Sentences with phrase «public spaces project»

He was co-director of the art in public spaces project «weitergehen» initiated by the culture department of the city of Hamburg «Kulturbehörde Hamburg».
His work explores the use of new technologies and is often conceived as public space Projects.
Robert Montgomery's work has been shown internationally, both in public space projects in cities such as London, Los Angeles, Instanbul, Berlin and Toulouse, as at venues such as Southbank Centre, London; Louvre / Jardin des Tuileries, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Baltic, Gateshead, and Palais de Tokyo Paris.

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Given the billions in stimulus dollars that will be spent in coming years on infrastructure projects, demand for planners is likely to grow in lockstep with the flow of federal and provincial dollars to social housing, transit, public spaces and recreational amenities.
Unlike historical development projects like Rockefeller Center and Times Square, Hudson Yards is trying to be a blend of a number of things at once: commercial, retail, public space, and residential.
The federal government has tested the public's appetite for a Netflix tax, a new smartphone app for streaming Canadian content and spending on «moonshot» projects like placing a network of balloons on the edge of space to boost Internet access.
Cordoba House project calls for a 15 - story community center including a mosque, performance art center, gym, swimming pool and other public spaces.
Projects were launched, some private and some public, to canvass space for signs of intelligence such as signals that followed a pattern.
Sonoma State University Wine Spectator Learning Center Wins «Top Real Estate Projects» Award The new home for Sonoma State University's Wine Business Institute includes the Wine Spectator Learning Center, a state - of - the - art facility with classrooms and outdoor space that have capacity for more than 300 students, venues for public seminars and events, and technology to showcase the business of wine and hospitality...
Decorated by area artists and community organizations, the goal of the project is to bring people together and change the way we use public space.
Projects include public open space Master Planning and Design for the Hudson River Park, NY, NY, Charles River Basin for the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation (MDC), the F&G Streets Retail District, Washington, DC.
The Erie County Department of Social Services («ECDSS») has announced the completion of a $ 1.4 million renovation project that completely remodeled the department's first - floor space at the Edward A. Rath county office building, the public's main portal for accessing public benefits.
«Our ambition is to create a connection between the viewer and the very real art of building taking place on a live construction project - especially as many of these are located in the very heart of public spaces,» says Art of Building manager Saul Townsend.
We have a situation in which not too long ago Senior Minister, Hon Osafo Marfo, on the 7th August, 2017 informed members of the public of plans by government to downsize the public service in order to reduce the impact of wages and salaries on the country's fiscal space and create the needed efficiency to execute more projects for the masses.
In anticipation of its public meeting on the projects next month, the Department of City Planning is letting the public sound off online about their recommendations for developments ranging from Columbia University's Baker Field sports complex expansion project to a proposal to clean up the stretch of green space between the George Washington Bridge and Dyckman Street.
The city has been doing outreach over assorted waterfront projects over the past year, and created a forum on their website with a map tool for the public to find publicly - accessible open space along the waterfront.
The project — built on a former U.S. Coast Guard base next to the St. George Ferry Terminal — started construction in February and will bring 115 residential units, 30,000 square - feet of retail, a 30,000 square - foot co-working space, a parking garage and a public plaza to the neighborhood, expected to be completed by 2018.
The project calls for improving recreational opportunities and public spaces along the Genesee River where it flows through Rochester's downtown business and entertainment district.
Pillinger was also instrumental in persuading both UK academic organisations and private companies to invest in the project and, in so doing, creating a huge public awareness and enthusiasm for space research.
Through a $ 2.6 million capital project investment, the Erie County Department of Public Works oversaw a complete renovation of the space at 1500 Broadway, including the installation of new electrical and climate systems, leading to the Erie County Health Mall's LEED Silver - certifiable designation.
Clear's amendment would eliminate the city's waterfront setback requirements for commercial projects, while Maniaci's amendment would allow public money be used for construction, would allow condo space and, maybe most importantly for the project, would kill a 45 - year - old prohibition against building on certain Wisconsin Avenue prime real estate.
AUDIO Recording - September 9, 2017 Placemaking Workshop hosted by the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library and facilitated by Project for Public Spaces
The program will be strengthened by developing an interconnected system of public green spaces, housing restoration projects, new infrastructure, community buildings and much more, helping to accelerate revitalization.
«The parks projects that rose to the top in last year's public process - from playground enhancements in the South Bronx, Upper Manhattan and the Rockaways to new pedestrian paths and trash cans in Prospect Park - were selected by New Yorkers who use those spaces most and are best positioned to determine what's needed to make them better.
«Using the REA Wing opens up some new space and some exciting possibilities so that we can grow the Public Market and make this a multi-season project.
Stringer said his approval of the project — a $ 15 billion redevelopment stretching from 30th to 33rd streets and 10th to 12th avenues — is conditional on the developer's promise to meet LEED silver standards, consult with the community to mitigate the effect of construction on noise and traffic and create public open space at the site.
The City launched a $ 20 million project in 2007 to transform the brownfield into a community open space for the public, unveiling it in 2011.
Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.
June 15, 2017 - The Buffalo & Erie County Public Library is honored to have been selected as one of three 2017 awardees of a «Heart of the Community» national grant, the signature outreach program of Southwest Airlines and its lead partner, Project for Public Spaces.
The new, public green space is an amenity for the existing business park, developed as part of the successful brownfield remediation project along Union Ship Canal at Buffalo Lakeside Commerce Park.
«People may have specific interest like NYCHA projects were they live or a senior center but in addition to that people also look to improve public spaces used by everyone.»
Community Board 11 wants to survey the undeveloped space in public housing complexes in the area — which houses more public housing than anywhere else in the country — to determine what types of projects will be acceptable to the community.
This afternoon, elected officials and three Manhattan community boards are out with a letter they have sent to Mayor Bloomberg and NYCHA Chairman John Rhea concerning a proposal to build luxury housing on parking lots and other open space surrounding public housing projects.
DCP has dedicated upfront funding for four projects and is studying whether sites benefiting from the rezoning of 40,000 square feet or more should automatically be required to provide outdoor public space.
Nor is it obvious how grand a grand challenge can be, such as in space exploration: «You can start this kind of activity with small robotic projects, but at some point it doesn't scale up very well,» says Howard McCurdy, a space historian and public policy professor at American University in Washington, D.C. «Nobody knows where the limit is.»
So far, the project has consumed about $ 7 million in private and public funds, and this week the European Space Agency kicked in another $ 1.25 million.
The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) and the PS1 public science archive have been made possible through contributions by the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max - Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, the Queen's University Belfast, the Harvard - Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No.
To handle the vast amount of data generated by the observatories, BL intends to innovate powerful open source software that will enable members of the general public to make a material contribution to the project by creating their own search tools, and donating unused CPU space to boost the projects computing prowess.
A new NASA - launched citizen science project seeks the public's help in reviewing more than a million animations to identify moving space objects that could be new discoveries.
«We know that basically, planets form at about the same time as their stars from all the leftover dust and gas kicked up,» said Joel Green, Project Scientist at Space Telescope Science Institute's Office of Public Outreach (STScI.)
Pink Street is an urban rehabilitation project to enhance the experience of public space at Rua Nova do Carvalho.
London, About Blog Harris Bugg Studio is a highly - skilled landscape design practice working across a wide range of projects from private gardens to commercial & public spaces.
Passionate about all facets of landscape architecture, our studio has completed projects of many types and locations around the world, ranging widely from high - profile public spaces to high - end residential properties.
I am a public education director of Educational Technology and Innovation, a Design Project Manager, involved with architecture and learning space design.
For example, in the economics unit, children determined the local cause for which they would raise money, and in the civics and government project, they determined what aspect (s) of the park or public space they thought most needed to be improved.
The project's internal public way and relaxed spaces are important aspects sparking students» outlook and artistic creativity.
There is an astonishing scale and complexity to the brief for this project and considerable architectural skill is demonstrated in its realisation; not just in resolving the brief, but in the contribution to the city — in massing, composition and the generosity of the public route through the grand stepped atrium space.
For example, at Milan High School, a public school in Milan, Michigan, the PBL learning addition called the Milan Center for Innovative Studies has a designated collaboration space, the Innovation Zone, where students conduct individual research, collaborate on group projects, and give presentations.
For their final project, they organized a public festival called «Sanctuary,» with teachers, the SPACE artist, local community organizers, and neighbors, to create community - wide dialogue and imagine possibilities for change.
«We learned that the children were fascinated by the Metro, monuments, museums, Union Station, natural spaces, public sculptures, and playgrounds,» says Project Zero researcher Mara Krechevsky.
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