• Iconic warehouse becomes Beltline hub

    Ponce City Market in Atlanta unites four neighborhoods and brings high-tech businesses back to the city.
    Located in a crossroads of Atlanta, where the celebrated Beltline crosses Ponce de Leon Avenue, a former Sears warehouse has turned into one of the most striking urban redevelopments in the nation. Today, Ponce City Market is a new hub for high-tech industry growth in the city—and the retail center...Read more

  • Connecting a mountain town to the river

    Outside Buena Vista, Colorado, on the site of a former garbage dump, 40 acres of riverfront land sat vacant for years. It took two nature-loving developers—risktakers with a background as competitive kayakers—to see what it could become.
    Outside Buena Vista, Colorado, on the site of a former garbage dump, 40 acres of riverfront land sat vacant for years. It took two nature-loving developers—risktakers with a background as competitive kayakers—to see what it could become. Following a public design charrette run by Dover, Kohl &...Read more

  • The missing middle response to urban housing demand

    The mismatch between current US housing stock and shifting demographics, combined with the growing demand for walkable urban living, has been poignantly defined by recent research and publications by the likes of Christopher Nelson and Chris Leinberger and the Urban Land Institute’s publication,...Read more

  • The architect’s new clothes

    Avant-gardist catch phrases ring hollow. Designers can move beyond rhetorical red herrings to create good places for people.
    Architecture that learns from earlier styles is sometimes criticized by modernists as “nostalgic.” This label and other catch phrases get in the way of developing architecture that responds to the real needs of our time. For example, New Urbanists have designed neighborhoods laid out like the old...Read more