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Expo Light Rail opening in Los Angeles
April 28, 2012

I’m proud to say this picture was taken in Los Angeles, a city many still see as the car-oriented city.

(Source: Los Angeles Times)

Are you a “Shadow Driver?”
This video describes a very interesting concept: “shadow drivers.” Shadow drivers would abandon the car if it wasn’t for free parking and road widening.
ITDP México

(Source: mexico.itdp.org)

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Restoration work on Wilshire Boulevard Temple’s dome.
Architect: A.M. Edelman, restoration by Levin & Associates Architects
Los Angeles, CA
via LAobserved.com

(Source: laobserved.com)

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The true value of a building is a sound structure and a versatile floor plan. A diagram illustrating the different layers of a building and their relative speed of change or replacement.

How Buildings Learn
Stewart Brand

humanscalecities:

Demolition vs. New construction permits in Detroit (2006-2009)

Drylands in the West
Article on water scarcity and the challenge of sustaining life in arid lands
designobserver.com

• Photo 1: Granite Reef Aqueduct, Central Arizona Project, Outside Cienega Springs, Arizona, 1998
• Photo 2: Havasu Pumping Plant
• Photo 3: Navajo Dam

(Source: places.designobserver.com)

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Adaptive reuse project salvaging the remains of original New Town buildings in Edinburgh.

Young Street Lane Offices Edinburgh, Scotland
Malcolm Fraser Architects

(Source: architonic.com)

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Retrofit instead of tear-down. The New York Times says “reuse seems like the inevitable wave of the future.”

Renovated housing project in Paris, France
La Tour Bois-le-Prêtre
Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal

Google’s doodle celebrating architect Mies van der Rohe’s 126th birthday

Construction Training and Education Center (CTEC) for At-Risk Youths
Wilmington, Delaware

(Source: archpaper.com)