By Ian Bryan on February 1, 2010
By Tim McKeough
If all goes as planned, a self-sustaining, mixed-use project conceived by a team of Portugese architects will be constructed on a city block in Texas.
In December, Portugal-based Atelier Data and MOOV were named the winners of Re:Vision Dallas, an international competition put on by the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation (CDCDC), an affordable [...]
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By Sensible City SM on November 24, 2009
By Robert Wilonsky in News You Can Actually Use, Actually
John Greenan has made it official: He and Brent Brown are going forward with Forwarding Dallas to fill that parking lot behind Dallas City Hall with a self-sustaining building. Says Greenan of his decision to go with the Portuguese architects behind the downtown hillside, “Dallas would be a richer city [...]
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By Sensible City SM on October 13, 2009
Imagine, if you will, a utopia smack in the heart of downtown Dallas. In this green, sustainable building of tomorrow, you might roll out of bed, take a shower and find your runoff water feeding vegetation growing on the roof and walls, upon which you’ll feast later that night. Or maybe you’ll move downtown and [...]
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By derekgordon on March 20, 2009
Re:Vision Dallas, the competition which gives creative urban design and community development professionals around the world a solid chance at creating America’s first fully sustainable innercity block, is sweeping social media around the world.
Find out about it at www.revision-dallas.com. Enter the competition at www.urbanrevision.com.
In addition to Italy, Serbia, United Kingdom, Brazil, Russia and Spain, here [...]
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By Ian Bryan on December 3, 2008
Dallas, TX - December 2, 2008 — The City of Dallas will host a full-day “Design Charrette” this Friday to examine the necessary framework and community impact of what will become the first fully sustainable, urban square block in the United States. The Charrette, attended by community design and urban planning experts from across the nation, [...]
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