Todd Clarke @ August 21, 2009 # No Comment Yet
A good friend, developer, proffesor and author friend of mine, Chris Lienberger, wrote a fabulous book titled “Option of Urbanism” a couple of years ago. One of the items I was stunned to learn is that GM designed and presented their vision of a future metropolis - centered around cars.
Some sixty years [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 20, 2009 # One Comment
What could this image possible be - a new master planned community in a remote desert location?
No, believe it or not, it is the burning man festival (from 2005) - thanks to Gizmodo.com for the article
Todd Clarke @ August 19, 2009 # One Comment
from the Cool Hunter website comes a possible design for a new W hotel…
The website features several perspectives and layouts on this apartment, which looks like a cross between BladeRunner and Space 1999.
Hey - who is that in my shower?
Todd Clarke @ August 18, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Many of us know the story of how Southwest Airlines has remained so profitable against bigger airlines - it focuses on its competitive advantages - they fly one model plane, they cross-train their staff, they turn (term for time plane lands til it takes off) planes twice as fast as the industry standard, they cut [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
From Four Hills!
Todd Clarke @ August 6, 2009 # No Comment Yet
In a copyright story by the Albuquerque Journal, the headline read “State: Almost Half of Class of 2008 Didn’t Graduate” and was followed by “Roughly half the students who should have graduated with the class of 2008 failed to do so, prompting a call to action by the state’s education secretary.”
While the headline is alarming, [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 5, 2009 # One Comment
Fire last night destroyed one of Albuquerque’s best loved medium sized apartment communities- the Castle Apartments. Located between downtown and old town at 1410 Central SW, the 20 unit apartment community caught fire around 8pm and continued to burn in the Wednesday morning.
Built in 1922, the 15,150 square foot apartments featured amazing built-ins and [...]
Todd Clarke @ August 3, 2009 # No Comment Yet
This doesn’t look so good…
Thanks to Gizmodo.com for the headsup on this diaster in Turkey!