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May 26, 2005
Kids, Gas, and Coney Island
"No combination of alternative fuels is going to allow us to run the U.S. the way we're running it or even a substantial fraction of it. We will see the use of some alternatives, but on a very local basis. We're not going to be running biodiesel in Wal-Mart's warehouses on wheels." Inverview with James Kunstler
"Retail sales in China have jumped nearly 50 percent in the last four years..." China, New Land of Shoppers, Builds Malls on Gigantic Scale.
"And I ask, you know, why as a society would we want to subsidize McMansions and provide incentives for people to build bigger and bigger houses, second homes, large lots, if we know that we have an energy problem and we have a housing problem?" Interview with Dolores Hayden
"San Francisco has the smallest share of small-fry of any major U.S. city. Just 14.5 percent of the city's population is 18 and under..."We are at a crossroads here," said N'Tanya Lee, executive director of the nonprofit Coleman Advocates for Children and Youth. "We are moving toward a place where we could have an infrastructure of children's services and no children." Child Population Dwindles in San Francisco
Goldberger, Why We Should Build Apartments at Ground Zero.
The Van Alen sponsered Parachute Pavilion design competition winners were announced today. View all eight hundred some odd entries here. The winning entry is pictured below. Its difficult to get the whole program from these photos, but I really do like this bit of boardwalk showiness: "a pavilion with a matrix of light bulbs rising 30 feet from the ground"... and who doesn't love that well placed sky light and the most appropriate pink skin job, but I have to say, I wanted more. I expected more elements and cues from the whole Coney Island/Amusement Park/Boardwalk bit, in addition to the well chosen skylight, light bulbs, and pink skin job... little to Miesy for me. Suspended box with three cues? Oh no, I mean this IS Coney Island. Americas first amusement park. I guess thats what you get when you let a London based firm win. Oh, I'm just being a grump. Congrats to all.
Posted by jmarston at May 26, 2005 05:44 AM
Comments
I think the 3rd place entry is the best of the top 3 by far. The whole building IS a boardwalk. I like it because it tries less to be an artifact than expressing the boardwalk as a potential for becoming...
Posted by: Simon at October 1, 2005 11:39 AM