Very cool; and evident how this design works when you’re traversing Eixample!
Constructed in the early 20th century, Eixample is a district of the Spanish city of Barcelona known for the urban planning that divided the district into octagonal blocks. Influenced by a range of schools of architecture, Eixample was designed in a grid pattern with long streets, wide avenues, and rounded street corners.
Despite being in the center of a thriving European metropolis, the district provides improved living conditions for inhabitants including extensive sun light, improved ventilation, and more open green space for public use. And of course, the result from the grid-like structure is astounding from above.
(via lickystickypickywe)
23 October 2011
In cancelling, modifying, or delaying projects—some already funded and ready to go— [Rob] Ford has begun to pick at this city, pulling the ends of what he deems to be small, useless threads. The thing about the city, though, is that what may seem like small, expendable threads turn out to be woven and connected to so many other things, that when you tug on them hard enough something you didn’t expect begins to unravel too.
~ Jake Tobin Garrett, “This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things,” Torontoist, June 7, 2011
8 June 2011
St. Lawrence North: A Striking Addition.
On the morning of June 7th, the City of Toronto announced the winner of the St. Lawrence north market reconstruction. The winning concept is the “red” covered street created by Adamson Associates Architects and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners. I personally think it’s a gorgeous choice, and one that is quite courageous. It takes elements of the St. Lawrence Market site (particularly the angle of the roof peaks and the similar long, rectangular footprint) and integrates a fair dose of modernity (in a way that Toronto has failed at in the past). There’s a nice writeup on Torontoist too. Check it out:
I particularly like the sightline created by the interior, toward the beautiful old tower on the Market:
It’s a big improvement over the shit-stain (relatively speaking) that presently serves as the farmer’s market, across the street from its graceful partner:
(Courtesy of flickr user Toronto_Ron.)
8 June 2010
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