White Nights, Green Lights
White Nights festivals are all-night parties that take place between the end of summer and beginning of autumn. Traditionally, White Nights take place in cities near the Arctic Circle during the...
View ArticleDo play in the street
Didn’t your mother tell you not to play in the street? Well, from October 29th to November 1st, three locations in the UK; Gateshead, Sunderland and Middlesbrough will be breaking the rules and taking...
View ArticleChromatic Levee
On September 8th, 2007, the City of Kent in Washington state celebrated the 25th Anniversary of Earthworks Park designed by Herbert Bayer. This celebration coincided with the one-day art installation,...
View ArticleBridging Waters: Creating a Peace Park on the River Jordan
Description from Yale University, “For one week in May 2008, leading architects, professors, and students from Yale University, organized by the Yale Urban Design Workshop in conjunction with Friends...
View ArticleWhen Santas take over the urban streets
Santas take to the streets for the annual SantaCon in towns across the US and overseas in this lovely month of December. Santas have been seen riding bikes, boarding trains, eating and drinking in...
View ArticlePechaKucha Global for Haiti
The non-profit organization of volunteers, Architecture for Humanity is teaming up with PechaKucha, an event for designers to show and discuss their work, to unite 277 cities around the world...
View ArticlePublic Presentations on a New Waterfront
This coming week we’ll find out which team won for the Design of the Seattle Central Waterfront. Last week the four shortlisted teams had their formal interviews as well as a presentation to the...
View ArticleNOW Urbanism
For those of you in the Seattle area, there are some great events coming up at the University of Washington as part of the multi-disciplinary, year long series – NOW Urbanism: City Making in the 21st...
View ArticleWatching a world class waterfront emerge
It is an interesting time as Seattle embarks on the adventure of redesigning its waterfront. And how exciting it is for me to have a front seat! The big question being asked by Waterfront Seattle is,...
View ArticleSee No Evil: Graffiti Artists Transform Nelson Street In Bristol
At the end of August, some of the best graffiti artists in the world descended on Nelson Street in Bristol as part of an ambitious urban street art project called See No Evil. Over the course of three...
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