Via Urban Re:Vision: Urban Re:Vision and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation announced that “Forwarding Dallas” has been selected as the winning design from Re:Vision Dallas, an international design competition. The challenge, to transform a vacant inner-city block behind City Hall into a carbon-neutral community, drew hundreds of entries from top architecture firms and city planners in 14 countries worldwide. “Forwarding Dallas” is the product of a collaboration between Portuguese-based architectural firms Atelier Data and Moov, and will run “off the grid,” acting as a working model of sustainability for cities around the globe. Ground breaking is scheduled for early 2011.
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Toronto Stories is a new movie comprising of four short stories that a nameless boy witnesses in the course of a single day on the city streets of Toronto - and how, in the end, each of those stories comes to be connected. Described to be in a similar vein to Paris, je t’aime, it is about different types of love and friendships. There’s a story about childhood friends, a story of awkward romance, a story of an escaped ex-con, and a story of a homeless man’s struggle. You certainly don’t actually need to know Toronto to understand the film, but for me it was kind of fun to see the familiar, and try to guess where places were. Continue reading ‘toronto stories’
Once in a while you come across something that makes you go ‘yes, that’s unreal, it can be done!’. The roof of Terminal 4 at Madrid’s Barajas Airport, Spain is one such encounter to cause this reaction. Made entirely of bamboo plywood, the roof spans no less than 200 000 square meters with not one fluorescent tube light, ugly ceiling tiles or metal sheet roofing to be seen. This multiple design award-winning airport, is designed by Rogers Stirk Harbour & Partners and has been their largest project undertaken so far. It seems sustainability and well being are cultivated design notions in Madrid with the Atocha train station also pushing conventional and traditional standards. Home to a Jungle spreading 4000 square meters and home to 500 species of plants and animals, architect Rafael Moneo’s idea was to make waiting for the train more comfortable. Simple.
