September 2011
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Rabbit Island: Rabbit Island Architecture... →
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Rabbit Island Architecture Competition: A Rock and Wood Design Studio
Introduction: Rabbit Island is a remote 91 acre forested island in Lake Superior three miles east of Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula. The island has never before been developed and is composed of a forested northern…
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Talen and Koschinsky Win HUD Sustainable...
09/09/2011”Emily Talen, Professor at the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and Director of the Phoenix Urban Research Laboratory, and Julia Koschinsky, Assistant Research Professor and Research Director of the GeoDa Center for Geospatial Analysis and Computation, are one of six grantees of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Planning (HUD)’s 2010 Transformation...
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Les communes d'arrondissement (Dakar)
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Current Technologies That Will Shape Our Future
CAD, 3D Printing & Custom Products
Computer-aided design (CAD) products are popular among engineers, designers and students for creating 3D product designs. But the software is often too advanced for the average consumer to design his or her own products. In the future, however, CAD will allow the average consumer to design his own custom products that are both manufacturable and affordable....
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Finding somewhere to put those bikes…
treadlyandme:
I’ve never understood this concern that bringing a bike inside will cause “scuffed floors and chipped paint”. Sure, a bike can be a bit wet and grubby at times, but an office chair will scuff a floor worse than a bike and an umbrella or a bag of shopping is more likely to scratch paintwork.
That said, it’s an interesting sign of the times that “Plenty of longtime New Yorkers [are]...
