Feb 24
Chicago has long been a global leader in an interesting export category: Maker of the world’s tallest buildings. The world’s current tallest building was designed here, as well as the one that will supplant it
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Feb 24
Instead of dreading the thought of sloshing through eight feet of frozen sludge on your way home tonight, let’s think ahead to summer, when we’ll actually want to feel ice cold water against our faces—in some of our cities’ best fountains.
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Feb 21
Detroit outlines a plan to get itself out of debt, salt shortages are making a snowstorm near you even worse, and another week of violence is igniting in Kiev. It’s this week’s look at What’s Ruining Our Cities.
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Feb 21
We’ve all looked up at some point in our lives (probably during a baseball game) and seen that familiar, friendly speck of a Goodyear Blimp floating overhead. But far fewer of us have actually had the opportunity to ride in one of these things—and that’s a damn shame. Because as photographer Dan Maker-Moore’s newest photos show, the view is spectacular.
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Feb 20
A competition to re-imagine suburban surface parking lots tapped architects to transform the often-w
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A competition to re-imagine suburban surface parking lots tapped architects to transform the often-wasted space into flexible urban plazas. This entry, dubbed "Civic Arches" by Utile, Inc. Architecture + Urban Planning, proposes using the the arches beneath a Long Island Railroad viaduct to park cars of commuters during the week, then reclaim the space as a farmers market on the weekends. [Architect’s Newspaper]
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Feb 20
A new startup is betting that you can’t find a suitable public restroom to relieve yourself—and that you’ll pay top dollar for a cushy seat when the urge strikes. Posh Stow and Go is billing itself as New York’s "first members-only day storage and bathroom facility," with memberships that allow you to pay-as-you-poo.
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Feb 20
Nine miles from London’s city center, Royal Albert Dock lies derelict, as grey and gloomy as the worst of English weather. But developer Xu Weiping has a $1.6 billion plan to turn it into Europe’s central hub for Chinese companies.
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Feb 19
In one of the most ambitious announcements of his term so far, Mayor Bill de Blasio pledged yesterday to eliminate traffic deaths in New York City. In 2013, there were 286 traffic-related fatalities.
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Feb 19
Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson is a master of light and color, creating trippy experiential works that mess with our perception. The artist’s latest piece, recently installed at the John and Mary Pappajohn Sculpture Park in Des Moines, Iowa, is like walking inside a human-scaled spectrograph.
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Feb 19
Redesigning New Orleans for flooding, new buildings in Williamsburg that don’t suck, and a skyscrape
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Redesigning New Orleans for flooding, new buildings in Williamsburg that don’t suck, and a skyscraper in L.A. that will soon be the tallest west of Chicago. Plus: Google’s urban expansion and dying department stores, all in this week’s Urban Reads.
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