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Baltimore’s New Ulysses Hotel Channels the Kaleidoscopic Ouevre of Filmmaker John Waters

Dwell

"All of our projects begin with me exploring a city or neighborhood that has somehow caught my attention," says Ari Heckman, CEO of Ash. "It Ulysses, the name of the new 116-room hotel in Baltimore’s Mount Vernon neighborhood, takes inspiration from a ship that brought Bavarian immigrants to the city at the turn of the century.

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The squeeze is on: The Revolution Hotel

BD+C

The Mount Vernon Company threw down the gauntlet to its project team, headed by architect Prellwitz Chilinski Associates and Kaplan Construction: Take this unimaginative Mid-Century Modern YWCA, whose rooms average 125 sf and whose plumbing consists of a small bathroom core in each of its two wings, and turn it into the hippest new boutique hotel in (..)

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Superblock: Still far from Take-Off

Community Architect Daily

A full 10 years after the development of the " Superblock " in the old retail heart of downtown had crashed spectacularly and the Mayor had pulled the plug on a developer who hadn't produced a viable project in eight years, a new take-off is still far away. The project is now underway and started site work in April. Compass rendering.

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A Miracle on Lexington Street?

Community Architect Daily

Superblock corner Howard and Fayette Street (Photo: Philipsen) Originally eminent domain power had been only used for public projects such as railroads and highways, but eventually it had become common practice that government would take the land and sell it right away to a private developer. land disposition").

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Claude Cormier: Hell of Fun

Landscape Architecture Magazine

When the refurbished park opened last summer, Cormier told the Montreal Gazette, “All my best projects have been rejected at the beginning.” A Menagerie of Joyful Projects Cormier’s portfolio is like a menagerie. Though the company later abandoned the project and the design was never realized, the exuberance is unmistakable.

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Old Town Baltimore - an unkind mirror of Baltimore's planning history

Community Architect Daily

(Baltimore SUN, Sept 27, 2012) In spite of all this history, Old Town Baltimore has clearly not done as well as other historic neighborhoods such as Fells Point, Federal Hill, or Mount Vernon, to name just a few. See my 2018 blog article explaining the overall project ).

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Is Downtown Baltimore doomed?

Community Architect Daily

Mount Vernon's Washington Square (Photo: Philipsen) The pandemic has highlighted a concern that sociologists have had for a long time about the condition of the shared space in America's cities. The "third places" in Stuttgart are "shared" by and attractive to everyone in the city, the region or the nation.

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