The world’s most ambitious green building certification program is getting a bit of push into Atlanta this month. Whether that results in construction anytime soon of an actual edifice that meets the exacting standards of the Living Building Challenge is another story. The Living Building Challenge is a certification program like no other. The U.S….
In addition to revealing that Bacchanalia chef-owner Anne Quatrano plans to open a po-boy shop at Ponce City Market, this week’s New York Times profile of the property formerly known as City Hall East offered a few other fresh details. Jamestown Properties’ Michael Phillips apparently shared plans with Robbie Brown, the Atlanta-based NYT writer, that…
Blaine Weber of the Seattle architecture firm, Weber Thompson, offers a very comprehensive — if somewhat Pacific Northwest-centric — roundup of the trends that are driving urban mixed-use development. The more vital urban centers of the United States are about to experience cultural shifts that will shake the country like a 9.0 earthquake — in…
On a warm September day in Shanghai, Richard Jones donned a hardhat, stepped over puddles and ducked scaffolding to survey the progress on a new mixed-use complex. As chief operating officer of Atlanta-based Portman Holdings, Jones oversees certain projects in China for one of the first foreign developers to work in the country after its…
Atlanta Intown reports: Five years ago, the Midtown Mile was set to be Atlanta’s answer to Chicago’s Magnificent Mile and New York’s Madison Avenue. The stretch of Peachtree Street from 15th Street to North Avenue was going to be a tree-line boulevard filled with luxury apartments, hotels, restaurants, one million square feet of retail space…
How do you make a 10-to-16 lane highway that handles 350,000 cars a day lovable? That was essentially the question facing about 75 people, me included, last night at a visioning session on the Downtown Connector. Beautifying Interstates 75 and 85 — in this case the stretch that runs from Turner Field north to the…
This month’s conviction of Raquel Nelson on a vehicular homicide charge and the death last year of her four-year-old son A.J. near a Cobb County Transit stop may have at least one silver lining: It focuses attention on the unsafe conditions faced by bus riders in parts of metro Atlanta that aren’t built for pedestrians….
My dog Peanut and I dropped by the Historic Fourth Ward Park well after Saturday’s official opening ceremony had ended. The temperature still must have been in the 90s, so there weren’t as many people as I’d expected. But the extension of the park south from the spectacular stormwater detention pond that opened last fall…
The National Park Service wants to see City Hall East retain its “imposing” facade over Ponce de Leon Avenue in exchange giving historic tax credits to the developers who want to redevelop the massive building. So reports Bisnow Atlanta’s Jarred Schenke, who’s been on top of this story: [The Park Service's] Guy Lapsley has one…
Georgia builders and architects had hoped that state-funded projects on college campuses over the next fiscal year would boost the still-ailing commercial design and construction market. But Gov. Nathan Deal dashed some of those hopes yesterday when he used his veto pen to cross out $42 million in campus projects approved by the state Legislature….
