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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Courtesy Treehugger writer Jesse Fox, we bring this interview with Stacey Frost of Urban Re:Vision.
“A block is to the city as a cell is to the human body.”
Stacey Frost is an interesting woman, to say the least. When this former cattle rancher, neuropsychologist and options trader decided to focus on renovating historical buildings, she became [...]
Conveniently timed to take place one day before the kickoff of Ecobuild Emirates, TEDx Dubai has hit the radar. Organized by Giorgio Ungania (an Apple Distinguished Educator and Marketing Manager for SAE) and James Piecowye (DubaiEye host and professor at Zayed University), the Dubai event appears to be organizing as one of the more visible, regionally/globally [...]