Tag: Architecture
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Lost Vegas: A Night Walk on Fremont Street
Adam Nowek presents a photoessay of Fremont Street, the main gambling and entertainment district in the city Las Vegas.
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Theme Park City Zaandam
Zaandam’s city centre has changed remarkably. Dionne Poulussen defends the contested project and stresses Zaandam’s appeal being urban yet affordable.
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The Walking Dead: Rethinking the Amsterdam Canal
In this article, architect Louise de Hullu and urban sociologist Leon van Keulen investigate new possibilities for a walkable Amsterdam canal.
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Celebrating South China’s Urban Villages
Adam Nowek (@adamnowek) interviews architect and urban design professor Stefan Al about his new book about South China’s urban villages.
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Revising the Industrialized Cityscape
Urbanisation calls for new solutions for a greener urban environment. Matt Imperato shows us some architectural ways of making tomorrow’s cities greener.
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Work(ing) in Progress: The Future of the Workspace
Isabella Rossen introduces us to Axel Springer’s new Media Campus in Berlin, designed by OMA as an answer to new forms of working.
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De Ceuvel Amsterdam: Sustainable Creative Collaboration?
An ecologically smart creative space opened up in Amsterdam: Will this be a prototype of succesful bottom-up / top-down collaboration?
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Astana: A Mirage in the Steppes
Steffen Fokkema reports from Kazakhstan’s real-life architectural playground in the capital city of Astana.
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Filming Cities: Urbanized (2011)
In this month’s Filming Cities, Jolien Groot reviews Urbanized, a documentary that takes us on an exciting world tour to teach about urban design.
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Public Space and Urban Planning: A Stepchild Relationship?
Public space in urban planning has long been a difficult relation. The ‘Seestadt Aspern’ project looks at public space in a particular, innovative way. bla