• Memphis warehouse redevelopment tops Charter Awards

    Crosstown Concourse, the redevelopment of a 1.3 million square foot former Sears distribution center that sat empty for decades among run-down Memphis neighborhoods, won the Grand Prize in CNU’s 17 th annual Charter Awards, announced in Savannah, Georgia, over the weekend. This year, the Congress...Read more

  • Alexander’s Oregon patterns: Campus design, part 2

    This is the second in a series of ten essays that present innovative techniques for designing and repairing a corporate or university campus. These tools combine New Urbanist principles with Alexandrian design methods. Even though Christopher Alexander is widely known for his “Pattern Language”, an...Read more

  • Welcoming open spaces: Campus design, part 1

    Author's note: I will present innovative techniques for designing a campus, in a series of ten essays. The most human campuses (corporate, or university) combine adaptive geometric typologies acting in partnership. This is the secret to creating great urban spaces that invite use, above and beyond...Read more

  • An innovative missing middle design

    Mews homes are an affordable and flexible model for mid-block family housing.
    Note: Missing middle housing will be a topic at many sessions in CNU 26.Savannah , May 15-19. The Mews Homes are a prime example of what architect Daniel Parolek calls “missing middle housing”—a range of multi-unit or clustered housing types, compatible in scale with detached single-family homes,...Read more