Daily insights for city builders, delivered every morning at 6 AM ET. I’m Brandon Donnelly — a Toronto-based real estate developer and founder of Globizen. I’ve been writing here since 2013.

Galleries

  • nevver:

    I’ll take Manhattan

    New Amsterdam

  • Market Street – April 2013

  • razorshapes:

    Kevin Bauman100 Abandoned Houses

    Artist’s statement:

    “100 seemed like a lot, although the number of abandoned houses in Detroit is more like 12,000. Encompassing an area of over 138 square miles, Detroit has enough room to hold the land mass of San Francisco, Boston, and Manhattan Island, yet the population has fallen from close to 2 million citizens, to most likely less than 800,000. With such a dramatic decline, the abandoned house problem is not likely to go away any time soon.”

  • n-architektur:

    Wohnhaus mit Atrium, Trier

    denzer & poensgen

  • subtilitas:

    EM2N – Restoration of the viaduct arches, Zurich 2010. A great urban renewal project that breathes new life to a previously derelict infrastructural barrier. Photos (C) Roger Frei.

  • thedsgnblog:

    Windows of New York   |    http://windowsofnewyork.com

    “The Windows of New York project is a weekly illustrated fix for an obsession that has increasingly grown in me since chance put me in this town. A product of countless steps of journey through the city streets, this is a collection of windows that somehow have caught my restless eye out from the never-ending buzz of the city. This project is part an ode to architecture and part a self-challenge to never stop looking up.”

    José Guizar is a Mexican graphic designer in New York City. Driven by curiosity and a constant desire to learn and evolve –among other more material things, of course–, I’m a devoted pursuer of the well-rounded designer utopia. I strive to create playful, clever, yet strong messages that let others communicate, and let me play entertainer.

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    Windows of NYC

  • burgerlords:

    anyone know who made these?

    Cyprien Bellens

  • enochliew:

    House W by 01Arq

    Elegant detail where the sliding doors extend to the roof line beyond the ceiling, resulting in a minimal box without the appearance of a bulky top.

  • urban-mouse:

    NON PROGRAM PAVILION / Jesús Torres García Architects