Energy Mapping

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A Mind-Blowing Map Of Energy Consumption In Every Single NYC Building

How much power does any piece of a city block use? There’s no way to tell. A building’s facade, unless it’s covered with lights, isn’t exactly screaming its annual energy expenditures.

A new map by the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University gives us a picture of energy consumption in the five boroughs of New York, on a block-by-block basis. -- Fast Co

Renewable Energy Map

Every state in America can produce its own energy from clean, renewable sources, keeping millions of energy dollars in-state, reducing pollution, and creating new jobs and new sources of income. Find out which renewable energy sources your state can tap into. -- NRDC(Natural Resources Defense Council)

Where US energy is produces

An interactive map showing where the US energy is produced. You can select an energy sector from the drop-down menu for a state-by-state view of production figures from 2010; map of states with "fracking" as of May 2011. -- NBC News

US Energy Expenditure Map

Energy Expenditure Map shows energy expenditure per person of each state from 1970 to 2012. It also shows number breakdown of transportation and residential.-- US Department of Energy

USDA Energy Investment Map

The Energy Investments Map is an interactive map to help users understand where USDA is providing investment support for renewable and sustainable energy initiatives across the United States. New investment data have been posted along with a few new features. -- USDA Energy Investment Map

U.S. Energy Mapping System

A new tool from the U.S. Energy Information Administration shows how fossil fuels infrastructure crosses every part of the country. It also shows existing and potential for renewable energy. With all the debate around the proposed new natural gas pipeline in Massachusetts, this tool can help us better understand our energy infrastructure and its implications . You can start with the entire country, and then zoom into Massachusetts to see how we compare against other states. -- Greenovate Boston

Go to the map at U.S. Energy Information Administration

Zoning

Source: citylab.com

The Birth of Zoning Codes, a History

The story of American zoning is really the story of how Americans learned to legislate their NIMBY impulses. Before zoning, cities mostly regulated what could be built through nuisance laws. If someone didn't like how their neighbor was using their property, they could haul them to trial and let a judge decide what to do about it.

There were early efforts to temper New York's building streak. A landmark 1885 law restricted tenement buildings to one-and-a-half times the street width (the Supreme Court ruled that height restrictions were legal in 1909, when builders challenged Boston's decision to restrict buildings around Copley Square to 90 feet). -- The Atlantic CITYLAB

Zoning Best Pratices Report for Washington DC Office of Planning

Washington D.C. has initiated an update of the City’s zoning regulations – there is a need to review and revise the existing zoning regulations after almost 50 years of text and map amendments. The office of Planning has increased staffing, as much of the update will be completed in-house, and has convened an appointed Zoning Review Taskforce to help guide and inform the zoning update.

At the request of the office of Planning, HNTB has conducted best practice research and ANALYSIS in support of the update process. This final report summarizes the research findings on zoning innovations and procedural approaches of select cities that have updated their zoning regulations. Click to see the report Zoning Best Pratices, June 2008

Source: aia.org

Miami 21: A new Zoning Code for the City

Miami 21: A New Zoning Code for the City, Miami, Florida, USA by Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co. won a 2014 AIA Honor Award - Regional & Urban Design

Miami21 is a new form-based zoning code for a growing coastal city at the heart of a metropolitan region. The purpose of the effort was to direct the city toward transit-oriented, pedestrian-friendly growth, and away from disjointed, car-centered development. -- AIA

Zoning Viewers

ZoLa provides a simple way to research zoning regulations in New York City. -- ZoLa New York City

Boston Redevelopment Authority Zoning Viewer -- City of Boston

Seattle's zoning viewer. -- Seattle Department of Planning and Development

Austin's Zoning Profile Report. -- City of Austin, Texas

Scottsdale's zoning viewer. -- City of Scattsdale, Arizona

Building Height Maps

Source: Google Maps Mania

San Francisco Building Height Map

At first glance this map of San Francisco building height might look like it couldn't teach you anything new. After all it isn't as if those tall buildings in the Financial District are trying to hide. However it is a pretty looking map, with each building footprint colored to show the height of the building. If you do want to learn something new you can mouse-over individual building plots on the SF Building Height map to discover the height of a building. -- Google Maps Mania

Source: radicalcartography.net

BUILDING HEIGHTS by Bill Rankin at Radical Cartography, 2006

Click here for original file.

Skin of Architecture: Map

Source: Andrés Valbuena archdaily.com

Click Clack Hotel, Bogotá, Bogota, Colombia, 2012 designed by Plan B Arquitectos

This hotel is an attempt to open or permeate the norm: it is slim and has four open facades due to side setbacks; the larger facades are set back to allow a double skin of metal and glass, and the main facade articulates urban life and cantilevers the 1.5 m allowed by the building code. -- ArchDaily

Source: Harry Cock archdaily.com

Train Station and City Hall complex, Delft, The Netherlands, 2014 designed by Mecanoo

Within the new station hall an undulating ‘vault’, which has been designed to evoke an “unforgettable arrival experience”, features a scaled 1877 map of the Dutch city rendered in blue and white. -- ArchDaily

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Samaranch Memorial Museum, Tianjin, China, 2011 designed by Archiland

The Samaranch Memorial Museum is in its design a result of the use of the 5 Olympic rings: 2 converted into an infinity shaped looping ramp illustrating the nature of one mans life and further 3 to become sunken courtyards. -- ArchDaily

Source: Cristiano Bianchi archdaily.com

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Yanqing Grape Expo, Yanqing, Beijing, China, 2011 designed by Archea Associati

....the international wine exhibition is part of a broader program of initiatives sponsored by the Chinese government for the 11th International Conference on Grapevine Breeding and Genetics....

This is a major recognition for Italian design and architecture. The Chinese government built the project with great skill and speed given the exceptional scope and importance of the works built. Pavilions have been deisgned as circles as a metaphor for grape bunches spread over the landscape. -- ArchDaily

Source: Roland Halbe archdaily.com

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ESO Headquarters Extension, Garching, Germany, 2013 designed by Auer Weber

The extension was designed to complement the original building (Architects: Fehling+Gogel). The office building, implementing a similar curved shape, boasting two inner courtyards, makes extensive use of natural light sources. The technical building is a cylinder construction with a diameter the size of the 39-metre primary mirror of the E-ELT. -- ArchDaily

Miniatures

Source: Matthew Simmonds archdaily.com

Miniature Spaces Carved From Stone

Matthew Simmonds, an art historian and architectural stone carver based in Italy, has created a collection of exceptionally beautiful miniature spaces carved from stone. -- ArchDaily

A Miniature Manhattan Wrought in Marble

Japenese-born, Los Angeles-based artist Yutaka Sone uses it to sculpt vast landscapes, natural as well as architectural. The third in a series of models made in marble Sone exhibited his two-and-a-half-ton sculpture entitled Little Manhattan.... -- Metropolis

Waterfront Redevelopment 3

Source: Jesús Granada archdaily.com

El Palmeral of Surprises, Málaga, Spain, 2011 designed by Junquera Arquitectos

EL PALMERAL OF SURPRISES, events, varied and changing, permanent or temporary, a new space for Malaga with the aim of becoming the benchmark public space that the city needs a place of peaceful coexistence. -- ArchDaily

Source: Joao Morgado archdaily.com

Tagus Linear Park, 2625-039 Póvoa de Santa Iria, Portugal, 2013 designed by Topiaris Landscape Architecture

The Tagus Linear Park is an area of 15 000 sq m that was conquered by the surrounding communities of the industrial private sector and was felt as a democratic intervention by those forever deprived of access to the River. -- ArchDaily