BD+C
AUGUST 14, 2023
As a result, the security guard, no longer needed for the most part to secure the building from unauthorized visitors nor positioned behind a massive stone reception desk, is now free to meet and interact with lobby users more like an ambassador or even a concierge in a comfortable, inviting lobby zone. 200 West Madison Street, Chicago, Ill.
Community Architect Daily
DECEMBER 6, 2023
The bills are intended to create the zoning necessary to permit the proposed size of the project which cannot be built with the existing Urban Renewal Plan and current zoning in place. At this point it may be useful to recall that zoning was invented to protect the public. This gives everyone a chance to mull this over.
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BD+C
MARCH 13, 2024
financing more socially inclusive projects is often the stickiest issue—particularly if you want to take something that is classified as office and convert it. Yet in Europe, financing mixed-use buildings is bread and butter; we don’t even question how to invest in those structures. I would add zoning to the conversation.
e-architect
JANUARY 16, 2022
Jeremy Farrington, who heads up BDP’s Singapore studio, also takes on the new role to increase BDP’s market share in South East Asia with a focus on urban design, transportation and mixed-use places. The Whitechapel Elizabeth line station has opened after being handed over to Transport for London. 15 Dec 2021. image © BDP. 18 Nov 2021.
Architizer
MARCH 3, 2022
This elegant complex includes rehearsal spaces and public zones in addition to a central performance area, celebrating the sense in which theatre is a community. In 2018, Ingrid van der Heijden’s firm CIVIC Architects was shortlisted for an A+Award in the Transportation-Infrastructure category. Ingrid van der Heijden.
Architizer
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
I was always intrigued by Christopher Alexander’s pattern language #160 “Building Edge” in which he implores us to “treat the edge of the building as a ‘thing,’, a ‘place,’ a zone with volume to it, not a line or interface with no thickness.”
A Daily Dose of Architecture Books
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
It's an excellent book, as is the second installment in Leslie's series of books on skyscrapers in Chicago, but the subtitle of the second book, How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City , indicates the incorporation of those wider contexts eschewed in the first book. and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons).
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