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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"street edge"”.
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The Perry Street Edge: Developing A New Pedestrian Portal To Virginia Tech
At the crossing of a strong architectural edge and an axis line, it is necessary to articulate the intersection and acknowledge the moment. But what if, at the point of this intersection, other contextual factors work against the articulation? What if there is an opportunity to not only mark the …
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Retail/commercial edges in the contemporary urban context
… functional characteristics are germane to retail edges. The work is structured around and supportive of an attitude that views social interaction as a vital and necessary attribute of urban life and therefore of retail systems design and development in cities. The edges along three major Boston …
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Creating Connections in the City: From road to street; and buffer zone to landscape: Residual highway space as a tool in stitching segregated neighbourhoods into the urban fabric
… a road that divides, into a connective street; and by inhabiting the buffer zone with program in order to create an active landscape. The strategic choice of site is at an intersection of a new connection made into Langa, and presents the opportunity to address both these conditions of …
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Structuring public place through the design of access systems : the design of urban public place, an addition to the "New Market" of Calcutta, India
… for the city's varied population is the street; a few 'street-like' built spaces-covered street-edge arcades and the· 'interior streets' of the city's covered markets still function as public places, creating a civic collective realm. An analysis of these public places shows that rather …
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Restructuring the urban neighborhood : the dialogue between image and ideology in Phoenix Hill, Louisville, Kentucky
… pattern by confining buildings close to the street edge while leaving the interior of the block free. A new pattern of community open space maintains this block center as a two-acre park for the common enjoyment of all residents. This model for Phoenix Commons is extended to other blocks to …
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Life in Downtown
Architecture is a product of its surroundings. The response to site, program, and history of place differs everytime. How we interpret a place is influenced by our own experiences in life. We each possess a unique set of tools which we use to construct the spaces that surround us. A place is given …