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KTGY Architecture + Planning Selected to Design Mixed-Use Development in Downtown Salt Lake City -- KTGY Architecture + Planning

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The innovative project looks to transform this downtown district through the infusion of a diverse set of programs that will provide activated street frontages and a variety of housing typologies at all levels of affordability. The Exchange LOS ANGELES - Aug. 25, 2017 - PRLog -- KTGY Architecture + Planning unveiled today the preliminary design for a new mixed-use development that was selected as part of Salt Lake City 's plan to revitalize its downtown core developed by The Domain Companies , one of the nation's leading real estate investment and development firms specializing in sustainable mixed-use development, and the GIV Group, which combines a non-profit and entrepreneurial approach to community development. Called The Exchange, the design envisions a pedestrian- and transit-oriented mixed-use district focused on innovation and includes "startup" micro-unit apartments, business incubator space , creative office space , affordable and market-rate apartm...

Apartment, Willow Park (Nairobi)

This beautiful all inclusive gated community is carefully carved into Kiambu country’s cool countryside landscape to enhance your living experience. This is the way a home is meant to make you feel where a community of families meet on the front yard of tree lined streets , relax on the roof top garden terraces and where laughter fills playground . Willow Park Homes will bring together the natural landscape and the finest in new home design to maximize living spaces . The term behind the dream at willow Park Homes understands your need to live well and each home has been created as a heaven for you and your family. This is a decision you will be proud you made. You can access willow park homes through various routes; Limuru road, the northern by-pass or the upcoming waiyaki way link road next to ABC place. Willow park homes is 25 minutes’ drive from the CBD and only 10 minutes’ drive to village market the united nations headquarters as well as the us embassy. Its proximity to t...

Husker Student-Athletes: A Lifetime Experience - Huskers.com

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T he $8. 7 million Herman Student Life Complex tripled the size of the academic space available for Husker student -athletes by using the previous space known as the Hewit Center and the space previously occupied by the West Stadium Strength Complex . Nebraska Athletics is one of the few self- sustaining athletic programs in the country. In 2016-17, Nebraska was one of only two collegiate programs in the nation to attract nearly 1. 3 million fans across its seven major team sports through the doors of its world-class facilities. In 2016-17, Nebraska was the only Division I program to rank in the top 15 nationally in attendance in football and men's basketball. Overall, nine Husker sports ranked among the top 20 nationally in attendance in 2016-17. This incredible interest and support enables Nebraska Athletics to invest in the student-athlete experience, as well as the overall game-day experience. Nebraska is a leader in providing all the resources and support necessary f...

What Cities Can Learn From the Victorian Era

The Late Victorian period in the United States—roughly the last third of the 19th century—produced some of the most beautiful neighborhoods in the history of Western civilization . It also produced some of the most hopeless slums. In response to the crisis of industrial cities, the modern discipline of city planning emerged . The tools of this new profession helped clean up many unhealthy aspects of urban industry , but also stifled some of the best innovations of Late Victorian urbanism . By the 1920s, planners in the industrial world had established the legal authority to promulgate land-use regulations, and over the next generation, they succeeded at slowing the construction of slum housing and segregating noxious industries from incompatible activities, such as housing and office space. Through some of the same devices, however, planners curtailed some positive features of 19th- century urbanism , including the rich variety of free- form industrial development and the adaptiv...