Día: 2 junio, 2014

[ENC094] Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan

****** Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan  by Charles H. Curran, M. Arch. Massachusetts Institute of Technology ****** Dubai is in crisis. The overall vacancy rate of the city continues to grow as more buildings come online with few or no tenants; moreover, the population has declined by one quarter of a … Read more [ENC094] Retrofit + shrink wrap Dubai : an urban recovery plan

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[ENC093] Shrink-Wrap

****** This text was posted based on a panel discussion Aaron Betsky led on Saturday, October 30, at the Venice Architecture Biennale, with Hani Rashid, Winy Maas, and Wolf Prix. Below is the text I gave those three gentlemen in preparation for the event. ****** » Last night, wrapping up the leftovers of the usual too-large dinner in that … Read more [ENC093] Shrink-Wrap

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[ENC092] Menguan las oficinas de arquitectura

****** Number of mid-size architecture firms shrink, new entrants increased ****** The Creative Industries Innovation Centre report shows the number of mid-size architectural firms have shrunk between 2009 and 2011. Larger firms – those with more than 200 employees – more than doubled, with new entrants boosting the number of practices at the smaller end. … Read more [ENC092] Menguan las oficinas de arquitectura

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[ENC091] Disminuye el Valle del Ruhr

  ****** The Ruhr Valley, which developed less from historically grown cities than from huge industrial settlements, was especially hard hit by processes of deindustrialization after World War II. Beginning in the mid-1950s, employment in the mining industry fell drastically; many mines closed, and in some cities of the Ruhr Valley unemployment reached 20 percent. … Read more [ENC091] Disminuye el Valle del Ruhr

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[ENC090] Shrinking Liverpool-Manchester

****** Manchester and Liverpool lie in the North-West of England, barely thirty-five miles apart. In the early nineteenth century, they epitomised the beginning of the industrial age; Manchester is justifiably known as the first industrial city in the world. Although it was between these two municipalities that Great Britain’s first passenger railway ran, the cities … Read more [ENC090] Shrinking Liverpool-Manchester

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