eVolo Magazine is an exploration of the leading edge of building design. I was fortunate to contribute two articles to the third edition titled CITIES OF TOMORROW Envisioning the Future of Urban Habitat, available now. BEIJING CREATIVE ZONE: At its heart, the UNStudio’s winning design for the Beijing River Creative Zone competition is a place of evolution. Designed as an urban interface with the natural environment, the complex will house and incubate creative business ventures that, interacting with each other, form a creative economic enterprise cluster. From the urban grid it may be an interpretation of the adjoining undulating waterway, or conversely from the perspective of the river, the segmented design scheme may be seen as breaking the vast Beijing urban grid.
MILLENNIUM PARK AND THE FUTURE OF GREEN URBANISM Interview with Helen Doria: People are much more attracted to a project that is extraordinary than something that plays it safe. Who wants to give their money to a nice safe ordinary project? What excites communities? Certainly not a cookie cutter project. The vision and the vision carriers are the ones who make cities spectacular. Those vision carriers can be everyone from the architect and designers, the Mayor, to the funders and the people of the city. Everyone can hold a vision.
You will find the rest of these two articles and much more in the magazine, not on the internets. Why is it worth it you say? Thought provoking, beautiful, ugly, something to keep. Or as eVolo says -- to study, to develop, to evolve, to fly away...
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