Archive for the ‘Transport’ Category
Friday, April 30th, 2010
All of our patient waiting has finally paid off – the final design for San Francisco’s new transit center was finally revealed last week! The San Francisco Transbay Transit Center is designed to hold 12 transit systems and will also house the future high speed rail terminus.
Designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, the final design for the center includes some changes from past incarnation, most notably an awesome 5.4 acre green roof and public park that will have an amphitheater for music performances and movie screenings. Downtown SF is getting better and better, now let’s get that HSR line under construction!
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Friday, March 12th, 2010
Attention cyclists across the US: the wait for decent biking directions is over! Google Maps users can finally get biking directions along with walking, driving, and public transportation directions. Best of all, the new feature takes into account hills, bike lanes, and even busy intersections when calculating routes.
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Monday, March 1st, 2010
los angeles county, will provide as much as 40 billion USD for local transit related projects over the next 30 years.
Paris based firm odile decq and benoit cornette architects received a special jury prize for their proposal for the competition to design new transport solutions in LA county. The concept consists of specially designed vehicles which can be driven on freeways and bridges (each having a designated lane). the small vehicles, also have various parking stations around the city.
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Tuesday, October 13th, 2009
portugese firm impromptu arquitectos together with international firm selahattin tuysuz architects have sent us in images of their proposal for a cycling bridge in lisbon.
the design intends to be an iconic landmark flying delicately over the busy road of ‘2ª circular’. based in the shape of number ‘eight’, with an unsymmetrical arrangement, it combines in a single and continuous object the three main components of the bridge: the deck, the two access ramps and a suspension arch. the bridge geometry generates a dynamic visual experience, since it offers a rich diversity of forms varying according from where it is approach, both for the pedestrians and cyclists as well as the drivers passing under.
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Friday, September 25th, 2009
The question, “what will our cities of the future look like?”, is a question that has captured the imagination of many minds, at many times.
After all, here we are in the 21st century, a millennium ahead of us for testing and witnessing just how far the lines between science fact and science fiction will blur.
At the ground level in little ole Aotearoa we all have reason to despair at a lack of focus on our urban futures and the design of those urban futures. We don’t do “urban” as well as we need to.
A suggestion for Auckland’s Queens Wharf
Abstract from Urban Logic’s Article in the Idealog Magazine
Delaying the doing is a fine art. The tools are many and varied. Take time for a lavish display of consultation; commission a report or, even better, commission a scoping study for a possible report. Form a working party, a subcomitteee, perhaps a Commission (that’ll be productive). Wait while facts are found, legislation is passed, funds are freed or an election is held. If that doesn’t work, urban planners everywhere have another option: hold a design competition. Invite the world to enter. Now you have years before anything needs to be done.
Read the full article here at Idealog.co.nz
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Although electric vehicle use is on the rise, we’re certainly not out of the woods yet in terms of providing them with a steady supply of clean energy – that’s why designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees. His photovoltaic grove serves a dual function, acting as a go-to source for clean renewable energy while providing a shady spot for cars to park as they charge.
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Saturday, July 25th, 2009
What could be more fun than gliding along on an eco-chic bicycle? How about shooting through the skies in a pedal-powered monorail capsule! A bunch of entrepreneuring New Zealanders has created just such a human-powered monorail system, known as the Shweeb. Their creation does double duty, acting not just as an innovative transportation system, but also an amusement ride. Are our cities the next step?
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
delft based cepezed architects have won the competition to design the new bridge in the city centre of utrecht. the ‘rabobrug’ is a 275m long bridge for cyclists and pedestrians that will be built across the train tracks next to utrecht central station, the country’s main railway junction.
the bridge has been planned and anticipated for years, as there has never been a connection between the two vital city quarters on both sides of the tracks.
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Tuesday, May 12th, 2009
We need new leadership from architects, planners and designers.
Yes, we need them to design better buildings, streets and public spaces. But what we may need most from them has little to do with the act of design itself. That’s because we need a massive change in the very way buildings and places are planned, regulated and seen by the public. We urgently need people to re-imagine their cities in very directly political ways, and no one else is as prepared for that job as the talented few who’ve been trained to understand form and space and place.
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Sunday, May 3rd, 2009
Every day thousands of cars drive to and from the airport releasing tons of unnecessary carbon dioxide. If everyone parked their car and travelled [sic] collectively, the environment would be much better off. Because the average car in Sweden has 1,2 passengers. A coach can take over 50.
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