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Herron is remembered for his "Walking City", later described as "the international icon of radical architecture of the Sixties". [1] Between 1964 and 1966, the concepts for the Walking City were published in Archigram, consisting of multi-story buildings mounted on giant telescopic steel legs, creating an ovoid and insect-like form. [2]
In Europe, the walking city was dominant up to 1850, when walking, or at most, horse-drawn transport, was the primary means of movement. [1] Many walking cities around the world became overrun by cars during the 1950s and 1960s, but some gradually reclaimed their walking qualities, such as Freiburg and Munich in Germany and Copenhagen in ...
Freedom Ship is a floating city project initially proposed in the late 1990s by engineer Norman Nixon. [1] [2] The namesake of the project reflects the designer's vision of a mobile ocean colony, such that it is free from the property, municipal, or federal laws of any nation states.
The preliminary design for the new Port business office, which also will include Port Commission meeting chambers, is a 60,000-square-foot, two-and-a-half story building.
The Walking City is constituted by intelligent buildings or robots in the form of giant, self-contained living pods designed to roam freely. The form derived from a combination of insect and machine and was a literal interpretation of Le Corbusier 's aphorism that a house was a "machine for living in."
Shinjuku redevelopment project is a large-scale urban design projects under the Metabolism movement of Japan. In this project, Maki proposed an expandable urban space consisting of artificial ground platforms and plazas on and above ground. These structures span across Shinjuku Station and allow new shops and housing units to be built upon.
The city of Spartanburg has worked with District 7 and Northside Development Group to secure private and grant funding for the park. Construction of park, walking trail behind TK Gregg Community ...
Eugene city council voted 7-1 this week to approve a slate of 55 walking and biking improvement projects which will be paid for with $15 million of the $61.2 million voters approved for street ...