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| All Offcite Posts Tagged: Disaster | Date Posted | Categories |
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Today’s Drought Presages Future CatastropheTrinity River in early 1900s In this special series, OffCite focuses on water and waterways. If this interests you, be sure to check out the Rice Design Alliance civic forum, Water: Challenges Facing the Houston Region, Wednesday August 31, 6:30 pm, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s Brown Auditorium. “It may not be a nice [...] |
08.30.11 | Infrastructure |
Are You in the Flood Zone?A 2,500 square-foot map of Houston flood zones in the University of Houston Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture atrium A 2,500-square-foot map illustrating Houston’s flood zones was installed in the atrium of the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture at the University of Houston on September 20th. In true Texas style, the map measures [...] |
10.04.10 | Environment |
Last Resorts: Proposals for Galveston’s East End FlatsRendering by Peter Muessig showing a mixed oceanside population of vacationers and residents on the East End Flats of Galveston, land created with dredge material from the ship channel. Over half of the United States population lives on or near the coast. Almost forty-percent of the world’s population lives within one-hundred kilometers of the water’s [...] |
07.09.10 | Architecture |
Eco-Catastrophe to Eco-ResortPool deck of Morris Architects’ proposal to adaptively reuse an oil rig as a resort Oil rigs normally do not bring to mind images of men and women sunning themselves on a pool deck. These days oiled beaches, dying pelicans, jobless fishermen, and the gushing pipe saturate our screens. But what if, a team at [...] |
06.17.10 | Architecture Environment |
Making It Right?Aerial view of Lower 9th Ward, New Orleans showing Make It Right projects. Flooding that followed Hurricane Katrina destroyed the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans and Brad Pitt’s foundation, Make It Right, asked many of the world’s most creative architects to help. The cover story in the current issue of Cite (81), written by [...] |
04.14.10 | Architecture Environment |
Furniture buyers unite! You have nothing to lose but your La-Z-Boy.All photographs courtesy wacdesignstudio. “I came home with a high fever; my ears still hurt. Just from the noise — a ringing in my ears. It is very toxic. But it’s Houston.” Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amaré Cartwright is describing the after effects of Sunday’s Furniture Sale on North Freeway (announced last week on OffCite), a daylong [...] |
03.11.10 | Art & Culture Design |
Guerrilla Furniture SaleScott Cartwright and Jenny Lynn Weitz-Amare Cartwright showcase their first furniture line. [Photo courtesy wacdesignstudio] In January, the New York Times reported that employment at US architecture firms had dropped from its July 2009 peak at 224,500 to 184,600 by November. Commercial development has ground to a halt, the big car manufacturers have pulled the [...] |
03.05.10 | Art & Culture Design |
Making Sense of IkeRemains of Bolivar [From presentation of Nitja McGrane] According to a FEMA official, about 700 homes along the Bolivar Peninsula will be bought out and the land “returned to nature.” “People will be relocated,” said Nitja McGrane, community education and outreach coordinator for FEMA’s Region VI mitigation division. She did not offer any further details [...] |
08.28.09 | Environment |
Designing Life after IkeStorm surge barriers for The Netherlands [Image Courtesy William Merrill] Now what? Almost as soon as the immediate danger from Hurricane Ike subsided, experts and government officials began asking themselves how to prevent the devastation from happening again. The proposals have been varied but have shared certain characteristics—billion-dollar price tags and ambitious scope. One plan [...] |
08.27.09 | Environment |
What if Mega-Ike Hits?Projected 22.4 foot surge [Courtesy Gordon Wells, University of Texas] The Rice Design Alliance, the organization behind this blog, held the first of a two-part forum on Post-Hurricane Ike Planning. Eric Berger, the SciGuy of the Houston Chronicle, moderated the July 15 event, which featured some big-time scientists and engineers, the kind of people mayors [...] |
07.31.09 | Environment |
