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Monday, May 24th, 2010
Urbanlogic’s Community is the world’s first social network for everyone that is interested in urban design and the places they live in. Established to promote built environment good practice and forward thinking from around the world.
The Community is an active vehicle for forging new ways of thinking about the ‘art of the possible’ at a crucial time when the need for planet-saving, world-enhancing solutions has never been greater. The trusted idea place for future design leaders aimed to inspire and motivate students, practitioners and clients alike; who believe that people make a city great.
Broadly speaking Urbanlogic Community is intended as a ‘research and learning centre’ and a window on the efforts being made to redesign the way we live.
Urbanlogic community will include
New Features will include:
An open discussion forum
A Professional membership forum
My inner circle
Issues and solutions
Networking and collaboration
Videos
Publications
Discussions
Projects
Articles
If your interested in featuring your projects / concepts ready for the launch please email me
Kind Regards
Ian J Vincent
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Monday, December 14th, 2009
The vision of Urban Logic was to diffuse the latest inspiration in the Built Environment that is happening around the world and to build a global network of collaborators and communities with an interdisciplinary approach to the way we think about our cities.
Since the launch of Urban Logic In April 2009.
Urban Logic has been visited by over 15,000 people, from 130 countries/territories and over 40,000 pages have been viewed.
So I am really excited to announce that an Urban Logic Forum will be launched in Jan 2010 as a place where the world’s greatest thinkers and doers -‘YOU’ in other words, to exchange views on the most pressing issues in the built environment and forward thinking designs, and for students to learn from the best in the industry.
We would welcome your comments and practical experience on the latest issues, as well as suggestions for new forum topics, before the Launch in Jan 2010
Kind Regards
Ian J Vincent
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Friday, July 3rd, 2009
SOM has landed the commission to take forward the $80 billion (£49 billion) masterplan for King Abdullah Economic City in Saudi Arabia – one of the biggest projects in the Middle East
The firm saw off three other anonymous practices to land the contract with developer Emaar, The Economic City.
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Monday, May 11th, 2009
The concept design is driven by the desire to blur the boundaries between retail and cultural zones and indoor and outdoor spaces with flowing spatial transitions that encourage discovery and deliver an energetic civic node.
Aedas have designed this spectacular 54,000 sq.m. Singapore Civic & Culture Centre comprises of cultural, civic & retail uses and when complete will provide a premier entertainment, lifestyle and retail experience for one-north and the wider Singapore community. Its angular, multi-faceted design creates a variety of perspectives, changing the form dramatically depending on the viewpoint.
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
Spanish designer Jaime Hayón will create a giant chess set in Trafalgar Square, London, as part of this September’s London Design Festival. Update: Hayón has sent us many new drawings, renderings and research materials, which we’ve added below.
The installation, announced today at the festival’s press launch, is billed as “a design reinterpretation of the Battle of Trafalgar”.
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
The idea of building a new bridge across the Thames lined with shops and houses, just like Old London Bridge, the one “falling down, falling down” in nursery rhyme lore, is a well worn one. This is one of those hardy perennials in the world of eye-popping design projects, one that refuses to go the way Old London Bridge did soon after its successor opened in 1831. It has now been revived by the London mayor, Boris Johnson.
He first floated the idea on Nick Ferrari’s LBC show last week. The Sunday Times followed his lead, reporting that a new “living bridge” across the Thames was planned and quoting the Mayor’s claim “that [it] will once again provide a commercial zone…a bridge that actually has residential and commercial property on it, as the old London Bridge did”. It continued:
Old London Bridge ... inhabited bridges are alluring but impractical. Photograph: Stapleton Collection/Corbis
Early plans being drawn up by Anthony Brown (sic), Johnson’s policy director, are being modelled on designs by Antoine Grumbach, the French architect who won a competition to design a habitable bridge held by the Royal Academy in 1996.
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Sunday, May 10th, 2009
As a prime mover in founding the Design Museum, our architecture critic considers the merits of its move to a refurbished Commonwealth Institute
Here’s a fine thing. The Twentieth Century Society, founded to cultivate educated enthusiasm for modern architecture, has declared itself “dismayed” by the Design Museum, founded to cultivate educated enthusiasm for modern design. Two cats in a sack here.
Object of the dismay is the proposed reuse of the Commonwealth Institute, the historic centre of an ambitious new development in Kensington, west London, now up for planning approval with the local council. The Design Museum wants to make this redundant, mid-century classic, with signature parabolic roof and unmissable traces of late-imperial pomp, its new home.
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Tuesday, April 28th, 2009
An interesting new study (.pdf) confirms a long-held suspicion of politicians and, more importantly, anyone working in the field of climate change awareness: Americans are only worried about global warming abstractly.
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Thursday, March 26th, 2009
In response to this historic opportunity, the SCIFI (Southern California Institute for Future Initiatives) program at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) and The Architect’s Newspaper sponsored an open ideas competition for architects, engineers, urban planners and students to propose new ideas for LA County’s transit infrastructure.
The competition encouraged entrants to develop solutions that dramatically rethink the relationship between transit systems, public space and urban redevelopment. Competitors were further encouraged to work within the parameters of LA County Ballot Measure R. Their entries had to focus on specific rail extension projects and also take a look at larger-scale, inter-related transit planning challenges.
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Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Mixed-use block provides horse, car and human housing in central Manhattan
Located at the western edge of Midtown Manhattan, the Clinton Park mixed-use development, currently in the first stages of construction, will occupy more than half of a city block with 1.3 million sq ft of commercial and residential programs.
Designed by Enrique Norten and Ten Arquitectos, the building fills a void in the urban fabric by integrating multiple commercial uses at the base and providing 900 housing units in the 27 floors above. The base building will include a 50,000 sq-ft auto showroom fronting 11th Avenue with 250,000 sq ft of service floors below grade, a 30,000 sq-ft horse stable for the NYPD Mounted Police, a 7,500 square-foot neighborhood market, a 30,000 square-foot health club, and 200 parking spaces.
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