High Line, New York. Un nuevo parque

Photo Iwan Baan Today, Tuesday 9 June 2009 was opened a new park in New York. It is the transformation of the High Line, abandoned railway line nine meters high that runs along the west of the island, parallel to the Hudson River. The project includes the consolidation

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Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper

“Almuerzo en un rascacielos” es una de las fotografías más famosas de Charles C. Ebbets, todo un clásico de los pósters que te encuentras habitualmente en tiendas de decoración, librerías etc. La imagen fue tomada en el año 1932 durante la construcción del complejo de edificios comerciales Rockefeller Center, en la planta 69 del

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Urban Agriculture

As Federico told us a few months ago on his blog Islands and Territory, one of the measures to combat the crisis is to grow our own food garden básicos.A part of the current economic situation makes us reflect on aspects such, there are other interesting data on the other hand worrying

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Ecobarrios

After the interesting lecture given by Dr. Architect D. José María Ezquiaga in the College of Architects of Tenerife last day 22 January with the title "Planning and Sustainability: The need for balance "I decided to investigate a concept proposed in this paper; the ecobarrios.Definir this concept with some

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Travel to London

Plurality, mixture of races and cultures, city ​​buildings flanked by antagonistic, Victorian and modern, that nevertheless makes a city smart and disciplined, these are my first impressions of my trip to London. It is one of the greenest cities in the world, llena de plazas arboladas y grandes

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