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CityRacks Winner: It’s a Standing O

By Brad Aaron | Nov 14, 2008 | 22 Comments

Danish Ambassador Torben Getterman accepts on behalf of the winning designers. Photo: Nathan John. Winners of the CityRacks Design Competition were announced this morning. First place for outdoor rack went to Ian Mahaffy and Maarten De Greeve (Bettlelab) of Copenhagen, whose prototype will be adopted as "the new standard bicycle rack installed on New York […]

Tonight: See the Blueprint for a New Upper West Side

By Brad Aaron | Nov 13, 2008 | 27 Comments

Streets designed for safe, accessible, and equitable use. That is the vision of the "Blueprint for the Upper West Side: A Roadmap for Truly Livable Streets," to be unveiled tonight by the Upper West Side Streets Renaissance Campaign. The product of one year of community-driven planning, in consultation with urbanist legends Jan Gehl and Donald […]

Design Comp Winner Envisions Neighborhood Bike-Share for Red Hook

By Ben Fried | Nov 12, 2008 | 2 Comments

The bike loft at the Smith-9th Street station designed by competition winner Jonathan Rule. The Forum for Urban Design announced the winner of its Red Hook bicycle plan competition Monday night, awarding top honors to Brooklyn native Jonathan Rule. The competition sought out ideas to make transit-poor Red Hook the city’s most bikeable neighborhood, asking […]

Designing NYC Streets for the 21st Century

By Ben Fried | Nov 6, 2008 | 3 Comments

Earlier this week Transportation Alternatives announced the winners of its "21st Century Street" design competition, selecting three entries from more than a hundred submissions re-imagining the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Ninth Street in Brooklyn. Juror Michelle de la Uz, director of the Fifth Avenue Committee, listed safety and the pedestrian environment as her top […]

New Duffy Square Adds Glass Crown Atop Broadway Boulevard

By Brad Aaron | Oct 20, 2008 | 8 Comments

Last week saw the latest expansion of the public realm in Midtown, with the official unveiling of the long-awaited redesign of Duffy Square at Broadway and Seventh Avenue, the northern edge of the Times Square "bowtie." In conjunction with the city, the Theater Development Fund, the Times Square Alliance and the Coalition for Father Duffy […]

Public Picks Grand Army Plaza Design

By Brad Aaron | Oct 10, 2008 | 8 Comments

The people have spoken, choosing a design for Grand Army Plaza that connects it to Prospect Park, taking Flatbush Avenue underground and making pedestrians the primary users of the space. "Canopy," a plan submitted by a team of French designers, took people’s choice in the "Reinventing Grand Army Plaza" competition, sponsored by the Design Trust […]

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