06/01/2017RESILIENT BY DESIGN LAUNCHES BAY AREA CHALLENGEMetropolitan Transportation Commission: Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, an innovative new approach to prepare the Bay Area for the…
05/30/2017GLOBAL DESIGN CHALLENGE SETS SIGHTS ON ADAPTING BAY AREA INFRASTRUCTURESF Business Times: Resilient by Design is an open call for multidisciplinary teams comprised of architects, engineers, designers and ot…
05/30/2017DESIGN TEAMS COMPETE FOR BEST SOLUTION TO SEA-LEVEL CONUNDRUMSan Francisco Chronicle: An ambitious design competition that seeks to make the Bay Area a model for how to prepare for sea-level rise kicks…
04/17/2017REBUILD BY DESIGN’S ENDURING LEGACYArchitect Magazine: The most moving architectural renderings I’ve seen lately show the New Jersey Meadowlands, not far from where I gre…
03/24/2017RIDING THE WAVE: UNITS IN WATER TRACK DATA FOR LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECTSI Live: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, more commonly known as the ADCP, is a key part of the Livin…
03/23/2017LIVING BREAKWATERS PROJECT: CAN IT PROTECT US FROM FUTURE STORMS?SI Advance: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the borough in October 2012, it took the lives of 24 Staten Islan…
02/17/2017DEMYSTIFYING HUDFast Company: Like many large federal departments, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is complex and misunderstood. …
02/04/2017BAY AREA: RESILIENT BY DESIGN CHALLENGE TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE WHEN THE GOVERNMENT WON’TImpact Design Hub: In response to President Trump’s resolve to ignore climate change and any policies that could help lessen the effects of …
01/27/2017A NEW COMPETITION TACKLES CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE BAY AREAFacts Coexist: After his inauguration, one of President Trump’s first orders of business was to reportedly "purge" all refer…
01/25/2017THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION GRANTS $4.6M TO BAY AREA LEADERS TO TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGEMass Transit Magazine: The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced a $4.6 million grant to a coalition of Bay Area leaders to create …
01/25/2017ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION AWARDS $4.6-MILLION TO FIGHT SEA LEVEL RISE IN BAY AREAThe Architects Newspaper: This week, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $4.6 million to the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Cha…
01/24/2017BOLSTERING THE BAY AREA AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTSRoute Fifty: The Bay Area in California just got its own urban resilience design challenge, with The Rockefeller Foundation on Mon…
01/23/2017NEW DESIGN COMPETITION AIMS TO TACKLE BAY AREA RESILIENCENext City: A contest inviting designers, policy-makers and developers to imagine climate change solutions for the San Francisco area will op…
01/22/2017ROCKEFELLER FUNDS SAN FRANCISCO DESIGN CHALLENGECommercial Property Executive: The Rockefeller Foundation just threw its support behind the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization recentl…
01/22/2017LAB EXPLORES PROJECTS TO LESSEN EFFECTS OF SEA LEVEL RISE ON SF BAYThe San Francisco Chronicle: The Bay Area will soon be a laboratory that tests how urban regions can prepare for the likelihood of sea …
01/18/2017HOW A DESIGN COMPETITION CHANGED THE US APPROACH TO DISASTER RESPONSEThe Guardian: Ten years ago, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg released a plan to create what he called “the first environmentally …