technology
The Omnibus Roundup – Urban farming, budgets, TIGER and nano-helicopters
Food, urban farming and policy are on our minds this week, (by the way -- Foodprint NYC is still on, snowstorm or no snowstorm), and it looks like the issues are peaking interest near and far: Architecture Lab reports on a project…
The Omnibus Roundup – BigApps, pedestrians and transit, Clip-on follow-up, maps and architecture-centric art
App-lovers take note: the NYC Economic Development Corporation has presented the winners of its NYC BigApps contest. The winners, who received cash prizes ranging from $500 to $5,000, include the grand prize-winning WayFinder NYC, an augmented reality application that helps users find the nearest…
Toward the Sentient City: Interviews
Listen to designers reflect on how their work explores implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urban space.
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New York Transit Data: Is the Future Wide Open?
I don't know about you, but I've been hearing a lot of people wondering what's so special about the L train and the 34th Street crosstown bus that allows these transit routes to make known the ETA of the next train or bus? And then, just when civic-minded tech developers take matters in their own hands and push schedules onto the mobile devices of riders, they get the smack-down from...
The Omnibus Roundup – data vis., Concourse, solar trash compactors, archiCULTURE
First up, some news and commentary: the Gowanus rezoning is on hold; the shovel-ready tunnel link that will double the number of Penn Station's Jersey commuters proves once again that much stimulus thinking is short-sighted; and Omnibus fan and fellow cinephile Leni Schwendinger discusses, with a leading…
Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice
Last Tuesday night, the Architectural League hosted "Closing the Gap: Information Models in Contemporary Design Practice," a panel of talks marking the publication of a book in the Architectural Design series of the same name. Edited by Richard Garber, partner of GRO Architects and director of…
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