Archive for October, 2008

Praça Roosevelt – os projetos

Muitos projetos e estudos já foram feitos para a Praça Roosevelt. Este trabalho de graduação da Gláucia Maia, USP São Carlos, mostra a história e os projetos da praça. www.saplei.eesc.usp.br/tgi2007/… Projeto de transformação da praça, feito por um grupo paulistano, para a mostra UIA Istanbul 2005. www.vitruvius.com.br/institucional/inst98/inst98_08.asp Novela Praça Roosevelt. Discussão sobre as intervenções e [...]

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Praça Roosevelt – cleaning up

Since the end of last year the square with its concrete structures is awaiting demolition. As the demolition job is still stuck in legal and political processes, the secretary responsible for the area was obliged to open the space again to the public and clean the place up, until further decisions are made. After the [...]

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Cheong Gye Cheon river restoration

Documentary about the Cheong Gye Cheon river restoration project in the centre of Seoul, South Korea. The river regained its symbolic value and leisure function in Seoul´s daily life. A 380 billion Won revitalization project took over two years to demolish the concrete expressway that covered the polluted stream from the 1970´s and to depollute [...]

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Experiment city

As usual the Germans are way ahead when it comes to ecological projects and temporary use of urban voids and abandoned buildings. This website bundles a number of these projects, research and contacts in Berlin, as well as a few international examples in – what a coincidence – São Paulo: They mention the Coopamare recycling [...]

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