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Public Space is a place for community as well as a topic for discourse between designers and patrons. This duality may be seen in our most recent entrance wall installation, a parametric sculpture inspired by conceptual harmonies between two- and three-dimensional media and reflecting the tension between an evolving community and a static installation in… Read more »

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Cities today are mostly car-centric landscapes.  Sidewalks place pedestrians directly beside exhaust-spewing vehicles with little to no buffer.  High-speed thoroughfares or highways often dissect neighborhoods and lack appropriate pedestrian or bicycle infrastructure.  These conditions are seen in cities around the globe; however, some cities are finding opportunities to reintroduce car-free zones that give the streets… Read more »

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What does it take to create a new link within an existing community? For our Houston designers, they have been hard at work for more than the past decade in creating a city-wide green system of Bayous and pedestrian trails for environmental—as well as social—good. And now, the famed Buffalo Bayou is getting another pedestrian… Read more »

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Beijing Finance Street, a project with the landscape as a central spine in an 18-block real-estate and mixed-use development. Photography by Tom Fox.   What is the future of the corporate campus? As designers work with the next generation of real estate leaders, I had a chance to write about the changes happening in the… Read more »

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Designing in the public interest is often challenging–and controversial. How do you know when to do public interest work and when pro-bono efforts are going towards greater good? In our office with the recent launch of our pro-bono Social Impact Design Initiative and partnership with the 1% Program at Public Architecture, we continue to learn from our work… Read more »

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Long after the media stops talking about the damage done from hurricanes like Sandy, Ike, and Katrina, in each of our communities, we are left with the task of rebuilding our coastlines and cities to be more resilient to the wipe outs that take years to recover from. Today, after eight years, have we forgotten… Read more »

Sarah Peck

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