Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, Part 2
What if one neighborhood were a place where the creativity that marks city life was championed?
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Elma van Boxel and Kristian Koreman
"It is the ultimate virtue for architecture in an urban context to create or activate the public domain."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Olatunbosun Obayomi
"The city can be likened to a living microbe."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Charles Montgomery
"Comfort is an infinitely relative commodity, and thus a marker of status."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Maria Nicanor
"We asked for a space in which we could do everything and anything."
BMW Guggenheim Lab: Confronting Comfort | Omar Freilla
"Most of us live in our own little bubbles. We know the world that we walk in every single day."
The Omnibus Roundup — Wayfinding, Green Cities, Safety Zones, Water and Phytoremediation
WALK THIS WAY This week, the New York City Department of Transportation released a request for proposals to develop a comprehensive pedestrian “wayfinding system” in four districts: ...
The Omnibus Roundup — Tech Capital, Friendly Fourth Ave, Greenpoint Greenhouse, End of Amtrak, and NYC’s Bike War
THE NEXT TECH CAPITAL: NYC This past March, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) solicited a request for expressions of interest (RFEI) to global research institutions for ideas to establish a future “applied science and engineering research campus” somewhere in New York City. NYCEDC received 18 proposals from top schools that included...