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Copy Global architecture firm Perkins&Will, in collaboration with ARUP, Grimshaw Architects, EPS , AIM Consulting, and the City of Sacramento, have transformed the city s historic train station into a self-reliant and regenerative transportation hub, making it one of the most sustainable public areas in California. The design team worked alongside the local community to create a people-centric 31-acre master plan that reflects what the community envisions for a public train station and gateway to the city of Sacramento. The Sacramento Valley Station is the primary rail station in northern California and the seventh occupied station in the country. The new master plan capitalizes on land value through the development of mixed-use projects to reinforce the connections between Old Sacramento, Downtown Sacramento, and the emerging Railyards District. The design focused their plans on user experience, creating a walkable and livable district, and developing a network of altern ....
Copy This article was originally published on Common Edge as Presenting Architecture as Progressive, but Practicing Through Exclusion. For a profession that likes to congratulate itself about how well-meaning it is, and sees itself as liberal, diverse, open, and progressive, British architecture has a serious problem with diversity of pretty much every kind. It is dominated by people from well-off backgrounds. It trains a lot of brilliant female architects but doesn’t pay them as much as men, and loses many of them after 30 when they are not supported in balancing work and family life. Its ethnic makeup is very, very white, considering that it’s 2020. A supposed beacon of success is the acceptance of the LGBTQ community within the field, but as with women and those from and religious and ethnic minorities, stories of unprofessional comments, inappropriate jokes, and insidious forms of jovially “innocent” othering and the diminution of identity-specific concerns a ....