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massurban: Architizer: “Written On The Wind: A Mesmerizing Light Installation That Responds To Nature Tashween Ali.  In 2012, Helsinki served as the World Design Capital (WDC)… Lighting Design Collective‘s Silo 468, a mesmerizing light installation that transformed an old oil silo into an engaging civic public space—and which won an Architizer A+ popular choice award in the Architecture + Light category… “It’s a mix of completely natural—with wild sea on one side, forest on the other—with old industrial structures,” says LDC Director Tapio Rosenius of the structure’s surroundings. “These things led us to approach the Silo as device that reflects and responds to its immediate environment.”
The big new Transbay Terminal set to open in 2017 may be shedding its all-glass skin. The idea is to wrap it in (supposedly) lacy aluminum instead, with a see-through pattern of cuts in the shiny metal. The change is partly for security reasons — no glass means no glass shards if something goes wrong — and partly to save an estimated $17 million… sfgate, 16.03.13, 15.03.13.
» Elaborate ped/bike tube proposed for Coronado Bay Bridge
San Diego County officials are examining an elaborate addition to the Coronado Bay Bridge — a two-mile bike and pedestrian path suspended underneath the bridge.  

“I think it would be something that people would come to want to ride, like going to the St. Louis Arch or the Seattle Space Needle,” said local architect Lew Dominy.

Dominy said the gigantic steel tube would cost roughly $50 million and be a part of the county’s Bayshore Bikeway. The bikeway is already 60 percent finished, and when completed, it would be a continuous pathway around the southern part of San Diego Bay. The bridge tube would be a huge addition…

The architect is confident it can be done, and he hopes San Diegans will one day be able to pedal underneath their iconic bridge.

“Because you’re 200 feet up in the air and it is spectacular,” said Dominy.

Dominy estimated the tube would take two years to build if it is ever approved.

10news, 15.02.13.

» A Guide to Creating Great Cities at Eye Level
The result of a collaborative effort between five editors and 43 professionals from around the world, a new open-source book documents the essential concepts and strategies for creating great cities at eye level - along the ground floor (“plinths”).

Ground floors, or “plinths,” are the most crucial parts of buildings for creating great cities. They define the way a city’s public and private spaces interact, and are essential to creating commodious pedestrian environments. “The ground floor may be only 10% of a building, [but] it determines 90% of the building’s contribution to the experience of the environment,” say editors Hans Karssenberg & Jeroen Laven.  

The City at Eye Level.
download the whole book as a pdf. (215 pgs)[free]

planetizen, 13.01.13.

» Never Built: Los Angeles

imageMany of the Pacific Electric rail lines would have been converted into subways or elevated lines. Courtesy of the Metro Transportation Library and Archive.

A spiraling, 1,290-foot tower built of magnesium. A rapid-transit system with hundreds of miles of subways and elevated tracks. A comprehensive network of parks, beaches, and open spaces linked by greenbelts and parkways. These are just a few unrealized visions for Los Angeles featured in an upcoming exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum, “Never Built: Los Angeles.”

…Scheduled for a July 11 opening, “Never Built: Los Angeles” is currently seeking community funding through a Kickstarter campaign and was as of this writing close to its goal.

If there’s a lesson to the exhibition, it’s that shortsightedness in the past has created a city that doesn’t always live up to its potential.

The L.A. That Might Have Been. kcet, 31.01.13.

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