May 2011
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Cycling Copenhagen, Through North American Eyes
While Streetfilms was in Copenhagen for the Velo-City 2010 conference, of course we wanted to showcase its biking greatness. But we were also looking to take a different perspective then all the myriad other videos out there. Since there were an abundance of advocates, planners, and city transportation officials attending from the U.S. and...
WatchDeutsche Bank / Media Wall / In-Situ Universal Everything were commissioned by Deutsche Bank Hong Kong to develop a multimedia wall for ever-changing video art and realtime data display. Working alongside EightFive2 on the architectural specification, creative development and hardware implementation, the project took place over a period of 10 months universaleverything.com
Watch72 Housing units Bègles, France An urban lifestyle set in a highly experimental ecological and contemporary architectures. For this first Focus On, Umberto Napolitano and Venezia Ferret present a housing project in Bègles. The project principle underlying the approach was that of stacking containers, and careful study of new habitat modes. The idea of variable compactness introduced the notion of...
Watch“27” is a joint venture between a filmmaker, two architects and a designer. They travel together to meet people engaging in the process of making the Europe of tomorrow. “27” is a journey into the heart of contemporary European architecture, under a permanent state of mutation. 27countries, 27 cultures, 27 architects build according to their own rules, and their own history while giving...
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San Francisco: Removal of the Embarcadero Freeway
In 1989, a 7.1 earthquake struck the Bay Area which severely damaged many of its elevated highway structures. The Embarcadero Freeway - an ugly, double-decked highway - was replaced with a grand boulevard which emphasizes access to the waterfront and provides people with transportation options like walking, mass transit, and bicycling instead...
WatchIn the lead-up to the Festival of Ideas for the New City, C-Lab presents brief videos on matters of concern relating to transportation in New York City. “Building Blocks,” follows the formal and organizational evolution of our streetscapes and proposes new ways to further enable the potential of our most vibrant surfaces.
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WatchPolicy Briefs 2 by C-Lab
c-lab.columbia.edu C-Lab, the Columbia Laboratory for Architectural Broadcasting, is an experimental research unit devoted to the development of new forms of communication in architecture, set up as a semi-autonomous think and action tank at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University.
Watch“Ear Drumming on the Express Line: Subway Noise,” looks at the public health issue of noise in the subways. Street, sidewalk, residential and commercial noise are consistently ranked as the top complaints New York City residents log into the city’s 311 service hotline. Subway noise, however, remains conspicuously absent, even though its long-term effects stretch far beyond the realm of momentary...
WatchHamburg’s ambitious HafenCity: Each site is required to hold independent architectural competitions favouring creativity over economic concerns.
WatchBarcelona’s Diagonal ZeroZero building in time-lapse.
