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"Urban
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Christmas
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| Dedicated
to all those who live and love the Traditional City. The Traditional City of the Past, the Traditional City of the Present, and, expecially, the Traditional City of the Future. Dedicated to all those who love strolling through the network of streets and plazas that make the Traditional City a unique place to experience. Dedicated to all those who love having a drink or a cappuccino in a café within an urban context. To all those who love going to the theatre or to the cinema by walk, and then having dinner with friends in a nearby restaurant. Dedicated to all those who prefer living in a townhouse or in an urban condominium, both enjoying the richness of the public street and the calm of the inner courtyard. Dedicated to all those who prefer taking their kids to school at a walking distance. To all those who choose urban shops, markets or supermarkets. Dedicated to all those who prefer to work at a walking distance from home, and to all those who would like to do so! URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER is intended to offer information about events, projects, competitions, books, and exhibition regarding the urban world. URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER will help spreading the urban culture by enlightning the positive experiences that reinforce the status of the Traditional City as the most attractive and efficient form of settlement. URBANLOVERS NEWSLETTER will try to involve citizens, developers, public officials and administrators, as well as architects, townplanners, engineers, and all the actors in the urban set in a new effort to share information and succesful experiences that contribute to the construction of a better urban environment. |
THE PROJECT OF THE MONTH | |
 www.adamarchitecture.com | |
William Wake HouseSt Andrew’s Healthcare,
Northamptonshire | |
WILLIAM WAKE HOUSELARGEST NEW CLASSICAL BUILDING IN BRITAIN
A dramatic new classical building has been added to the Northampton skyline. Commissioned by St Andrew’s Healthcare, the 20,000 plus square metre hospital unit is probably the largest single building in the classical style to be built for 50 years. The new residential, mental-health facility was designed by well-known classical architect Robert Adam of ADAM Architecture working closely with health-building experts, Oxford Architects. | |
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new residential, mental-health facility was designed by well-known classical architect
Robert Adam of ADAM Architecture
working closely with health-building experts, Oxford Architects.This is the first
phase of the Cliftonville site development providing a modern purpose-built healthcare
building based on the existing hospital campus. It has been designed with courtyards
and internal spaces, and provides facilities which aid treatment and rehabilitation
while offering an appropriate level of safety and security within the building
design. Robert Adam, director at ADAM Architecture designed the outer form and
façade of the building in keeping with the original hospital buildings,
designed by George Wallet in 1835. Adam coordinated his architectural designs
within the over-all planning, functional and technical work of Oxford Architects.
source: www.traditionalarchitecture.co.uk | |
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THE POSTCARD OF THE MONTH |
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Winter holidays remind us how special public spaces can be...
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GOOD NEWS OF THE MONTH | |
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Historic Restoration of D.A. Blodgett Home for Children | |
| The photos depict the recent restoration of the D.A. Blodgett Home for Children (originally an orphanage), built in 1908 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. In the 1950s a terrible addition was put on the front of the building, ruining the portico and the courtyard. The building was later abandoned - vacant and vandalized. Recently it was purchased and given a historic restoration by the Inner City Christian Federation, a local non-profit housing organization. It now serves as the eadquarters of that organization. |
Credit: Lee Hardy | |
THE DEMOLITION OF THE MONTH |
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24th
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THE MONSTER OF THE MONTH |
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Strata Building, London |
THE SHOPWINDOW OF THE MONTH | ||
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Noël Éternel461, rue Saint-Sulpice | ||
THE URBAN STADIUM
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PROGRESSIVE FIELDhome of the Cleveland Indiansopened: April 4, 1994 Location: 2401 Ontario Street, Cleveland, Ohio Construction cost $175 million Architect: HOK Sport Capacity 43,545 | |
Winter, Progressive Ballpark |
Old Cleveland Base Ball Park, 1911 |
| Keeping
Stadium Neighborhoods Alive in the Off-Season (source: http://www.theatlanticcities.com) | Cleveland is getting ready to spend the first nearly 400-thousand dollars on the renovation of historic League Park. (source: http://blog.cleveland.com) |
MASTERPIECES | |
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BANCO DE BOSTONFlorida 99, Buenos Aires, Argentrina | |
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| BANCO DE BOSTON |
Project by: arch. Paul B. Chambers e Louis N. Thomas (1921) More
info available at:
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THE EXHIBITION OF THE MONTH | |
Architectural
Paintings From the Renaissance | |
| Thyssen
Bornemisza Museum
Architectural Paintings From the Renaissance
Throughout the history of painting the depiction of architecture has been a tool which has provided the viewer with details and keys to interpreting compositions. Beginning chiefly in the Renaissance, architectural settings steered a new course imbued with knowledge and theories and vindicated the status of the artist, subsequently becoming an instrument of propaganda and power in the hands of the clients who commissioned them and later on, in the eighteenth century, a new genre in which the city was the sole subject. Architectural
paintings. From the Renaissance to Eighteenth Century is divided into two sections.
At the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza visitors will be able to view works executed from
the Renaissance to the seventeenth century, whereas the eighteenth century is
explored in depth at Fundación Caja Madrid.
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THE BOOK OF THE MONTH | |
CITIES FOR PEOPLEJan Gehl | |
Cities for peopleFor more than forty years Jan Gehl has helped to transform urban environments around the world based on his research into the ways people actually use—or could use—the spaces where they live and work. this revolutionary book, Gehl presents his latest work creating (or recreating) cityscapes on a human scale. He clearly explains the methods and tools he uses to reconfigure unworkable cityscapes into the landscapes he believes they should be: cities for people.
Taking into account changing demographics and changing lifestyles, Gehl emphasizes four human issues that he sees as essential to successful city planning. He explains how to develop cities that are Lively, Safe, Sustainable, and Healthy. Focusing on these issues leads Gehl to think of even the largest city on a very small scale. For Gehl, the urban landscape must be considered through the five human senses and experienced at the speed of walking rather than at the speed of riding in a car or bus or train. This small-scale view, he argues, is too frequently neglected in contemporary projects. | |
Jan
Gehl (Author) Publication Date: September 6, 2010 | | |
THE MOVIE OF THE MONTH | |
AVENUE MONTAIGNE(FAUTEUILS D'ORCHESTRE)Director:
Danièle Thompson Release date: 2006
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| Avenue MontaigneProduction Co.: Thelma Films (France), TF1 Films Productions, Ciné+, La Region Ile de France, Canal Plus, Radis Films Production A young woman arrives in Paris where she finds a job as a waitress in bar next on Avenue Montaigne that caters to the surrounding theaters and the wealthy inhabitants of the area. She will meet a pianist, a famous actress and a great art collector, and become acquainted with the "luxurious" world her grandmother has told her about since her childhood. |
THE CONFERENCE OF THE MONTH | |
ULI
Europe Annual Conference Paris 2012: | |
| ULI Europe Annual Conference Paris 2012 ULI Europe Annual
Conference, now in its 16th year, attracts 600 influential decision makers representing
an estimated €600 billion of real estate influence. Attendees from a broad cross-section of disciplines, including property developers and owners, fund managers, financiers and senior public officials, convene at the event to debate and explore how the real estate industry faces up to the current economic, political, and business trends. Reflecting back on last year, progress has been made by many businesses since the credit crunch, and at an operational level most have now adjusted to the new environment. The macro level remains worrying and the conference theme “the only problems left are the big ones” says it all. Getting things done in a difficult climate will be what ULI Europe will be helping delegates learn from the day.
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