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architizer:

Late to class? Take the slide! Students at Technical University of Munich enjoy a four-story slides on a daily basis. If only New York had a similar system for commuters.

nickoftimela: condenasttraveler: The New Wonders of the World | Frank Gehry’s Hotel Marqués De Riscal, in La Rioja, Spain Putting this on my list.  To reference the Simpsons: Frank Gehry sees a scrunched up piece of paper in the bin and and says something like “I can build this!” his apprentice or observer in the room shouts “Frank Gehry… Your a genius!”. Is he a famous architect for making great architecture or being able to enable buildings like this (that looks like paper that has fallen out of a paper shredder) to be built?

nickoftimela:

condenasttraveler:

The New Wonders of the World | Frank Gehry’s Hotel Marqués De Riscal, in La Rioja, Spain

Putting this on my list. 

To reference the Simpsons: Frank Gehry sees a scrunched up piece of paper in the bin and and says something like “I can build this!” his apprentice or observer in the room shouts “Frank Gehry… Your a genius!”. Is he a famous architect for making great architecture or being able to enable buildings like this (that looks like paper that has fallen out of a paper shredder) to be built?

urbalize: The 3rd section of NYC’s High Line park have recently been shared by the design team of jcfo  and dsr. The new section of the High Line will be open in spring of 2014, and will be the final stage of the project.

urbalize:

The 3rd section of NYC’s High Line park have recently been shared by the design team of jcfo  and dsr. The new section of the High Line will be open in spring of 2014, and will be the final stage of the project.

(via thegreenurbanist)

urbanigation:

I know it was a mess and costly and blah and blah but I love the Big Dig in Boston. I think its so cool to bury a whole highway and give a city a wonderful space instead. 

(Source: urbanination, via nickoftimela)

atlurbanist: “People had a sense that when it came to land use of the city, we could spread out, we could avoid some of the problems of the East Coast industrial cities…But in the end, it’s a shame. We went too far in the other direction, too much toward cars, too much toward sprawl. We’re still repairing that today.” from The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don’t Live Where We Work

atlurbanist:

“People had a sense that when it came to land use of the city, we could spread out, we could avoid some of the problems of the East Coast industrial cities…But in the end, it’s a shame. We went too far in the other direction, too much toward cars, too much toward sprawl. We’re still repairing that today.”

from The Roots of Sprawl: Why We Don’t Live Where We Work

(via humanscalecities)