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Charting the Future of Downtown Baltimore

Community Architect Daily

In the chirpy manner that is customary for DPoB she presented a few facts and figures from the various reports her organization has amassed, including the Analysis of Market-Rate Housing Demand in Downtown Baltimore Neighborhoods and Adjacent Areas and a ULI report from 2021 , the 2018-28 investment forecast including that from 2018 to 2028 6.5

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Baltimore could have had this

Community Architect Daily

First in 2018 it became the winner the of a national competition that included 238 US cities and was called the "Hunger Games" by Wired Magazine and then in 2022 some of the defense glory came back wit Boeing declaring that it moved its headquarters here from Chicago. Even Amazon's offices are said to be dog friendly).

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What should David Bramble do with HarborPlace?

Community Architect Daily

The complex opened in 2018. Already envisioned in Wallace Roberts Todd's original Harbor Masterplan of 1967, some highrises, such as the USF&G tower or the World Trade Center, would pierce as solitaires the height limits of the frame. It can glow in the dark through an innovative, programmable LED lighting scheme.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

The firm’s designs for the Hamedan Chamber of Commerce , slated to be built in 2027, took home both a Popular and a Jury A+Award in 2018 in the unbuilt institutional category. Readers of Architizer have recently celebrated Carillo’s work as well, selecting her 2016 project Iturbide Studio as a Popular Winner in the 2018 A+Awards.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

A 2018 essay by Cal Poly Professor and urban planner Vincente del Rio states that Baltimore's Inner Harbor plan was a pioneer in its vision, components, and implementation process, having received more architecture and urban planning prizes than any other similar project in the United States. (Initially nobody thought tourists would come).

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Baltimore: From sideways to upwards?

Community Architect Daily

Duds instead of "game changers" The currently most widely known mega project is perhaps Port Covington ("Baltimore's Port Covington to be the Silicon Valley of athletics wear", Archpaper , 2018), which at one point even competed to attract Amazon's headquarters. Klaus Philipsen Related articles on my blogs: What Makes a City Smart?

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From Web to Print

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zoom being described as "a writer working on turning her blog into a book." His blog was five years old when the book came out, meaning BLDGBLOG is going on eighteen years.