Monthly Archives: March 2010

From a DawnTown participant in Varna, Bulgaria:   “Every year in May, our university organizes an international competition for the students of Architecture.  It is a pleasure for me to invite other architects in South Florida as well. The subject is interesting … Continue reading →

Readers may find interesting this lecture about the shift from industrial hegemony to intangible production, from propriety to the commons, and thus from the factory to the city.  Thoughts?  Please comment liberally.

From UM: Listen to University of Miami School of Architecture Professors Carie Penabad and Catherine Lynn discuss Marion Manley, designer of the post-WWII buildings in which the school is located. In addition to designing numerous buildings on the University of … Continue reading →

A (re)new planning organization in south Florida, from their announcement:  FPZA Florida Planning and Zoning Association would like to invite you to a Lunch and Learn Meeting at 12:00 Noon, Friday, April 9, 2010 at the Playwright Irish Pub, Village … Continue reading →

From UM: The Haitian government’s Commission for Reconstruction has asked the University of Miami School of Architecture to host a 5-day event to address post-earthquake planning, March 24-28.  The workshop is being held at the University of Miami School of … Continue reading →

Roundtable with MAM Interim Director John Wetenhall, “Architecture: Museum Design”, Saturday, March 27, 4pm.  $12 – tickets on sale at the door at the Arteaméricas Art Fair, Miami Beach Convention Center, 1901 Convention Center Drive, Hall D.  Wetenhall will talk … Continue reading →

Check out the Herald’s report and slideshow on the progress of the Marlins stadium.

Check out Urbanista’s excellent post on Mayor Riley of Charleston, SC giving an inspiring speech about comprehensive urbanism to members of the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce.  DawnTown attended as well, and appreciated that underlying all of Mayor Riley’s thinking … Continue reading →

Architecture for Humanity launched its first landscape architecture competition: Safe Trestles.  Check it out here.  Deadline is April 17.  From the website: “Access to Trestles, one of North America’s most celebrated waves, is under threat due to safety and environmental … Continue reading →

DawnTown keeps giving: 2008 entrant Martin Smit just animated his entry and put it on youtube.

The Miami Downtown Development Authority, a sponsor of DawnTown, just released its latest occupancy study, showing that occupancy of buildings constructed in downtown since 2003 has increased in the last year from 66% to 74%.  Download the report here.  Occupants … Continue reading →

FDOT is working on a transportation plan out to the year 2060.  Make sure you participate so your grandkids don’t have to leave the state to know what at cho0-choo train is or ride one on a daily basis.  More … Continue reading →

The same organization that gave Cameron Sinclair/Architecture for Humanity a prize is dipping its toe in Miami.  An evening of TED-style speakers called TEDx Brickell, featuring Phillipe Houdard (Inside the Mind of a Child Soldier); Eghosa Omoigui (Director of Intel’s … Continue reading →

Free Green, a company that makes house plans available for free in exchange for specifying green materials from certain suppliers, put out a call for green house designs, and got 400 entries.  Now you can browse the entries and vote … Continue reading →

A landscape architect at Arquitectonica Geo has just launched Miami Food Tours.  From the website: “Join a local for a walk through South Beach and into six of the best restaurants and cafés for bites and sips at each stop. … Continue reading →

From the Washington Post: “Detroit, the very symbol of American industrial might for most of the 20th century, is drawing up a radical renewal plan that calls for turning large swaths of this now-blighted, rusted-out city back into the fields … Continue reading →

The American Planning Association Florida Gold Coast Section together with the Metropolitan Center at Florida International University and the Miami Science Museum invite you to a symposium:  “Planning for Haiti’s Recovery and Anticipating the Impacts on South Florida.”  Date: Friday … Continue reading →

Morningside Walking Tour, Saturday, March 6, 10 am -1 pm, 5601 NE 6th Avenue.  Stroll with Museum Resident Historian, Dr. Paul George along the bayside shores of this beautiful boom era community amidst an original subtropical hammock. Explore Miami’s first … Continue reading →

ULI Southeast Florida/Caribbean cordially invites you to a “Members Only” tour and networking opportunity: 1111 Lincoln Road, Miami Beach, Wednesday, March 24, 2010, 10:15am – 12:00pm.  Join ULI SE Florida/Caribbean on an exclusive members only tour of the revolutionary 1111 … Continue reading →

At least one company is in the game: Cabin Fever.  They have an office at 85 NW 71 St.  Other Miami companies doing prefab, or other companies doing prefab in Miami?  (Did the county pass that ordinance prohibiting prefab townhouses?)