February 2012
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Bancroft School / BNIM Architects & Make It Right A new  redevelopment project will transform a closed Kansas City schoolhouse into a new vibrant center for a community. The $14 million project will convert the 103-year-old brick school building into 29 affordable apartments with a 6,250-square-foot community center on the main floor. A new building with 21 apartments will also developed,...
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DESSAU INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: CAD Logic WS2011... →
This study investigates the use of minimal quantities of material and the proper distribution of workload between the team members to create the final installation. The final model consists of a repitition of the same component N number of times. The research was initiated with… via diadessau:
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“What if we could see and interact with the output of the code directly? Why...”
– Emanuels Journal: The Tools We Need vs. The Tools We Build.   (via lifeandcode)
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Redesigning the mall for public spaces, parks,... →
“Most cities, looking at shrinking budgets, cannot afford to subsidize or knock down ailing malls, and healthy retailers that are expanding — like H&M and Nordstrom Rack — generally will not open at depressed locations. So, as though they were upholstering polyester chairs from the 1960s with Martha Stewart fabric, urban planners and community activists are trying to spruce up and rethink...
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DESSAU INSTITUTE OF ARCHITECTURE: CITC... →
Wednesday, 25 January 2011 WS2011 Finals CITC II…adaptive growth processes - Liss C. Werner This semester Codes in the Clouds II explored Adaptive Growth Processes through material behavior as rule-based organisational systems. Starting from classic Science Fiction… via diadessau:
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This Big City + 城事: What are the best urbanism... →
We love lists at This Big City, and we’re about to start work on our newest one featuring our ten favourite urbanism blogs on Tumblr. Should your blog should be on our list? Reblog this post and we’ll check out your Tumblog and potentially share it with our 30,000 Tumblr followers and… via thisbigcity:
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CAD Logic WS2011 - Liss Werner
The WS2011 CAD Logic creations: Inflatable Wall Sensitive Leaves Tunicates via diadessau:
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The City of Mobile Services Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley This studio looks to invert the question of urban mobility, asking not how individuals can most efficiently navigate the static map of the built metropolis, but how the city’s various systems and services, from policing to entertainment, can instead come to them. Through a series of case studies, site visits, and design challenges,...
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Building a Bionic City: Sci Fact or Sci Fiction?...
  Melissa Sterry’s Blog
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