I’ll leave you with images of pedestrian uses in two radically different pedestrian realm within a streetscape. One driven by desperation and other a conscious work of street design. The first one is of 11th Avenue in Ashok Nagar, Chennai and the other from the boulevard adjacent to Bibotheque Francois Mitterand in Paris. [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Chennai’
June 21, 2008
Green Washing the Glass Guzzler
The news piece in Architectural Record will make you roll your eyes looking at the title ” Chennai Airport to become India’s Greenest”…yet again. .’Green Washing’ the energy guzzler in a glass box. Not sure what these guys from Frederic Schwartz Architects, Hargreaves Associates, Gensler are smoking when talking about ‘lush’ 2-acre gardens [...]
