Michael Maltzan and Deborah Weintraub, leaders of the effort to construct L.A.’s newly-opened Sixth Street Viaduct, talk about its lofty goals, significant challenges, and deep lessons. When the City of Los Angeles officially opened the new 6th Street Viaduct on July 9, a crowd of Angelenos swarmed the bridge deck, much the way New Yorkers had celebrated…
Clients, architects, and landscape designers collaborate to restore a crumbling shoreline. Where storm-driven trees and brush once tumbled down a 22-foot bluff into Carter’s Creek in Virginia’s Northern Neck, a living shoreline now reduces sediment pollution and introduces new life to the Chesapeake Bay. It’s a cutting-edge landscape intervention that flowed from a collaboration among four forward-thinking…
As an architect, urban planner, designer, or manufacturer of AEC building materials, the responsibility for maintaining our environment is bestowed upon you. As an architect specifically, you’re expected to consider how each decision you make impacts the environment not only physically but also socially. There are numerous considerations to be made during the design process…
Allford Hall Monaghan Morris has put forward plans for a seven-storey office building near Marylebone Station in north-west London An existing four-storey office block at 26-46 Lisson Grove and 18 Haynes Place would be demolished to make way for the scheme, which would contain six levels of offices plus a reception lobby and shops at…
These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or…
These cases are perfectly simple and easy to distinguish. In a free hour, when our power of choice is untrammelled and when nothing prevents our being able to do what we like best, every pleasure is to be welcomed and every pain avoided. But in certain circumstances and owing to the claims of duty or…