The entry by Merten Nefs and Vanessa Grossman was included in the publication of the international ideas competition for a new architecture faculty in Delft. The project ‘Educational Landscape’ can be found on page 11 of the book, published by the Delft University of Technology – Faculty of Architecture, which has been sent to all [...]
The Manhattan Airport Foundation (TMAF) was founded to improve the access to air travel for the inhabitants of central New York. Today one passes several hours in traffic jams before reaching one of the distant airports (JFK, Newark and LaGuardia). Why wouldn´t Manhattan, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, deserve a [...]
The Detroit Unreal Estate Agency is an organization that monitors the public plans, personal and artistic initiatives and other events in the derelict area of central Detroit. It has American and Dutch integrants and sponsoring. It features many rundown buildings and vacant lots, role model neighborhoods of modernist planning, urban poetry and ‘un’real estate offered [...]
In the industrial and technological city of São José dos Campos, State of São Paulo, Brazil, there is a neighborhood called Jardim Nova Detroit. Like the ‘old’ Detroit, Nova Detroit is inhabited by industrial workers of the General Motors plant nextdoor. The difference is, even with the late automobile crisis, that ‘old’ Detroit has been [...]
After more than five years in Brazil, I have recently moved back to the Netherlands. For the moment I´m living in Rotterdam. The Projetos Urbanos website and email will continue to function normally. Port of Rotterdam North-South connection of Rotterdam over the river Maas New mixed use developments on the south bank
