The Architectural League is seeking individuals or teams of artists and designers to create light installation and projection mapping projects for our annual Beaux Arts Ball. Download the complete Request for Proposals here (PDF). The Ball will take place on September 25, 2010, at the American Academy of Arts
Here at Urban Omnibus we have been fortunate over the past two years to find a series of outstanding interns who have proved themselves to be integral to this project’s development and operation. With August’s arrival, we again bid one team of associates farewell and now begin the search for a few hard-working interns-to-be for…
I recently spent the better part of five days sitting on a cinderblock in the courtyard of Museo Experimental el Eco, listening to various creative people, mostly from Mexico, talk about their work. I am not entirely certain why I did this, but I am glad that I did. The event…
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UPDATE 6.9.10: Check out the complete Postópolis! schedule and watch a livestream of the event on both Domus and postopolis.org.
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It should come as no surprise that I love to talk (some might say, can’t shut up) about cities — problems…
Update: You can now view Archipelago, an original Urban Omnibus video production, exhibited in The City We Imagined / The City We Made, that explores a day in the life of five New York neighborhoods: Hunts Point, Jamaica, Mariner’s Harbor, Downtown Brooklyn, and Chelsea, here on Urban Omnibus…
Guess what? Today is our first birthday. So as we begin to toddle our way out of beta and into new territory, the time has come to take stock – not only to remember the past year of features, forum posts and meet-ups, but…
Welcome to a special, League-themed edition of our Friday missive, rounding up an incredibly busy (in a good way!) week here at Urban Omnibus/Architectural League headquarters. In addition to unpacking boxes while walls and bookshelves are built up around us, this week also brought us a completely redesigned…
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When the League said goodbye to the Urban Center, Madison Avenue reminded us that innovative infrastructure often lies just outside your doorstep. |
Welcome to the brand new Omnibus homepage! This week instead of our regular feature, we invite you to poke around, check out features and forum posts you may have missed, and get to know the Omnibus collection even better than you already do.
We have so much possibility ahead of us. We have just inaugurated a president who wants to renew every area of our national life – including our cities. President Obama has lived in the three biggest cities in the United States…
