Cohasset Town Hall Renovation

Cohasset MA Town Hall

Things age, buildings as well as people. This is the case with Cohasset Town Hall, which could soon be getting[Read More...]

Peddocks Island: A Study of Public Art and Community

Fort Andrews

At the end of this past summer I made a trip to Peddocks Island in the Boston Harbor. The island[Read More...]

A new challenge at Fort Point

Walk along the Atlantic - photo by flexgravityarchitecture

The new challenge for the city of Boston is named Street Seats Design Challenge. It is promoted by Boston Design[Read More...]

Cities. Like Human Bodies

Città Analoga - A. Rossi (Analogous City)

A city is not only the result of the equation that summarize an indefinite number of buildings; instead it is[Read More...]

New Park and Bridge Point To a Bright Future

North Bank Pedestrian Bridge

Boston quietly opened a new footbridge and completed a public park last month, the North Bank Pedestrian Bridge and the[Read More...]

“Trend: La Tendenza” – Italian Architecture 1965-1985

Cantafora, La città banale, 1980

Paris – In the period right after WWII, in Italy a new context of crisis opens up and leads to[Read More...]

When invisible cities become real

"Stepping Stones" - Map by Emily Garfield

Boston – “The ancients built Valdrada on the shores of a lake, with houses all verandas one above the other,[Read More...]

Chicago’s Crown Fountain vs. Buckingham Fountain

Crown Fountain

Chicago – I traveled to Chicago this week to attend a workshop put on by the American Planning Association called[Read More...]

Downtown Crossing Should Have More Lights

Times Square at Night: Even at 10:30pm, this place is jam-packed and bustling with activity. Photo by Dennis Mojado

Boston – Downtown Crossing has been in the news a lot lately. The Filene’s building recently got a developer, in[Read More...]

It’s all about geometry

roma+churchill

Boston – “… There seems to be a public image of any given city, which is the overlap of many[Read More...]