TRENDHUNTER MAGAZINE, the futurist/consumerist platform read in over 100 countries, has been picking up more and more architecture content lately – including the Re:Vision Dallas’ winning design by Portuguese firms Atelier Data and MOOV. View their photo gallery for the project by clicking here. A rundown area of Dallas, TX is being given an eco makeover by [...]
The Re:Visionary Project – Van Jones from Urban ReVision on Vimeo. Van Jones is an eco-visionary, award-winning human rights attorney and powerhouse speaker. He is the founder of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (EBC), a strategy and action center, working for justice, peace, and opportunity in urban America. He has served on the [...]
CienciaHoje in Portugal picked up our “Forwarding Dallas” story from Urban Re:Vision: 2009-11-26 By Marlene Moura Projecto português «Forwarding Dallas» venceu competição internacional O conceito de urbanismo sustentável vai tomando conta das consciências em nome do ambiente e, pouco a pouco, estratégias transversais vão sendo aplicadas no planeamento de construções mundiais. O futuro «Forwarding Dallas» [...]
Самодостаточность – понятие субъективное. Вот как может быть самодостаточным квартал большого города? Оказывается, вполне может. Именно таким должен быть квартал Forwarding Dallas, который должен появиться в городе Даллас через несколько лет. Застройщик Urban Revision со штаб-квартирой в Сан-Франциско и португальская архитектурная фирма Atelier Data and MOOV выиграли конкурс на застройку одного из холмов в черте [...]
Forwarding Dallas Earlier this year, Dwell editor Aaron Britt traveled down to Dallas, Texas, for a design charrette with Re:Vision Dallas. The project is a collaboration between Urban Re:Vision and the Central Dallas Community Development Corporation that aims to turn a downtown Dallas city block into a beacon of sustainable building and urban design. In [...]
Based on polls so far, Little Diversified Architectural Consulting’s “Entangled Bank” is capturing the majority of citizen responses for Urban Re:Vision’s “Re:Vision Dallas” (popularity in no way influences the judging process for the most feasible block). Today we learned that Entangled Bank has been shortlisted (out of over 600 entries) for presentation at the World [...]
How would you create a city block that was fully sustainable? A competition to redevelop an entire block of downtown Dallas asked urban planners to do just that, and the finalists have just been announced. The competition is billed as more than pie-in-the-sky. The Central Dallas Community Development Corporation, a non-profit, is acting as lead [...]
Green-Buildings.Com, the green building and education service, reviewed Re: Vision Dallas’ ECOBlOCK entry from the firm ODA in New York City. Inspired by the basic elements of wind, water, earth and sun, ECOBLOCK focuses on the aspect of creating a community. ODA did not win the competition, but they submitted a very interesting concept that [...]
On December 5, our allies at Urban Re:Vision joined forces with the City of Dallas, Texas to host a planning session for an incredibly ambitious green building project. The day-long charrette brought together city officials, urban planners, master architects and green building experts in anticipation of a truly visionary project: the creation of a [...]
This week we are in San Francisco supporting Urban Re:Vision for a 2-day intensive design session to redefine the city’s Civic Center district using Re:Vision’s Unified Conceptual Framework which is currently guiding our sister project, Re:Vision Dallas. To quote Mayor Gavin Newsom’s goal: “We are transforming our Civic Center into a global model for how [...]
Urban Revision will be launching Building Blocks, its international design competition which will determine the future of a fully sustainable city block, just a stones throw from City Hall in Dallas, TX. Plus, a 6-month lecture series TBD is in development. We’ll be steering the DC greenie/social media crowd to the LinkLive Inaugural Ball at the [...]
… just ran an interesting story which points out several exciting community programs, leading with Re:Vision’s fully sustainable city block in Dallas: Sustainable Community Concept Takes Hold in Texas, Georgia, Tennessee Oakland, Calif. — The drive to create communities that balance environmental, economic and social responsibilities through planned development is growing as shown by projects in [...]
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