Posts tagged with “Dennis McGlade”

Nature’s Balance

10 January 2008 | Philly Skyline

“Density is our salvation,” says the landscape architect McGlade, and in Headhouse of course, there’s enough density of everything to make it a dynamic and transformative public space. But McGlade has in mind the efficiencies in energy, transportation, and land use brought about by density.

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Snake Uprising

5 December 2007 | Philly Skyline

At the highway scale, the Cobra light is symbolic of the way we value the driver over the pedestrian. The light bathes the carriageway, but often leaves the sidewalk itself simply dark. Now imagine turning a Cobra light 180 degrees around. Magic.

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