Boulder, Colorado Design Development Resources
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Outdoor Space, Public Space, Trade Issues on Sep 29th, 2007
Boulder — long a destination for rock climbers and mountaineers — was host to another form of vertical ascent this weekend: tree climbing. I visited City Park on Friday to see some of the preliminary events of the ISA (The
International Society of Arboriculture) Tree Climbing Championship, and as someone who has never witnessed […]
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Development, Public Space on Sep 28th, 2007
Before exhibiting my blatant excitement about this iniative as a conceptual resource for all cities, including of course, ahem, Boulder, let’s start by looking at
what PIE is. In their own words,
PIE is an initiative of the New York Chapter of the American Institute of Architects, and is designed to create an archive of NYC […]
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Building Materials, Green Issues on Sep 27th, 2007
The 12th annual Tour of Solar and Green Built Homes takes place this weekend as part of the nonprofit Center for ReSource Conservation’s Solar Week. The tour features 13 Boulder County homes and will showcase a variety of resource conservation technologies. The tour begins at 9am on Sunday, September 30th. Homes will be open from […]
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Community Think, Design, Development on Sep 26th, 2007
We’re excited to announce a series of informal dinners to discuss design and development in Boulder. We’ll be hosting the first dinner at
The Kitchen on Friday, September 28th at 5:30 pm.
There are a limited number of seats available, so if you’re interested in joining us for an evening of intriguing discussion and great […]
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Building Materials, Development on Sep 26th, 2007
The old 4th Street laundry mat was a true west end landmark. For those of us who used it in it’s heyday, it’s memory serves as a reminder for just how long we’ve been here. I can remember regularly squeezing in loads there, probably 8 or so years ago now, when Boulder’s other laundry […]
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Commercial Space, Culture, Graphic Design, Public Space on Sep 25th, 2007
After a
recent post on Boulderspace regarding this idea, I began speaking with various City of Boulder staff members about the possibility of sponsoring a bike rack design competition. Pending City of Boulder approval, Boulderspace is excited to announce a citywide competition to design a unique bicycle rack for installation atop the recently-beheaded parking meter […]
Posted in Boulder & Environs, Development, Public Space on Sep 24th, 2007
New
parking kiosks have made their way onto the streets of Boulder, which got me thinking about alternatives for people in Boulder to pay for parking, rather than carrying a pocketful of change or charging their parking toll to their credit card. I personally enjoyed the old prepaid meter keys, which offered motorists a quick […]
Posted in Building Materials, Commercial Space, Culture, Healthy Living, Public Space on Sep 24th, 2007
This quote, by Howard Brandston, an architectural lighting consultant, is intuitive and straightforward. Yet it’s also provocative in its simplicity, when applied to Brandston’s field of lighting. By posing this simple question, Brandston suggests that lighting should be intentional, well-thought out, and composed within an architectural space, whether interior or exterior. Since 1966, his firm […]