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IND tile color map: a unique way to visualize the nyc subway using color theory. 

by vanshnookenraggen, 13.06.2021.

afrovillage PDX MAX car parklet. pearl district, portland, oregon.

"Last year, PSU ran a design competition on ideas for our soon-to-be-retired Type 1 MAX cars. AfroVillage won the People’s Choice Award. And now they’re raising awareness and money to try and make their idea a reality.” —TriMet

800 w fulton market, west loop, chicago. 

more photos: chicagoyimby, 27.07.2021.

northgate bridge installation, seattle. 13.06.2021. 

“The Northgate Pedestrian and Bike Bridge will connect the future Northgate Link Light Rail Station and North Seattle College. The bridge will reunite two neighborhoods that have been divided by I-5 for nearly 60 years and make it easier to access new housing and medical and social service providers.” 

more info: sdot, 22.06.2021.  designed by lmn architects. 

my transbay birthday cake! 2021.

by butter&.

“these women are changing who gets to ride—one custom bike frame at a time: meet 6 independent bicycle builders who are pushing the industry to reflect everyone who loves to ride.”

read more: bicycling, 10.04.2021

emerald village in eugene, oregon: a permanently affordable tiny home co-op, established in 2018. 

the tiny homes are all designed by different architects. 

vintage BART postcard (late 70s-early 80s)

truth lutheran church. architect: eric cumine. opened in 1963.

“This is a one-of-a-kind church in Hong Kong. The organic form of the church makes the building exciting. The curvy lines are done with a maturity and mastery of skill.”

read more: “hong kong’s modern heritage, part ii”, zolimag, 27.02.19. 

“The Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Bike to Books Design Contest winners have been announced! What started in 2017 as a way to get kids into reading, riding, and their local library, has now become a fun tradition. Even with library branches closed this year, PBOT says they received over 100 designs from schoolchildren across the city.

More than just an art contest, PBOT takes the winning designs and translates them into official bike lane pavement markings, which is something the city’s striping crews have been doing since 1999. Over the years, the cast of characters has evolved from rudimentary designs to colorful pieces of art that honor things and people Portlanders love.”

read more: bikeportland, 29.10.2020. 

Jerald Cooper is founder of the creative studio Things We’ve Made, and the man behind the Instagram account HOOD CENTURY with tagline: “Yes, there is mid-century modern design in the hood!”

“I was literally walking to the top of my childhood street, and just looked at this mid-century modern dead-on, and I was like: I don’t think people know about that!”

What is it about the HOOD CENTURY account that you think is resonating most with people right now?

Jerald: I do think I opened up an aesthetic look, like a thing, like a portal: Black bodies in modern settings. And I think I opened it up in a very interesting way, because every person who experiences modern, experiences modern differently. It’s an aesthetic it rips open: The Black body being in front of it is one rip, then my friends knowing that that is mid-century is another rip.

“The other day my church was getting knocked down – it sounds like a movie. It was a matriarchal place and I still get emotional about it. It was the place that we came in the ’20s and ’30s from Georgia – from sharecropping essentially – and it was the beacon; they went there like four or five times a week, they could go there to eat if they didn’t have anything at home. And it’s getting torn down for a soccer stadium. It’s a great fucking amazing spot for a soccer stadium, I’m not going to front. But they didn’t have the representation to properly negotiate an exit deal. To properly preserve the stuff. None of our stuff is digitized. The building should have been a historical preservation site – it was actually built in the mid-1800s – but I heard that the preservation society came by and said [no] since there was a modern addition to the church. I’m tired of that shit, you know? We’ve been getting bullied too much. 

I want people to go outside in their neighborhood and look at shit that they have no business looking at. Go out and be nosy about your neighborhood. I’m like, ‘Ma, have you been down this street?’ She’s like, ‘No.’ I’m like, ‘You’ve lived here 40 years and you haven’t been down this street?!’ Curiosity has been killed in the inner city because of the violence. Our mothers would say, ‘Don’t be curious, don’t go around that corner, it’s not safe.’ And I didn’t understand that until I went everywhere, but could you imagine? Curiosity is the thing that all brilliant people have, and we are asking our kids not to be curious? That is so bad.”

read more: designmilk, 19.10.2020. 

the new weizman street, kfar-saba, israel.

design and rendering by kot architects. 

shibuya, tokyo.

bike rack with tabletop surface at south park, san francisco.

2017 renovation by david fletcher studio.

via sfchronicle, 25.03.17.

lego BART set, designed by sergio aldana.

it needs 10,000 votes by the end of 2020 to bring it to market. please support! 

via sfgate, 20.12.19. 

1645 Pacific Ave: faux history and genuine conviction.

“It’s heartfelt rather than kitschy, we need more of this—new buildings that show real affection for the city around them.”

Bill Sorro Community (1009 Howard St): low-income housing that raises the bar.

San Francisco also needs more affordable housing, at all scales and in every neighborhood. What does get built, fortunately, often uplifts its surroundings as well as the lives of its residents.

South Park: a cozy oval in the middle of it all.

South Park stands out for the deft reinvention of a beloved but bedraggled oval. Simply done with sturdy plantings along a generous path, it reframes a historic setting now lined by everything from hedge funds to low-income housing. And with wheelchair-friendly pullouts included, it’s inviting to all.

read more: john king, sfchronicle, 17.12.19. 

hidden grandeur in chicago's south side. 

photos by lee bey, in his book southern exposure.