A design competition for California’s capitol mall Location: Sacramento, California Design Team: Justin Viglianti, Andrea Gaffney, Robert Glass Sponsors: AIA Central Valley + The City of Sacramento Project Year: 2011 Catalyst, the 2011 international open ideas competition, delivered world-class forward thinking, innovative and implementable design solutions to reinvent Capitol Mall–the gateway to the [...]
Retrofitting Infrastructure: Strategies for Freeway Reformation in Oakland
This project re-imagines the freeway’s contribution to urban space by demonstrating regional, environmental, and community strategies integral to the system’s reformation: PROBLEM In the 1940’s and 50’s a new system of mobility revolutionized how we think about cities. It was a system thought to relieve congestion and increase connectivity throughout metropolitan regions. In the Bay [...]
Mare Island: Rethinking Abandoned Military Bases
In the 1990′s military bases across the US were shutdown leaving thousands of government workers unemployed and hundreds of cities with large budget deficits that most have not been able to remedy. Mare Island in Vallejo California was home to a ship building Naval base that served as a major hub of San Francisco Bay [...]
Urban Revolutions
Local bicycle advocates joined Talking Heads lead singer David Byrne to discuss the critical role cycling will play in Boston and other cities working toward sustainability. The event also marked the US launch of the Copenhagen Wheel, a SENSEable City Lab project. The images shown are from Jacqueline Douglas’ presentation given at M.I.T. this past [...]
