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50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
lots of lovely space! Pumpehuset, the old waterworks in the centre of the picture, is trad Copenhagen scale
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
In August 2010, DOT opened the city's first "pop-up café"—an innovative, temporary new curbside seating platform that provides workers, residents and visitors on Pearl Street in Lower Manhattan with a needed public space to sit and enjoy a cup of coffee, a quick sandwich, or just to take in the area's busy streetscape. The 84-foot-long, 6-foot-wide wooden platform, landscaped with planters, wire railing and furnished with 14 café tables and 50 chairs, was requested and installed by two local restaurants for public use in this busy lunchtime and after-work district, where quality seating is in high demand during warmer months. While any member of the public may enjoy the seating, the platform was installed and by adjacent restaurants, which will maintain and remove it later this year at their own expense.
Unused & univiting. Yet, one of the ways pedestrians need to access Koningsallee and the city center. Time for a redo. Would make a great landscape architecture project. Would be a great location for program/events such as an additional christmas market. Should be a more important public space anchor to the Koningsallee.
Het internet is stuk, maar we kunnen het repareren en de kapotte onderdelen vervangen. In deze conferentie gingen we met professionals uit de publieke sector op zoek naar een uitweg van big tech, op weg naar alternatieve systemen voor een veilig, open en eerlijk internet.
Samen onderzochten we de vraag die onmogelijk lijkt: hoe komen we tot een publieke ruimte op het internet?
Fotografie: Leonieke Verhoog.
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
The Rill is a water feature at the More London development close to Tower Bridge. It is an oddly soul-less place which is allegedly public. Ho hum.
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
This garden in the heart of the city was designed by Daithi Hanly and dedicated to the memory of all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom. The large sculpture by Oisin Kelly is based on the theme of the "Children of Lir". The garden is intended as a place of quiet remembrance and reflection.
We Saw A Vision:
In the darkness of despair we saw a vision,
We lit the light of hope and it was not extinguished.
In the desert of discouragement we saw a vision.
We planted the tree of valour and it blossomed.
In the winter of bondage we saw a vision.
We melted the snow of lethargy and the river of resurrection flowed from it.
We sent our vision aswim like a swan on the river. The vision became a reality.
Winter became summer. Bondage became freedom and this we left to you as your inheritance.
O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
50th Street Commons public space, constructed as part of the East Side Access project, formally opened on Tuesday, September 16. The new 2,400-square-foot urban space, located at 48 East 50th Street between Park and Madison Avenues, features a rich palette of stone, glass, stainless steel and North American granite blocks designed to draw people into the space. Tables, chairs and benches can seat more than 40 people, with room for many additional visitors. Photo: MTA Capital Construction / Rehema Trimiew
I was seeking an alternate route for my walk this morning; a route that would take me away from traffic on the so-called "Greenway". As I was winding my way through residential streets I stumbled on the entry to a park I'd never visited before. It is a small park: Glenbrook Ravine Park. But, it has a lot of variety. At one end the a nicely designed and maintained garden complete with bridge, fountain, ponds and beds filled with flowers. (See the shot below) Then, as you walk north is turns into a quiet woodland path. Right now a number of different naturalized flowering plants are brightening the way. And, as a special treat, I met with the turtle enjoying a warm spot in the sun. [gratitude 79/365]
It turns out that this was the first public park in the Colony of British Columbia. You can find the history here. www.newwestpcr.ca/database/rte/files/Glenbrook%20Ravine%2...
Goffman was taught the study of nonverbal communication by anthropologist Ray Birdwhistell, who also taught my mentor and teacher Harvey Sarles. Goffman and Sarles were peers in grad school at the University of Chicago in the early 1950s.
"Although this area has not been recognized as a special domain for sociological inquiry, it perhaps should be, for rules of conduct in streets, parks, restaurants, theaters, shops, dance floors, meeting halls, and other gathering places of any community tell us a great deal about its most diffuse forms of social organization."
- Erving Goffman, Introduction to "Behavior in Public Places", 1963
Using augmented reality to create permanent invisible grafitti.
The MAFF Virtu-Wall bombers experimented with a method to let people in the Dutch city Almelo put their tags on the wall using augmented reality. Will 'augmented' virtual grafitti be the future? Will it lead to a situation in which everybody takes control of their own surrounding creatively, and not just the rebellious spraycan folks? Besides this, there are many more merits with virtual grafitti: walls can be used multiple times, no need to cross pieces by others. And it's up to anyone to see the wall including the grafitti, or without. But that might not be the feature real grafitti artist will find most attractive.
I toured the parking day parklets in downtown San Jose for San Jose Parking Day 2015. Parklets were set up on Santa Clara Street near San Pedro, and on San Fernando near 2nd and 4th.
The MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT) and the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) present Public Space? Lost & Found, a two-day symposium and accompanying exhibition to celebrate the living legacy of artist and educator Antoni Muntadas and collectively redefine ideas of public space and its multiple functions. Convening scholars, artists, architects, and planners from MIT and beyond, the symposium will engage contemporary critical discourses and practices on public space.
The symposium and exhibition investigate the definitions of public space across disciplines and the tools, tactics, and consequences of reclaiming — or to use a term coined by Muntadas, creating interventions in — public space through art and architecture. Public Art, that is art in public space, is a concept that has been in discussion and revision throughout the evolution of the terms “art” and “city” themselves. Recent movements — including those in Egypt, Madrid, New York and around the world in Occupy communities — have exposed the distance between “public” and “space” and reflect citizens’ interests in recovering and re-appropriating the city or town square. The themes of the symposium draw from Muntadas’s career at MIT and his artistic practice, a legacy that directly affects the work and philosophies of many of the invited speakers.
More information: artsm.it/TduGOC
Photo by Elisa Young
building_ Nowy Targ Square
category_ public space
architect_ Roman Rutkowski Architekci
location_ Wrocław, Poland
On an August Saturday when many are out of town on holiday I queued with others being photographed next to or on Broderick's bull at the centre of the Birmingham Bullring, to get a snap of my talismanic Brompton next to the bronze. This is not actually public space. it belongs to the developer and strictly speaking they are apparently legally entitled to move me - especially if I'm suspected of getting free brand placement. Shortly after the new Bullring was opened in September 2003 I was taking pictures there and as - politely told I shouldn't. I was incensed - gently - but he pointed to a set of images on a notice - red circles with crosses over icons of a skateboard, a cigarette, a bicycle, and - yes - a camera. I got the phone number of the management and lodged a grumble about being a citizen of Brum stopped from being a tourist in my own city etc! Since then I've never been bothered, and I'm allowed to wheel my Brompton over the whole complex, use lifts and go up and down escalators with it, even though in some other shopping malls I've been asked to fold or go. Note for aficionados: this place used t be called The Bull Ring, but the developers made a point of joining the words, so now its 'The Bullring' - and as I observed the outside of the shopping area up to a line of bollards is, even though under the skies, a private space and not a public space. I'm not sure of the full legality of this point, but it troubles me. The Bull is popular. When someone scratched it a few years back flowers were laid around the bull and some called for flogging the miscreant while others thought he ought to 'get a life'.
www.bbc.co.uk/birmingham/content/articles/2005/06/08/bull...
This garden in the heart of the city was designed by Daithi Hanly and dedicated to the memory of all those who gave their lives in the cause of Irish Freedom. The large sculpture by Oisin Kelly is based on the theme of the "Children of Lir". The garden is intended as a place of quiet remembrance and reflection.
We Saw A Vision:
In the darkness of despair we saw a vision,
We lit the light of hope and it was not extinguished.
In the desert of discouragement we saw a vision.
We planted the tree of valour and it blossomed.
In the winter of bondage we saw a vision.
We melted the snow of lethargy and the river of resurrection flowed from it.
We sent our vision aswim like a swan on the river. The vision became a reality.
Winter became summer. Bondage became freedom and this we left to you as your inheritance.
O generations of freedom remember us, the generations of the vision.