Posted by Kaid Benfield in Environmental Justice , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
As I'm sure most readers know, Brad Pitt's Make It Right Foundation has been constructing houses in New Orleans' Ninth Ward, so that residents who lost their homes to Hurricane Katrina can return. That's an undeniably noble endeavor. ...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Kirkenes, Norway, on the border with Russia in the Arctic "High North," will soon host the world's tallest wooden building. The structure is the project of the Norwegian Barents Secretariat, an agency of the country's three northernmost counties that funds...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
If the Reburbia contest sponsored by Dwell and Inhabitat was all about flights of imagination to reconceive suburbs, then FormShift Vancouver, a competition sponsored by the Architectural Institute of British Columbia and the City of Vancouver, was all about...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
Is it any wonder that neighbors continue to oppose density (oops, I meant "compact development") when this is what we have been giving them? We smart growth advocates have gotten lazy. The issue has evolved in the last decade but,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in The Media and the Environment
555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo. No deep message in this post, just entertainment with an interesting deconstructive edge. UrbanScreen has this to say about the video: "The conception of this project consistently derives from...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably
Barry Didcock, a contributor to Glasgow's Sunday Herald, seems to think it can. Me, I don't know that architecture can set my soul "free," exactly, but I believe it can indeed be soul-stirring and soul-nourishing. The question arises...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
I am going to answer the questions with a yes and another yes, and say also that I am intrigued by some people in the field who say that architectural beauty can be defined. I'm not sure I agree,...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Living Sustainably
As a longtime and very committed resident of DC, I often barely recognize the place that the media are talking about when they comment on "Washington." To listen to them, we are all about politics - not even policy, just politics...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming
A few years ago, my friend and then-transportation-guru Hank deserted those of us who had befriended him in DC and scampered off to New Mexico, where he had some property, and built an organization that became Reconnecting America. Shortly...continued→
Posted by Kaid Benfield in The Media and the Environment
My colleague Gaby Chaverria has pointed me, and now I point you, to "50 Strange Buildings of the World," brought to us by the folks at Village of Joy ("Amazing, Interesting, Wonderful, Weird, Odd and Funny things about our...continued→
