eva wang studio july 28, 2010
Eva Wang grew up in Harbin, China, was educated in Chicago, USA, and now is running Eva Wang Studio in Shanghai, China. Eva Wang Studio provides a wide range of services to their clients, from planning through architecture to interior design...
leo a daly, beijing july 21, 2010
Leo A Daly recently opened their Beijing office, with Charles Peace and Yufung Guo in charge. Both Charles and Yufung have been working and living in China for many years...
Emerging Neighborhoods july 20, 2010
On Thursday, July 8, 2010 ULI Colorado hosted a YLG Discovery Series focusing on Emerging Neighborhoods. The program featured keynote presenters Peter Park, Director of Planning, City & County of Denver, and Mickey Zeppelin, founder of Zeppelin Development...
mad july 14, 2010
MAD is an award-winning international company that was founded by Ma Yansong in the early 2000’s in Beijing, China. Today, MAD is a fifty-person architectural firm with a truly international team that builds their work around the globe...
belmar july 7, 2010
Belmar is one of the most successful grey field renewable projects that has been completed in the past decade. Tim Van Meter is with Van Meter Williams Pollack. Van Meter Williams Pollack been contracted to co-write the urban design guideline and framework, and implement part of the residential component...
mulvannyg2 architecture june 30, 2010
Mulvanny G2 is a 40-year-old architectural company. Like many other businesses, Mulvanny G2 has gone through a series of transformations over the years. Today the company is an international organization, designing projects in the U.S. and outside its borders...
union station, denver june 23, 2010
Union Station in Denver, Colorado, like many other railroad station sites, is going through a transformation. For decades, debate has been going on about what to do with the site and adjacent properties. Finally construction broke ground in 2009. Frank Cannon, who is a partner at Union Station Neighborhood Co., is overseeing the project...
Urban design committee june meeting, 2010
This podcast episode is a recording of the June 16th Urban Design Committee meeting. In it ten local architects and professionals discuss the options for renovations and modifications to the 16th Street Mall...
social media and urban design june 16, 2010
Social networking has become more popular over the past few years. As with any new technology, social networking has an effect on how urban designers do business. Once again, we have to adapt and adapt quickly. Ben Brown with Place Makers has been using social networking for a while in urban design projects...
Urban design committee may meeting, 2010
The Urban Design Committee serves the American Institute of Architects and its Board of Directors through monthly meetings at which AIA members, and the public, can become involved in a variety of issues of interest in the built environment in Denver and throughout Colorado...
public art june 9, 2010
What is public space without a piece of art? Public art can enhance and complete the urban space or destroy it. Henry Beer has been an advocate for public art for years. Henry also wrote a paper about this subject called Realizing a Program of Public Art...
form base code june 2, 2010
Form Base code has been popular for the past decade. Many municipalities are switching from conventional zoning to form base code. Dick Farley talks about the pros and cons of Form Base code in this podcast interview...
zocalo may 26, 2010
Zocalo is a young development company in Denver. One of the managing partners is Chris Achenbach, architect, who migrated into the development world. Chris started this transformation from design-building services that he provided to his clients and later on moved into partnership with a developer. He had to learn about financing of the projects and other specifics of running Zocalo...
Avalon baymay 19, 2010
Avalon Bay is a national development and investment trust company that builds many residential projects. One of these projects is Avalon Chrystie Place in New York City. The project is built over the subway tunnel and accommodates many uses. Location of the apartment building brought challenges, which Fred Harris talks about in this podcast interview with Urban Design Podcast...
manage your it may 19, 2010
As technology changes over the years so does the way urban planners and other design professionals do business. We use more computers for everyday work than 20 years ago. With these changes we have had to acquire additional knowledge along the way. We had to learn how to manage a single computer and a network of computers, and learn how to make decisions about upgrading or switching to new systems. Dr. Ramiro Montealegre is a specialist in Information Technolo
Urban Design podcast and aia denver may 6, 2010
I am pleased to announce the beginning of collaborative efforts to provide you with more useful information about urban design between Urban Design Podcast and AIA Denver’s Urban Design Committee. The Urban Design Committee of AIA Denver’s chapter holds monthly meetings where professionals meet to discuss issues and opportunities related to urban design. The monthly meetings are held on the third Wednesday of each month at the AIA Denver office. The meetings will be recorded and broadcasted on Urban Design Podcast.
what every architect needs to know about business may 5, 2010
You might be thinking about starting your own design firm, or perhaps you have already started one. If so, you should be concerned about developing a sound strategy for your new business. Why does this matter? Al Davis, a professor of business strategy and entrepreneurship, explains the importance of developing an effective strategy for your business...
news april, 2010
Urban Design Podcast has an additional segment to its weekly interviews. On the first of each month, an urban design news section hosted by Austin McKeen will be provided.
great city april 28, 2010
Great City is a Seattle based non-profit organization that focuses on mart growth in the Seattle area. How do they do that? ..
urban design podcast and Uli colorado april 26, 2010
Collaboration between Urban Design Podcast and ULI Colorado begins in the month of May 2010.ULI Colorado organizes monthly events with tours and key speakers. The events will be recorded and available for download.
green infrastructure april 21, 2010
Green infrastructure is contrasted to gray infrastructure. Dan Staley described green infrastructure as plants, woody plants, landscaping, and parks; he also described the functions that they are perform. New elements in green infrastructure include photovoltaic panels and wind turbines...
sprawl repair kit april 14, 2010
We all know the problems that occurred with the sprawl that happened in the decades after World War II in the U.S. Many different solutions have been suggested for ways to improve suburbs. One of them has been proposed by Galina Tahchieva and is called the Sprawl Repair Kit. You might already be familiar with the Sprawl Repair Kit, but you probably did not know that Tahchieva has written a new companion book called The Sprawl Repair Manual...
solar access april 7, 2010
Dan Staley introduces listeners of this podcast to the benefits and conflicts with solar access. One of these conflicts is that in an urban environment, trees often grow into the solar access plains. Each species also grows at a different speed and to a different width and height, all of which must be incorporated into the design...
ken yeang march 31, 2010
Eco-design has become popular over the past few decades in the architectural industry. Dr. Ken Yeang and the Llewelyn Davies Yeang Company started the practice of eco-design a few decades earlier. You can find Yeang’s work in many countries, including Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Jamaica, England, Turkey, Singapore, etc...
density march 24, 2010
Density is a very popular topic of conversation at any conference or seminar that focuses on city planning. David Dixon has been speaking and implementing his ideas on density for years. The density of the twenty-first century unlocks the ability to create communities that are more livable and foster economical opportunity and sustainability in David’s view..
olin march 17, 2010
David Rubin asserts that the twenty-first century is a century of landscape architecture, while the twentieth century was about architecture. His argument is that landscape architects are building spaces for society and forming human interaction...
smart growth conference march 10, 2010
Ninth Smart Growth Conference was held in Seattle in February 2010. Attendance of this conference exceeded all expectations of the organizers. Such a high attendance emphasizes again the increasing importance of Smart Growth...
virtual edge march 3, 2010
What is beyond Sketch Up, 3D Studio MAX, and Form Z visualizations for urban planners? Brian Quinn is one of many who started to use the next level of modeling techniques. Brian builds his study models by using multi-user virtual environments (MUVE), mirror worlds, and immersive connected experience technologies...
the master plan of new orleans february 24, 2010
The master plan of New Orleans has been a very controversial project. The project is highly visible and politically charged. David Dixon with Goody, Clancy & Associates had an opportunity to work on the master plan of New Orleans. David was impressed how organized, thoughtful, and committed city officials were about rebuilding urban neighborhoods and preserving the remaining culture of New Orleans...
A realm of realities in landscape architecture
february 17, 2010
We often associate landscape architecture with architecture. The names are similar, but the fundamentals couldn’t be more different. For example, the building materials which used for projects in each discipline are very different...
small urban winds february 10, 2010
Nowadays, we cannot seemingly get enough of green energy. We want to put solar panels in every project. Wind turbines are used but are less popular due to their complexity and the winds required for operation. Whatever the method of implementation, using green energy is a good thing. Bil Becker and his firm Aerotecture International,...
drawing shortcuts february 3, 2010
Jim Leggitt is one of the few who can express his ideas and thoughts through free hand sketches. This is indeed becoming rare skill in the world of computerized 3D modeling and animation. Many young designers ask themselves how valuable this skill is in today’s business. Advisably, learning free hand rendering skills takes more time and effort as compared to learning new 3D software applications...
Feng Shui in urban design january 27, 2010
Often, we associate feng shui with architecture, interior design, and residential spaces. However, feng shui can be used in urban design as well. Feng shui can be implemented on a large scale, such as for entire city design, and in the small details, such as for the design of buildings and interiors. The principles of feng shui indicate that we are impacted by the universe; thus, we should start looking at our projects on a large scale...
virtual cities january 20, 2010
Over the past decade, we have moved from hand sketches to Photoshop renderings and have become accustomed to including three-dimensional representations of our designs in certain projects. Sometimes we even use three-dimensional animations to present our work. What is the next step for architectural presentations?...
urban design for an urban century january 13, 2010
The book Urban Design for an Urban Century by Lance Jay Brown, David Dixon, and Oliver Gillham would be a great addition to any library. This book is a continuation of the work of these three different professionals. A true collaboration between the authors helped to create this book and open a dialog about urban design...
vertical city january 6, 2010
As a junior urban designer, Wong See Huat from Singapore had a chance to work on a few interesting urban projects. One of these projects was Vertical City in the Guang Ming central district of Shen Zhen, China. Wong See Huat contributed to this project while working for SCP Consultants Private Limited...
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