competition that aims to make Red Hook the most bicycle-friendly neighborhood in New York City.
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Reinventing Grand Army Plaza
The Design Trust for Public Space and the Grand Army Plaza Coalition launched an ideas competition to generate new visions for New York’s “greatest unrealized asset.”
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Reinventing Grand Army Plaza: Finalists
Click here to browse through the thirty finalists of the Reinventing Grand Army Plaza Ideas Competition.
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