"Some suggestions on how to spend $800 billion January 2009 [ Page 1 of 2 ] By Michael Sorkin Dear President Obama, I am extremely heartened that you are planning to...
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"Rem Koolhaas TVCC building in China on fire 9 February, 2009 By Dan Stewart Online reports claim fire has broken out on OMA’s showcase development in Beijing A signature tower designed by Rem Koolhaas is on fire, according to various internet reports. The TVCC tower,...
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"Metro eyes sky-rise farmingSurrey may be home to region's first vertical greenhouseKelly Sinoski, Vancouver SunPublished: Tuesday, October 21, 2008Rooftop gardens and vertical greenhouses could be a sign of the times in Metro Vancouver as the region wrestles with...
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Trevor Boddy critiques a proposed new urbanist development in South Delta as "a last-gasp attempt to reform suburbanism from within,before high energy prices and new respect for land compels much denserdevelopment." "The 13th of May brought several downer developments — and...
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Architect and professor Inge Roecker is leading a group of architecture students from UBC's School of Architecture in designing and building a Centre for Women's Health and Wellness in Vancouver's Downtown...
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An interview with Paris architect David Serero, who explains what all the fuss was about:After the big tide of information and missinformation about thecontrovertial design for the Eiffel´s tower new top, we decided to lookfor the real stuff, so in collaboration with my...
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Trevor Boddy gives an update on the status of Vancouver's Granville Island (can you say macramé?), and Vancouver's current timid architectural ethos.Think of Granville Island as downtown Vancouver in...
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Renowned French designer Philippe Starck says he is fed up with his job and plans to retire in two years, in an interview published in a German weekly on Thursday. "I was a producer of materiality and I am ashamed of this fact," Starck told Die Zeit weekly...
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Trevor Boddy gives an update on Vancouver's EcoDensity plan: "VANCOUVER — After nearly two years of work, the city's EcoDensity plan comes closer to reality with city council's public hearings on the initiative...
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lots of props for NY-based Asymptote architecture in this article from Lisa Rochon: "
There was a point when the drawings and renderings by Asymptote, a New York firm led by two Canadians, Hani Rashid and Lise Anne Couture, were enough.
When building their designs...
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Trevor Boddy looks at a condo development in Vancouver that takes a different approach to density: "In the worlds of real estate and architecture, it is nearly always mistaken to extrapolate the future from...
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"“China spends 9 percent of its gross domestic product (GDP) on infrastructure and India budgets 3.5 percent … while aiming to increase its allocation to 8 percent. By comparison, the United States budgets $112.9 billion or just 0.93 percent of its GDP, and sidesteps the...
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Trevor Boddy looks at the unfolding EcoDensity debate in Vancouver:"It is too bad the EcoDensity debate got dragged into an election year. Over the last few months, this discussion has entered an unwelcome and...
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the NYtimes reports on this year's PS1 summer Young Architects Program winners Work Architecture, who propose creating an urban farm:One can only imagine how the judges reacted when the architects walked
in lugging the kind of hulking concrete-pouring cardboard tubes used...
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