Urban Re:Vision Executive Director Eric Corey Freed interviewed with the Fox Business News team via satellite during the West Coast Green conference in San Francisco. Watch him keep a straight face while answering tough questions on the affordability of green.
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 [...]
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), [...]
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 [...]
European architects and Central Dallas CDC are working towards a major renovation of a city hall parking lot, transforming the plot into sustainable urban hillside. Re:Vision-Dallas was name of the competition and 2011 is the year when the winning design in this year’s international design contest, ‘Forwarding Dallas’, will be ready for action. Atelier Data and [...]
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 [...]
Perhaps you’ve heard. New York’s iconic landmark is undergoing a radical transformation: a $550 million renovation incorporating a comprehensive energy efficiency retrofit. The highly-publicized project is projected to save 38 percent of the building’s energy, reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 105,000 metric tons over the next 15 years and lower building costs by $4.4 million [...]
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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