Monthly Archives: June 2010

From the DIY City website: “Our cities today are relics from a time before the Internet.  Services and infrastructure, created and operated by the government, are centrally managed, non-participatory and closed.  What is needed right now is a new type … Continue reading →

Sorry we are slow to report on another competition in Miami, this one produced by Arquitectum for its second foray into Miami (their first was last year’s Museum of Immigration competition).  The topic was a new “civic center”, basically an … Continue reading →

From the latest Miami Dade College newsletter: “MDC’s Hospitality Management and Culinary Arts program is creating an environmentally sound setting from the ground up.  The new state-of-the-art building will be the first of its kind in the area to apply … Continue reading →

The secret Jedi Council of the DawnTown topic committee has chosen the new topic!  DawnTown staff will now spend the next month preparing the brief and materials for launch in August.  We’re stoked for another year of innovative architecture in … Continue reading →

Here is a link to the final presentation of the AIA’s Miami River charrette (pdf), presented last week during the AIA’s annual national conference held this year in Miami.  Local government leaders were so impressed to have smart architects from … Continue reading →

The Home Depot recently launched a website called the Sustainable Cities Institute, supposedly to offer tools for progressive planning to average communities.  They also announced a couple of million dollars of prizes for sustainable development.  Check out the website and … Continue reading →

Have you seen LEGO’s series of famous buildings?  The Empire State Building (above), Fallingwater, the Taj Mahal.  Check it out.  If I were a city planner, I would require models of all proposed projects made of LEGO.

Another first-rate Miami NGO, YoungArts, which provides mentoring and scholarships to high-school students across the nation who are extravagantly talented in a particular art (sometimes several), has also created a series of documentaries about the mentoring between world-renowned artists and … Continue reading →

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Just a reminder that, during the AIA national conference, which is in Miami this year, this week, one of the events is a multi-day charrette on the Miami River, which AIA is calling its Miami River Catalyst Plan.  DawnTown attended … Continue reading →