Urban Omnibus

Urban Omnibus is an online project of the Architectural League that explores, through multi-media features and online commentary, the relationship between design of all disciplines and the built environment of New York City.

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May 24
Roundup — Beaches Bounce Back, Stormproofing, Coworking, 5Pointz, and The School of Transgressive Placemaking : Rockaway Beach | Image via Oscar Rohena BEACHES BOUNCE BACK Beach season is finally upon us, and the Department of Parks and Recreation has been hard at work restoring the city’s 14 m...
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May 24
Field Trip: Camping in Floyd Bennett Field : “FLOYD BENNETT FIELD, Flatbush Avenue and Jamaica Bay, one of New York’s two municipal airports, covers a rectangular expanse of 387 acres surrounded by fens bordering Jamaica Bay…Carefully...
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May 23
June 13: Urban Omnibus Block Party 2013 : Click here to buy your tickets for a party and auction to benefit Urban Omnibus, the Architectural League’s online publication dedicated to...
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May 22
June 17 — A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America : Image: Metropolis Books From 2009-2011, Vishaan Chakrabarti authored a series of opinion pieces for Urban Omnibus casting current events as rallying cries for urban density....
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May 22
The Ricotta Index : In February, we announced our second annual writing competition, this year on the topic of cost, metrics, and measurement in urban life....
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May 17
Roundup — City Water, WTC Security Plans, SEE/CHANGE, PATH Hub, Water_Works, and Public Access Design : The Ashokan Reservoir in the Catskills, a source of NYC drinking water | Image via Angelaelle THE PAST AND FUTURE OF NYC’S WATER The infrastructure that provides one billion gallons o...
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May 15
Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts: Hunts Point, Bronx : In our third of a series of profiles of Naturally Occurring Cultural Districts (NOCDs) around the five boroughs, Joey de Jesus takes us on a tour of Hunts Point, Bronx...
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May 10
Roundup — New Libraries, New Lab, Decoding Utility Markers, NYCxDesign, Cricket, and Red, Yellow, and Blue : Bleacher seats in the West 53rd Street Branch design | © TEN Arquitectos NEW LIBRARIES In 2008, the Donnell Library Center on West 43rd Street was sold to a hotel developer and closed....
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May 8
Recap: IDEAS CITY StreetFest 2013 : Photo: Fran Parente Last Saturday, the Architectural League team spent a beautiful spring day at the IDEAS CITY StreetFest, part of the New Museum’s biennial festival exploring the future of cities ar...
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May 8
Little Metrics : In February, we announced our second annual writing competition, this year on the topic of cost, metrics, and measurement in urban life....
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May 7
Opening Sunday: tree wood at Socrates Sculpture Park : tree wood by Toshihiro Oki architect Now in its second season, Folly is a competition held by the Architectural League and Socrates Sculpture Park that invites emerging archi...
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May 3
Roundup — IDEAS CITY Edition : The 2011 StreetFest | Image via André-Pierre du Plessis IDEAS CITY STREETFEST The Omnibus team has been busy this week enjoying the many exceptional speakers, worksho...
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May 1
Typecast : Typecast is a long-term investigation by the Architectural League into architectural typologies that seeks to move beyond stereotypes of architectural form by illuminating the social...
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May 1
Portfolio: Co-op City : Co-op City, The Bronx | Photo by Amani Willett Our ongoing Portfolio series showcases bodies of work by artists inspired by or working in the city, often accompanied by a statement from the artist exp...
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May 1
Portfolio: Sea Rise and Sea Park East : Sea Rise, Coney Island, Brooklyn | Photo by David Lang Our ongoing Portfolio series showcases bodies of work by artists inspired by or working in the city, often accompanied by a statement from the ar...
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May 1
Portfolio: Todt Hill Houses : Todt Hill Houses, Emerson Hill, Staten Island | Photo by Ben Stechschulte Our ongoing Portfolio series showcases bodies of work by artists inspired by or working in the city, often accompanied by a st...
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May 1
Portfolio: Electchester : Electchester, Pomonok, Queens | Photo by Cameron Blaylock Our ongoing Portfolio series showcases bodies of work by artists inspired by or working in the city, often accompanied by a statement from the...
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May 1
Portfolio: Alfred E. Smith and Vladeck Houses : Alfred E....
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