Another successful NYC design competition! New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg recently announced that Young-Hwan Choi’s “Urban Umbrella” design won the urbanSHED design contest to re-think sidewalk ...
Sidewalk construction sheds, no matter how necessary, are complete eyesores that weave across nearly 200 miles of New York City streets. But the steel and plywood monstrosities will soon be replaced ...
A new scaffolding manufacturer, Shed Innovations, aims to compete with Urban Umbrella by making a better looking scaffolding than traditional ones, but at half the price. SHED, as the company is known ...
The dark, boxy sidewalk sheds currently protruding from buildings undergoing construction in New York City will soon be replaced by brighter, more airy structures called Urban Umbrellas. Mayor ...
Our tour started on the corner of First Street and Central Avenue in Little Tokyo, the very spot where in January 1942 Japanese-Americans were told to report for transportation to internment camps ...
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How Nice Should a Sidewalk Shed Be?
En route to my desk to write this column, I passed the office tower at 3 Park Avenue. It’s a big caramel-colored prism at the corner of 34th Street, built in 1973. The plaza out front has spent about ...
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