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Vibrant Cities • Issue 008
Awakening Cities
Once known simply as “The Wall,” the Green Monster is Fenway Park’s legendary left field wall: one so tall, it’s wildly difficult to hit a ball over. Imagine you’re near Fenway Park, Lansdowne Street on a summer night. As you approach the gigantic steel structure that supports the Green Monster, you hear a rhythm emanating from its bays. Not from a concert within the stadium, but from the actual wall. Then, you see that wall light up, and realize there are people in those bays, drumming on the beams like they’re instruments.
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Vibrant Cities, Data Visualization • Issue 006
Compact Urban Living
Living in Boston is great, if you can afford it. A new design methodology for housing might hold the key to both affordability and livability.
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Vibrant Cities • Issue 004
Architecture in Revolution
Why Cuba? After watching the documentary Unfinished Spaces, I fell in love with the idea of visiting Cuba. The film chronicles an arts-focused campus that Fidel Castro commissioned soon after his socialist regime gained control of the island, and then the campus’ ultimate demise. The documentary artfully weaves the design and construction of the art schools with the political climate of Fidel’s regime. The film was an inspiring starting point for my research.
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Play • Issue 001
Where Design Meets Play
“It’s a place that seems a bit wild and a little risky, a place where the unexpected can happen.”
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Workplace Innovation • Issue 015
Lessons Learned from Quarantine
As interior designers, we design places where people want to live, work, and play. However, the COVID-19 crisis and the need for social distancing has led us to question—what happens when work, life, and play all collide in the same space?
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Sustainability • Issue 014
Redesigning Recycling
Perhaps you’ve seen the waves of plastic strangling our oceans or even spotted an overflowing trash bin in your neighborhood, spewing out single-use items.
