RusSki Gorki – Jumping Center The “RusSki Gorki” Jumping Center is located in Esto-Sadok village on the northern slope of the Aibga Ridge. The facility’s location at the junction of two ridges was selected by international experts in order to make ski-jumping facilities harmonious with the surrounding landscape and to protect athletes from side winds. … Continued
Ice Cube – Curling Center The “Ice Cube” Curling Center is located in the Coastal Cluster, within the grounds of the Olympic Park. The “Ice Cube” Curling Center is simplistic in its design, which symbolizes democracy, and accessibility alongside the festivity, which is characteristic of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. The “Ice Cube” Curling Center … Continued
Let the games begin! It’s time for the 2014 Winter Olympic is Sochi, Russia. We had such a good response to our architectural round up of the 2012 London Olympic venues, so we are doing another series of posts for the venues in Russia. 11 newly built areas were built for the Olympic events and … Continued
Ellen Dunham-Jones fires the starting shot for the next 50 years’ big sustainable design project: retrofitting suburbia. To come: Dying malls rehabilitated, dead “big box” stores re-inhabited, parking lots transformed into thriving wetlands. (Filmed at TEDxAtlanta.) Ellen Dunham-Jones takes an unblinking look at our underperforming suburbs — and proposes plans for making them livable and … Continued
How do we solve the problem of the suburbs? Urbanist Jeff Speck shows how we can free ourselves from dependence on the car — which he calls “a gas-belching, time-wasting, life-threatening prosthetic device” — by making our cities more walkable and more pleasant for more people. Jeff Speck is a city planner and the author … Continued
