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A couple thoughts to start the week
Sandy threw off the planned posts I was going to write over the past month, so thought I would compile a couple shorter thoughts for sharing today… Designing for the Deaf Some of you may recall that a while ago Gallaudet (a Washington, DC based school for the deaf) came up with some design guidelines for the deaf. There was…
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My Climate Resilient Hood
This is not about buildings on stilts, or inflatable plugs for subways, or barriers to keep the Atlantic at bay. Nor is it a plea for replacing your second car with a boat. It’s just about my humble little neighborhood, Jackson Heights, Queens, which fared quite well during Sandy. We didn’t lose power, thanks to…
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Reimagining Vacant Space: Justin Moore receives ioby’s 2012 award
ioby’s 2012 Heroes in Our Backyards: Reimagining Vacant Space from ioby on Vimeo. Justin Moore was awarded ioby’s 2012 the Heroes In Our Backyards award. He was chosen for his work on behalf of a neighborhood gardening project Urban Patch in his home town, the Mapleton-Fall Creek neighborhood of Indianapolis. Every year, ioby awards project leaders that exemplify the ioby spirit of community activism. In…
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Rethinking Real Estate Investment
I was fully intending to write something appropriate for the post-Thanksgiving consumption frenzy, it being Cyber Monday after all. Perhaps a piece on how mall design came out of traditional downtowns, which are now seeing a resurgence, but are looking more and more like malls… But I just cannot for the life of me…
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Edward Burtynsky and his photographs
Edward Burtynsky, the renowned Canadian photographer has been taking pictures of man-made landscapes for more than 30 years. His photographs are massive prints of 40×50 inches, capturing the large-scale of human foot print left by industrial activity of past hundred years. Burtynsky is an artist whose work displays majestic beauty with technical sophistication. He is often described as an environmental photographer but his office in…
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Frei Otto – Occupying and Connecting
Frei Otto is probably most famous for the Munich Olympic Stadium tenting that he designed/engineered for the 1972 Olympics. Which is highlighted in the below video: He also wrote a handful of books, including a tiny book entitled “Occupying and Connecting: Thoughts on Territories and Spheres of Influence with Particular Reference to Human Settlement.”…
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Historical Hurricane Data
I have been looking around the internet at how hurricane data over time is shared and visualized and wanted to share some of what I came across… The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is typically the go to place for Americans and many others for any hurricane data. They happen to have an…
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A 2011 report for the city predicted the damage a storm-surge would cause.
Just six weeks before Hurricane Sandy struck, The New York Times highlighted New York City’s vulnerabilities in a future of rising sea-levels due to climate change. In 2009, Mayor Bloomberg appointed Dr. Klaus Jacob, a Columbia University Professor of Engineering to a panel on Climate Change. He recently appeared on the Morning Show Up with Chris Hayes, where he was asked about…
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