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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"River Edge"”.
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River Edge Retreat
… to seclusion and recharge. A retreat on a river's edge provides access to these attributes of nature. An effort to blur the boundary of the outdoors was made to encourage immersion into it. The choice of natural and relatively local material provides a relationship between the built and the …
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Rappahannock River Edge
Inherent in river is a dual nature: it is a dynamic, flooding entity which never moves but causes movement. This cord which ties the lands and towns along its edges also ties the individual town to the water. The river's character becomes apparent through the life of the town and the provision …
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Pequossette Riverway : design visions for the urban river edge, Watertown, Massachusetts
… activate and connect both sides of the Charles River for the community of Watertown. As of today, there has been a great deal of work to improve the recreational path linking Boston and Cambridge through Watertown to Waltham, Newton, and Weston. Nevertheless, the heavy car traffic of Watertown …
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Building the urban river edge : proposed connections to the water at the foot of Boston's Beacon Hill
… on the design of built form at the public urban river edge. It proposes the transformation of a portion of public park edge into public built edge. The Esplanade embankment at the foot of Boston's Beacon Hill forms the site for this thesis. The project area runs from the Longfellow Bridge at …
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Velodrome
… (the "Esplanade") caught in between the Charles River and the busy express way of Storrow Drive in Boston. The aim is to integrate the large-scale sports complex into a cityscape which can thus evolve positively whilst respecting the skyline of Boston and the surrounding city. The study attempts …
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River temperature behaviour in changing environments: trends, patterns at different spatial and temporal scales and role as a stressor
River/stream water temperature is one of the master water quality parameters as it controls several key iogeochemical, physical and ecological processes and river ecosystem functioning. Thermal regimes of several rivers have been substantially altered by climate change and other anthropogenic …
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School as a Center for Community: Establishing Neighborhood Identity through Public Space and Educational Facility
… creating environments that respond to this knowledge is the best building block to start from."