This is just a fun thing I saw that I couldn’t pass up posting. A small reminder that both the built environment and the natural provide reciprocal inspiration. The images below are from Christoph Niemann’s most recent posting to the blog he writes for the NY Times, “Abstract City.”
Yesterday, we hosted a large event on the environmental transformation of the New York City region since 1609. Titled in the Wake of the Half Moon: Environmental Transformation of the New York Metropolitan Region: 1609-2109, the event traced the relationship between (new European) people and their environment since Hudson’s voyage to the region in 1609. [...]
The question of whether we retrofit or build up from the start is always present in sustainability endeavors. Generally speaking a retrofit is less disruptive, more efficient, and clearly more realistic than building from a blank slate. Sure there were eco-cities to (perhaps) be built in China and Dubai, but in places like New York, [...]
If you’ve wandered around the Village anytime in the last year or two, you’ve probably noticed the sculpturesque steel-and-glass building going up across from Cooper Square. You may have, like me, stopped outside the Cooper Union’s new academic building and remarked on the strange effect created by the folding and carved double-skin or noticed the [...]
New York is on top of many things regarding climate change vulnerabilities and potential adaptation strategies. But Chicago has us beat on the Green Roof thing. This is not to say that New York City’s efforts on the green roof front are intangible but City Hall and our tallest buildings do not have any such [...]
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