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Paved With Good Intentions: We Still Can’t Kick the Car Habit
Despite its environmental achievements, the recently passed Inflation Reduction Act substitutes electric vehicles for a more holistic, climate-friendly approach to urban planning and design.
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Profiles
Gregor Sailer’s Photographs Explore Architecture’s Political, Military, and Economic Implications
In a new show at Kunst Haus Wien in Vienna, the Austrian artist continues his investigation of architecture where few civilians tread.
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SCHOOLED: What is Infrastructure?
In the wake of the new Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the term keeps expanding to describe an evolving network of systems everyone needs.
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A New Orleans Planner Builds Community as an Anti-Highway Activist
A proposal to remove a hated highway is caught in a maelstrom of politicking. But Amy Stelly is standing her ground.
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You Can’t Lift Up America’s Schools Without Lifting Up the Neighborhoods Where They Operate
Ron Bogle, CEO of the National Design Alliance, promotes revitalizing learning centers and their settings together.
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Projects
Moynihan Train Hall Is a New Year’s Gift to New York City
An adaptive reuse project 27 years in the making, the SOM-designed Train Hall is a striking contrast to Penn Station, setting the tone for future transit updates in New York.
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At Toronto’s Bentway, Lighting Is a Base Layer for Artistic Intervention
PUBLIC WORK and Tillett Lighting Design Associates conceived the strategy with hyper-flexibility in mind.
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A Walkway Down Under Becomes a Destination in Its Own Right
The Link, a vaulted, sheathed passage at Chadstone Shopping Centre near Melbourne, lets interiors and exteriors commingle.
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This Bridge in Providence Was Designed as Public Space
A part of Rhode Island's extensive Iway project, the infrastructure supports a pedestrian pathway, gardens, and occupiable spaces.
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In Cycle-Crazed Utrecht, the World’s Largest Bike Parking Facility Opens
The Netherlands, a country with more bikes than inhabitants, invested over €30 million in the multistory structure.
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NBBJ Reimagines a Piece of Seattle Infrastructure as a Sustainable Civic Landmark
The recently-completed Denny Substation includes an elevated path, dog park, open plazas, meeting rooms, and an art gallery.
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Hong Kong’s New High-Speed Rail Station Aims to Become a Vibrant Public Space
Designed by Andrew Bromberg at Aedas and perched next to Victoria Harbour, the station features a 700-tree green roof and a 147-foot-tall main hall.
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OPINION: By Simply Repairing Infrastructure, We’re Missing Huge Opportunities to Make Cities More Resilient and Responsive to Citizens’ Needs
Scott Burnham, author of Reprogramming the City, writes that in our era of limited budgets and resources, increasing the functionality of existing infrastructure is a necessary path forward.
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Architecture Firm Ooze Harnesses Natural Systems to Solve Freshwater Crises
"We have moved away from the systems nature has provided to us, it's time we move back," says Ooze cofounder Eva Pfannes.
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El Equipo Mazzanti Heals a Gash in Bogotá’s Urban Fabric With a Patchwork of Verdant Gardens
Once the center of controversy, El Equipo Mazzanti’s innovative Bicentenario Park restitches two divided districts in the Colombian city's historic core.
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Design Advocates: 5 People Making American Cities Better for All
American cities are in the midst of an urban renaissance, pursuing design, sustainability, and social good. Here are five people helping architects and designers to make our cities better.
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What If…Infrastructure Could Engender Public Trust?
Water Pore Partnership is not only bringing beautiful water infrastructure to cities, but using these systems as tools for public engagement and awareness.
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What if…The Electric Car Turned Gas Stations Into Civic Beacons?
With the continuing evolution of both electric and driverless car technologies, might we be in store for a new golden age of “roadside” architecture and infrastructural design?
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Too Big to Hide: Rethinking Infrastructure on Campuses
By banishing infrastructure facilities from sight, we avoid an important conversation about their potential—both functionally and aesthetically.
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IMAX Film Shoots World’s Most Awe-Inspiring Feats of Engineering
Dream Big, in theaters tomorrow, highlights the human ingenuity that brought us some of the world’s greatest structures, including the Great Wall of China and the world’s tallest skyscrapers.