by Charlie Szoradi | Jan 10, 2017 | Big Cities, Japan
5.2.Japan-1-Tokyo-skyline – sustainability in construction – Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: We can look to more proactively build up in cities versus out in suburbs to reduce the burden on sprawl and automobile transportation. From the roof of...
by Charlie Szoradi | Jan 9, 2017 | Big Cities, Japan
5.28.Japan-6-detail-c Hiroshima and Fukushima Highlights Relevant to the Sustainable Design: History should not repeat itself for human sustainability on earth. The sobering memorial for the Hiroshima atom bombing includes one of the only buildings that was left...
by Charlie Szoradi | Jan 6, 2017 | Austria, Big Cities
6.3.Austria-1-detail-b Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Effective public transportation with pedestrian integration increases the ease of urban motion and decreases the need for automobiles and the resulting CO2 emissions. My research in Hungary started upon...
by Charlie Szoradi | Jan 6, 2017 | Austria, Big Cities
6.4.Austria-1-detail-c Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: Visually inviting entrances to underground subway systems increase the use of the systems. This entrance to one of the many Vienna subway system stations was designed by celebrated Austro-Hungarian...
by Charlie Szoradi | Jan 6, 2017 | Big Cities, Czech Republic
6.51.Hungary-6-Horizontal-with-Figure (This drawing starts in Hungary and continues in to the Old Town Square in Prague) Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: (These are different drawings but the same written description as the post: 6.53-6.54 Old Town Square in...
by Charlie Szoradi | Jan 6, 2017 | Big Cities, Czech Republic
6.54.Czech Republic-6-detail-c Old Town Square in Prague Highlights Relevant to Sustainable Design: We can rethink city and town centers. Old Town Square is the historic square in the Old Town quarter of Prague, the capital of the Czech Republic. I spent an afternoon...
Recent Comments