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Thursday, August 6th, 2009
If you enjoyed our coverage of New York City’s High Line raised park, we think Telok Blangah Hill Park’s dizzying infrastructure will “elevate” you to an ever higher level. Located in Singapore, the park’s fly-over style “walkways” are reminiscent of those ancient rope bridges you see suspended over caverns in movies, giving you the very rare experience of viewing towering treetops from a monkey’s perspective. The pathways and suspension bridges are anything but rickety though. In fact, many of them are elegant works of art and architectural precision. But at 120 feet above the forest floor at their highest points, they aren’t for the faint of heart!
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Patyka's Organic Lime Scrub and Shower Gels in Orange & Mint. Credit: Patyka
Patyka's Organic
Shower gel is a good fit for recessionistas in need of organic-luxury skincare love. While encouraging consumption is risky, these shower gels and scrubs can go a long way. The entire Patyka family line is available for under $19, a far cry from their $98 perfume, and includes a full set of
fragrance-free face washes, shea but...
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Tags: Amp, beauty lab, Consumption, Face Washes, Far Cry, Fashion & Beauty, Fragrance, Free Face, Lime, Love, new york city, Orange Mint, Patyka, Perfume, Scrub, Scrubs, Shea, Shower Gels, Skincare
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Sunday, August 2nd, 2009
Greenhouse Design Atop The Manhattan School for Children PS 333. Credit: The Greenhouse Project
The Greenhouse Project is the vision of NYC parents and educators to create environmental science laboratories on the vacant rooftops of NYC's public schools.
The Manhattan School for Children (PS 333) in New York City's Upper West Side, has approval from the
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Tags: Design & Architecture, Education, Environmental Science, Food & Health, Greenhouse Design, Greenhouse Project, Manhattan School, new york city, Nyc Schools, Parents, Rooftop Greenhouse, Rooftops, Sch, Science & Technology, Science Laboratories, solar, solar power, Upper West Side, water
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
This past spring, New York City’s Architecture for Humanity chapter (AFHny) partnered with Parsons School of Continuing Education in the spirit of volunteerism to offer a design studio for high school students. Under the tutelage of Parsons teacher, Nick Brinen, and several AFHny volunteers, the students developed concepts for two park shelters located at the entrances of the soon-to-be-reopened High Bridge. Having gained real-world experience and an appreciation for public service, we weren’t surprised to hear that several of the participating students earned scholarships for various design majors at Parsons, FIT, and Pratt. Read on to learn more about their designs!
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Post tags: Architecture for Humanity, community engagement, community service, design mentorship, high bridge manhattan bronx, open space design, park design, parsons, public space, student mentorship, voluteerism
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Saturday, August 1st, 2009
On Monday, July 13, 2009, Diana Balmori and her NYC-based landscape and urban design firm hosted a forum that was part-academic discussion, part-social media experiment. The forum, called Making Public Places, was hosted in the Meatpacking District (MPD) while it streamed live online via Twitter and tinychat. The design firm was joined by 40 landscape architecture and urban design students from the Netherlands. Photos and tweets were updated throughout the event and yours truly was there to see it in action and provide you with highlights. But for more in-depth information, you can check out Balmori Associates‘ recently launched blog focused on public places.
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Friday, July 31st, 2009
Melting ice: it’s the metaphor of our age. Here on Inhabitat, we’ve seen melting penguins, melting furniture, and melting little men. In case you missed theses visuals of climate change, in case those images of ice holes from An Inconvenient Truth are fading from memory, in case you’re bored on August 1st around 11 am, Chin Chih Yang has a not-so-gentle reminder for you. He’s bringing 21,000 lbs of ice to Union Square in New York City. As it melts, it will be raising flashing red hell with emergency lights triggered by the melting, protesting its own demise.
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
Whenever it seems like there's a surplus of doom and gloom running through the headlines, you hear about a story like this: at-risk teenagers staying in
Covenant House, a homeless shelter in New York City, have set about cultivating
green roofs on skyscrapers around the city. Their goal is to create a citywide "skyscraper garden" across Manhattan.
The teens recently completed the first stage of the project, done in collaboration with Seeding the City--planting a green roof on the ninth story of a buildin...
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Tags: Business & Politics, Collaboration, Covenant House, Doom And Gloom, Garden City, Green Building, green roofs, Headlines, Homeless Shelter, Homeless Teens, Manhattan, new york, new york city, Risk Teenagers, Skyscraper, Skyscrapers
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
As August rapidly approaches, summer is heating up! New Yorkers have found a unique way to cool off. The New York Times explains:
On a rented lot that’s hidden from the street they have erected what they call a lo-fi urban country club: three connected pools housed in Dumpsters; a boccie court; some lounge chairs, grills and cabanas…The idea, said David Belt, a real estate developer and the president of Macro-Sea, the company behind the pools, was not to create an exclusive party destination but to experiment with underused space and materials, repurposing them with urban renewal in mind.
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Tags: Cabanas, Dumpsters, Fi, Grills, Lounge Chairs, new york, new york city, New York Times, New Yorkers, Party Destination, Real Estate Developer, Swimming Pools, Urban Country, Urban Renewal
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Thursday, July 30th, 2009
A professor and student team have designed a network of modular floating docks to harness clean energy for New York City.
The eco-docks would generate the energy by harnessing tidal power from the city’s rivers; they should also help to add much needed green space above the dirty waters.
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Tags: alternative energy, Clean Energy, Dirty Waters, Floating Docks, Nasty, new york city, Rivers, technology, Tidal Power, wave energy
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Wednesday, July 29th, 2009
Usually people are hunting for the sticker on café windows that shows they offer free wifi. But New York City residents will be searching for another sticker - the TapIt sticker, indicating this is a spot you're welcome to pop in and refill your water bottle. ...
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Tags: Bottled Water, City Residents, drinking water, Free Wifi, new york city, People, Science & Technology, Sustainable Water, Water Bottle, water crisis
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