Inspired by water and its role in shaping the development of DUMBO, Brooklyn artist Casey Opstad transforms the Manhattan Bridge Archway’s corrugated metal fence into an Oasis of pixelated blue waves.
Check out this and other works put on by DUMBO BID…
Photo by nycstreets from Flickr (CC)
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you chalkboard notes for friendlier neighbourhoods, the Urban Land Institute’s Urban Open Space finalists and fun with maps.
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Shot from doorless helicopters from around the world, photographer Gray Malin has developed a photo series ‘A la Plage, A la Piscine’ looks at a diverse range of swimming pools and how it can become a blank canvas for a new world of art. Continue reading
Sou Fujimoto’s design for London’s Serpentine Gallery Pavilion
features a cloud-shaped grid of steel poles with varying density creating
a “nice mix of nature and architecture”. Visitors can climb up onto
transparent ledges within the structure or sit at cafe tables and chairs
incorporated in the design.
See more of the Pavilion here…
Photos by Jim Stephenson
Toronto strikes a nice balance between urban development and greenspace. There is an unusual number of parks and trees but they can’t replace vast nature and wildlife that live just outside the city and are a unique part of Canadian culture. Because not everyone has access to this special outdoor experience, the Gone Fishin’ Project brings a bit of the wild into the city core. Continue reading
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you an edible park in Seattle, a data visualization of London’s cycle paths and massive flooding in Central Europe.
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Taken from Wellington Station in New Zealand, photographer Catherine De Vries captures the street scape as a journey, traveling along the pedestrian access ways. De Vries wanted to explore the voyage one takes once they get off the train through to the street.
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Unused areas such as the Pearl Street Triangle, in Brooklyn’s
waterfront community of DUMBO, are being transformed from
the bottom-up with lighter, quicker, cheaper approaches to public
space design. These small changes are making a big impact.
Read more about the importance of public plazas here…
Photo by NYC DOT from Flickr (CC)
My first visit to New York City was a disorienting experience. Manhattan is so thoroughly filmed and documented that you can’t help but feel you know the place through TV and movies alone. Turning the corner onto the former set of a film brings to mind the classic optical illusion My Wife and My Mother-in-Law, in which you can perceive a young lady or an old woman in the same illustration, but never both at once. Here’s the restaurant from Seinfeld. Here are the alien spaceships from Men In Black. Here’s that corner of Central Park from Home Alone. And here’s the foot of the Manhattan Bridge, which I can’t place but I’m positive I’ve seen somewhere before. And on top of all that, the actual geography of Manhattan — the way all these disparate scenes and settings fit together — was never quite what I expected. Continue reading
Here’s our weekly review rounding up the best stories and ideas in public space from cities around the world. This week we bring you a cafe serving up more than just coffee, repurposed propane tank seating and mapping the urban “smellscape”.
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