Business Insider: Like most US coastal regions, the San Francisco Bay Area is under threat from rising seas. To make matters worse, researchers say that parts of the Bay Area are sinking, which could wipe out between 20 and 165 square miles of coastal land, along with the communities that live there. Instead of fighting the […]
Thursday, April 55PMCenter for Civic Innovation115 M.L.K. Jr Dr SW (3rd Floor)Atlanta, GA 30303 Please join us on April 5th to learn about and give feedback on the preliminary designs proposed by six local university teams for the Ted Turner Drive Resilience Corridor Competition. The City of Atlanta, in partnership with Central Atlanta Progress, 100
TED TURNER DRIVE RESILIENCE CORRIDOR CHALLENGE OPEN HOUSE Read More »
Curbed: This week, Manhattan Community Board Three heard testimony regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposal to prevent catastrophic flooding while improving East River parkland spanning from Montgomery Street on the Lower East Side up to East 25th Street. The design is a collaboration between the city, AKRF, One Architecture, Mathews Nielsen Landscape
COMMUNITY BOARD CONSIDERS FLOOD BARRIER PARK FOR MANHATTAN’S EAST SIDE Read More »
Houston Public Media: The impact of Hurricane Harvey served as a catalyst to rethink how Houston lives with flooding. But, can resilient design and protective infrastructure also be aesthetically pleasing? Or even become a city’s attraction? Hurricane Harvey dumped approximately 30,000 cubic yards of silt onto Buffalo Bayou Park; that’s comparable to about nine Olympic-sized swimming
IN-DEPTH: CAN HOUSTON APPLY NEW YORK’S BIG THINKING ON FLOOD PROJECTS? Read More »
Tuesday, March 276:30PMP.S. 20166 Essex Street New York, NY The Mayor’s Office of Recovery & Resiliency will give a presentation to the full board on the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project. More details here>>
MANHATTAN COMMUNITY BOARD #3 FULL BOARD MEETING Read More »
Monday, March 266:30PM NYU School of Dentistry433 First Avenue, Room 210New York, NY Update on the East Side Coastal Resiliency (ESCR) Project and review of ESCR’s proposed submission to the Public Design Commission. There are a number of agenda items as well as an update from ESCR. Click here for more information>>
MANHATTAN COMMUNITY BOARD #6 LAND USE AND WATERFRONT COMMITTEE Read More »
Inhabitat: Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world’s cities if we do nothing — that’s the message Studio Roosegaarde vividly brought last week to the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York City. The studio’s light display, Waterlicht New York, showed the height of water levels during 2012’s Hurricane Sandy. Waterlicht,
THIS IS HOW HIGH NYC’S SEA LEVELS WILL RISE IF WE DON’T TAKE CLIMATE ACTION Read More »
Friday, March 235:30PMRebuild by Design 20 Cooper Sq, 2nd Fl., New York, NY Join authors Henk Ovink, Jelte Boeijanga and special guests for the launch of TOO BIG. Rebuild by Design’s Transformative Response to Climate Change. How will society confront climate change? Faced with rising sea levels and more powerful storms, we all know that what worked
BOOK LAUNCH: TOO BIG. REBUILD BY DESIGN’S TRANSFORMATIVE RESPONSE TO CLIMATE CHANGE Read More »
Mississippi Business Journal: “Green design” in architecture is far more than a buzz word or a fad. It is increasingly just the way things are done to not only preserve the environment, but the value of the owner’s investments. Green architecture as a phrase may be a fad, said Michael Berk, AIA, director of the School
Thurday, March 228:30AM Grand Central Tech335 Madison Avenue, 4th FloorNew York, NY 10017 Even beyond the tap, the value intrinsic to water can be derived from many sources. How can investment in water infrastructure reduce the impacts of climate change and increase the economic vibrancy of cities? In an era of increasing efficiency and automation, where
WORLD WATER DAY 2018: OUR BLUE ECONOMY Read More »
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