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architect, author, blogger, & curious. instagram.com/the.originalgr
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Stunning steel doors we just installed on a project. They’re incredibly heavy—they feel like castle doors but open so, so smoothly. Love getting to work with talented and passionate craftsmen and local businesses (Monte Cristo). #bcjordanproject
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Saying "New residents cause traffic" is like saying "Cooking causes the fire alarm to go off."
Neither is inherent or inevitable - both are results of design defects.
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Street trees, parked cars, and 10’ travel lanes make a comfortable place to walk. Sidewalk cafes and 100% clear glass storefronts make a fun place to walk. #Winnipeg #walkability
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A few of our masonry envelopes. Note that these are already architecture. The goal is to create a vernacular fabric that lives many lives. At any point these bldgs can be reduced back to this distillate state with no loss of identity or cultural significance to their region.
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Wow, I never knew the significance of these two May 4 dates so many years apart… thanks for posting this!
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May 4 is the anniversary of two important events, both on the East Coast of the US, eighty years apart, that have helped shape modern planning and urbanism for the better around the world. @JeffSpeckFAICP @stevemouzon @VictorDover @mallorybaches
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The sign says 35, but the design says floor it.
Civil engineers should learn about psychology & human factors before they get near AutoCAD.
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There's Gizmo Green... and now, there's Gizmo "Life"
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Science communicator and video producer Hashem Al-Ghaili released this video envisioning EctoLife, the world’s first concept of artificial womb facility
[full video: buff.ly/3Bv5nzX]
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We have roads that look like this all over North America, yet we keep building new ones.
Make it make sense.
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This is my gym. This is my psychiatrist. This is my teacher. This is a 10 minute walk from my Manhattan apartment.
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, who you may know, has an excellent one for I'On:
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I didn't mention this today because the idea is less than a week old, but it's part of the "compact" we talked about with new communities looking to take another way. I'll add to this thread as it gets fleshed out if you're interested.
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“The cheapest teacher for those who in self-defense have become city blind is shoe leather. It is no accident that powerfully motivated planners (like Haussmann) have been great walkers.” — Frederick Gutheim, 1963
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The title sounds like clickbait, but the article is both thoughtful and provocative. The Prince's Foundation is a wealth of education & resources; Poundbury makes it real at full scale, and INTBAU links it all together. Thanks for the link !
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Think how weird it is for a king to be passionate about so much that is not about power. We first met when he invited the Seaside Pienza group to Highgrove for lunch not because of who we were but because he cared so much about things we were working on.
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I've said for years that industrial scale has many serious consequences, but this is one I never imagined: dust from industrial agriculture causing widespread destruction & even death on industrial-scale transport infrastructure.
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Massive pileup on I-55 south of Springfield, Illinois has closed the interstate for nearly 30 miles. Blowing dust off freshly plowed fields led to very low visibility
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A more authentic architecture can affordably happen if design can embrace the humility of sheer simplicity. Let what’s ‘real’ be the ornament; let the matter of factness of what we do attest to it’s artistic value. Un-design it.
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You don’t need throngs of happy people in renderings of good urbanism, because people look at it and say “I’d probably be happy there.”
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Rendering Rule 1: the more happy people walking around in the rendering, the more likely it is that the renderer is trying to distract you from how bad the design is.
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It is amazing how these renderings always have tons of people milling about. As if they were content medieval burghers exchanging pleasantries after church on a sunny Sunday morning and not concrete hell-scapes for harried commuters and the PowerPoint Caste. twitter.com/brent_bellamy/…
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Great 🧵on outdoor rooms 👇
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What makes a room a room? Enclosure, baby.
This is why New Orleans rules. It is the peak vibe in the entire US. Why? Courtyards, mainly.
A courtyard is a room outside.
How do you make walls, you ask (assuming you're not going to actual build walls)?
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What makes a room a room? Enclosure, baby.
This is why New Orleans rules. It is the peak vibe in the entire US. Why? Courtyards, mainly.
A courtyard is a room outside.
How do you make walls, you ask (assuming you're not going to actual build walls)?
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My column tomorrow: It doesn’t matter how many floating doughnut gardens or elevators to the sky we build, Portage and Main will never successfully attract people if it is simultaneously designed to repel them.
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There was such a strong building culture that buildings could be built with what we’d consider a light Design Development set of drawings today.
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Reading about urban history continually surprises with the SPEED with which we used to change places.According to Wikipedia, Herbert Gribble won the design competition in March 1869 & they started building in June the same year. Inconceivable today.
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The most influential architect of the 20th century had the plan to bulldoze Paris 🇫🇷 and replace it with this disaster 👇👇
Reject car 🚗 dependency.
We deserve better better.
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“Forget the damned motor car and build cities for lovers and friends.”
- Lewis Mumford
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Because this Declaration is a listing of principles of neighborliness and community, it cannot be regulatory. But it is essential to the crafting of future regulations & amendments. And it has long been rare or completely missing, in my experience.
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HOAs get this wrong: all of the CCRs (covenants, codes & restrictions) read like ordinances or legislature. What’s missing is the constitution, or even the Declaration of Independence from Sprawl that begins with something like “we hold these truths to be self-evident…”
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Bob Turner: The “disaster board” is an HOA board filled with people with just one issue, like “I want a pavilion in the park in front of my house.” #NTBAspring23
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Dan Slone: Plain-English documents result in far-fewer lawsuits than complex documents. #NTBAspring23
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In early stages the teams made various degrees of progress. Some were deliberate on process. At the end of design, some had almost no plans at all while others had robust plans. But within 2:00 of the reveal of the Liberty 3D models, every team had a competent plan. Got receipts.
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One of the most critical aspects to bldg mass wall at a production rate is the window and door bucks, which in our case are permanent, and double as actual frames. Once in place, these define our rough openings and become fastening substrates for stock size fenestration units.
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Stop for a minute and ponder what joke or point this cover is trying to make.
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Remember, Paris wasn’t “always this way.”
It wasn’t even this way in late 2019 when I was there last.
Just a few years ago, all of #Paris was choking in car traffic.
This is new. This is leadership.
Cities are a result of choices.
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“Currently about 2/3rds of all Dutch children walk or bike to school, with 75% of secondary school kids cycling to school. By enabling safe and active travel, Dutch cities prevent an estimated one million car journeys to school each morning.” — in #CurbingTraffic
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The Sheriff's department has determined the surge in recent crashes involving fast cars mauling pedestrians.
Police have taken a book into custody. A green book that officials say is to blame for dangerous road design.
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If a road looks like this, no amount of signs or speed limits will curb speeding and accidents.
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