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If you ask Whole Foods why it’s breaking ground on a store in Midtown Detroit this month, it’ll say it wants to be part of “an incredible community” and “make natural foods available to everyone.” And that may be. But it’s also true that the Austin, Texas-based retailer has made a science of putting down roots in urban locations at what often seems to be just the right moment. In Washington, D.C., near Logan Circle in 2000, Uptown New Orleans and the East Liberty section of Pittsburgh in 2002, Boston’s “Latin Quarter” in Jamaica Plain in 2011 — areas that other specialty grocers might have considered unworthy of goat cheese and ostrich eggs, but that were actually on the verge of a boom that, lo and behold, kicked into high gear as soon as Whole Foods moved in. “Whole Foods will move into neighborhoods that, at first glance you think, why are they moving there?” says Bill Reid, a principal at the Portland, Ore., land-use consultancy Johnson Reid.
Whole Foods is coming? Time to buy - Dream City
Metropol Parasol, Sevilla
The measures of the elements are: length max. = 16,5 m, thicknesses betw. 68 and 311 mm, largest (trunk) element 16,5 x 3,5 x 0,14 m. The construction consists of 3000 connection nodes that are highly load-bearing. Architect's word
Tel Aviv Museum of Art - BOOOOOOOM! - CREATE * INSPIRE * COMMUNITY * ART * DESIGN * MUSIC * FILM * PHOTO * PROJECTS
On our last day in Israel we had a tour of the newly opened Herta and Paul Amir Building at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art . It was designed by architecture firm Preston Scott Cohen , and it is astonishing. All of the images above are © Amit Geron .
Wheeeeeee! Slides Made for Adults, in Dire Need of Fun [Video] | Co.Design: business + innovation + design
Summer ends today, which means we must all go back to our humdrum all-work autumnal lives. But not until we cover one final bastion of warm-weather play: Slides! Slide@T3 claims to be the tallest in Singapore This week, the Slide@T3 opened in Singapore's Changi Airport, a pair of slides that twirl through its Terminal 3.
Frank Gehry is perhaps the most celebrated practicing architect in the world today. He has been the recipient of dozens of awards recognizing excellence in architecture, including, in 1989, the most prestigious one in his field, the Pritzker Architecture Prize, which honors "significant contributions to humanity and the built environment through the art of architecture." Over the past five decades, under Gehry's creative direction, Gehry Partners, LLP has designed public and private buildings in North America, Europe, and Asia.Hallmarks of Gehry's work include a particular focus on creating spaces that are comfortable to the people who use them, and that exist well within the larger context and culture of their location. The firm's approach to design is one in which the client becomes fully engaged in the process, making each project a true collaboration.
New York by Gehry at 8 Spruce Street
Frank Gehry: Dizzy heights | Art and design | The Guardian
' I'm getting tearful," says Frank Gehry when I ask him how he feels about finally making his mark on the Manhattan skyline. "My father grew up in Hell's Kitchen , 10th Avenue, on the city's West Side." Irving Goldberg was one of nine children in a very poor immigrant family; his son changed his name in the early 1950s. "He started work at 11," says Gehry.
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At the Triennale, designers team up with marble companies, proposing a series of installations pushing the boundaries of this durable, stable material.Three days and three nights to design public space: 72HUA directors Halbrecht and Karjevsky discuss the first real-time architectural competition An architecture report from Tel Aviv by Joshua Simon The famed partner of Diller Scofidio + Renfro discusses her rebellious impulses and the development of an intensively interdisciplinary contemporary practice An interview from Beijing by Brendan McGetrick
Looking, Moving, Gathering: Functions of the High Line - Architecture - Domus
close up of the UTS building with 'tower skin' 'tower skin' is a transparent cocoon that acts as a high performance 'micro climate'. it generates energy with photo voltaic cells, collects rain water, improves day lighting and uses available convective energy to power the towers' ventilation requirements.
