City Beautiful Blog takes a look at Chelsea — one of Manhattan's most layered neighborhoods. The Oreo was invented in what is now Chelsea Market. The Hotel Chelsea sheltered Mark Twain, Bob Dylan, and Leonard Cohen. The land under London Terrace once belonged to the author of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas. And the High Line transformed an abandoned freight rail line into one of the city's most celebrated parks.
#NYCHistory #Architecture #NYC #LocalHistory #UrbanDesign
https://citybeautifulblog.com/chelsea-highlights/
CHELSEA HIGHLIGHTS — City Beautiful BLOG

Highlights of Chelsea neighborhood: art galleries, modern architecture, secluded spots, the High Line and a bit of Chelsea history.

City Beautiful Blog

What Great Neighborhoods Do — and What We Can Do Here

Five real examples of communities that transformed themselves using hard-nosed legal tools — and what Coolock Village can learn from them.

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K67: A Relic of Slovenian Design in London

It’s impossible to miss this kiosk. A bright yellow box parked outside Spitalfields Market, looking like it had been teleported in from a 1960s sci-fi film set. This is a K67 kiosk. It’…

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K67: A Relic of Slovenian Design in London

It’s impossible to miss this kiosk. A bright yellow box parked outside Spitalfields Market, looking like it had been teleported in from a 1960s sci-fi film set. This is a K67 kiosk. It’s a modular street unit designed by Slovenian architect Saša Mächtig in 1966 and one of the most successful pieces of street furniture ever produced. Thousands of these were manufactured and scattered across Yugoslavia as newspaper stands, ticket booths, and telephone kiosks. Now one sits here on Brushfield Street, stuffed with art books and posters, quietly holding its own against the glass and steel of modern London.

What caught my eye was the reflection in the window beside it. The kiosk is doubled, ghosted against the Victorian brickwork behind the glass. Three eras layered in one frame: nineteenth-century London, Cold War-era Slovenian industrial design, and the sleek commercial architecture of today. The little yellow box wins.


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#2025 #Architecture #K67Kiosk #London #Photo #Photography #reflection #SašaMächtig #SonyA7RV #SpitalfieldsMarket #StreetPhotography #UnitedKingdom #Urban #urbanDesign #yellow

K67: A Relic of Slovenian Design in London

It’s impossible to miss this kiosk. A bright yellow box parked outside Spitalfields Market, looking like it had been teleported in from a 1960s sci-fi film set. This is a K67 kiosk. It’s a modular street unit designed by Slovenian a...

https://inphotos.org/2026/03/26/k67-a-relic-of-slovenian-design-in-london/

#Architecture #K67Kiosk #London #Photo #Photography #reflection #SašaMächtig #SpitalfieldsMarket #StreetPhotography #UnitedKingdom #Urban #UrbanDesign #yellow

Final photo of Denver's East High School. It's a big building, stretching over 450 feet (135 meters) in length. This photo shows a bit more of the two symmetrical wings, which feature mid-wing octagonal towers that interrupt the long horizontal run of the wings and serve as secondary nodes and vertical accents to the central tower.

The building is also situated within a formal site plan at the foot of East 16th Avenue, with the 162-foot (49-meter) central tower being a visual terminus that can been seen from quite a distance away. The building fronts on City Park Esplanade, a City Beautiful-era landscaped parkway that connects Colfax Avenue to the southwest entrance to City Park, directly north of the school.

February 2026 | Denver, USA

#architecture #historicbuildings #historicplaces #urbandesign #beauxarts #collegiategothic #italianrenaissancerevival #school #denver #colorado

RE: https://halo.nu/@theguardian_world_news/116283254251501533

I find this article uplifting :)
Also NSW people, any experience with the Housing Pattern Book?

#Sustainability #UrbanDesign