Reclaiming the Concrete: How Color and Pattern Transformed a Plaza
By Lijing Yu, Urban Designer Gamble Associates is proud to partner with the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport) on the Viaduct. This public realm initiative is part of a larger placemaking effort that includes open space activation, signage, wayfinding and event programming. Walk through Boston’s Seaport District, and you are bound to notice a familiar aesthetic: a polished, modern landscape […]
Negotiating Crisis, Color and Culture
By Kenneth Mata, Assoc. AIA Architecture and urban design are continually reshaped by crises. Natural disasters, climate change, war and conflict, pandemics, economic turbulence and migration patterns constantly transform public space and collective identity. Crises do more than displace people; they disrupt cultural identities and social formalities tied to space. In such moments of turmoil, […]
Shifting from a zero-sum game to a spectrum of possibilities
by Antonia Medina Abell Even before we set foot in Rochester, we were warned about the “Legends building”. If the name sounded fantastical, the details were far more pedestrian: a humble yellow-brick, one-story building (which we later discovered were two separate constructions, enmeshed in a maze of doors and insensitive renovations) from the Great Depression, […]
Enhancing the public realm of medical districts
by David Gamble, AIA AICP LEED AP Urban medical districts are places of sensory overload, with a wide variety of activities occurring at the same time: valet parking, people seeking out the emergency rooms, students racing to class, employees changing shifts, ambulance sirens wailing, patients being admitted and discharged, visitors seeking a cup of coffee […]