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CHANGED!
Building on last year's success with LOST, VMWP is sponsoring CHANGED, a fun competition for Architects, Planners and Developers. Awards will be bestowed upon the projects that demonstrate the most change from initial design concept to the actual final design while maintaining design excellence. Details here.
Check out last year's winners here.
All entries will be exhibited at the Design Guild SF Gallery in San Francisco from September 27 – October 1 as part of the San Francisco Architecture & The City Festival.
Gallery Reception
September 29th 6pm-8pm
Design Guild SF Gallery
427 Bryant Street map
Architecuture & the City
September 1-30, 2010
Celebrating San Francisco's unique built environment and design community, Architecture and the City is the first festival of its kind in the Bay Area to feature architectural tours, film screenings, exhibitions, design lectures and more. Now in its seventh year, the month-long celebration engages members of the public, design enthusiasts and architects and designers with a deeper appreciation for San Francisco 's rich architectural and design community.
Green Affordable Housing Design Competition
VMWP's design entry was one of three winners of Phase I of the compettion.
The National Green Design Competition seeks the most talented architects to deliver bold, new, and exciting designs that positively impact the way we live.
The goal of Housing Authority of the City of El Paso (HACEP) is to create a spectacular international-quality integrated affordable housing development, showing the latest and highest quality sustainable design practices, and optimizing the environmental impact of our operations.
Check out our entry:
Cycling Copenhagen: Through North American Eyes
This was too cool not to share.
City by Design Denver Book
VMWP's Fireclay Lofts, North End Station and Uptown Broadway are featured projects in the City by Design - an architectural perspective of Denver. The book captures the diverse architectural fabric of the Denver area and presents a variety of exquisite spaces - including some of the city's finest mixed-use, multifamily and civic buildings - and introduces the notable firms that created them.
Ho'opili Recognized by the International Making Cities Livable Council
Ho'opili has been recognized as an outstanding healthy and child-friendly community by the International Making Cities Livable Council! Adam Rosa of Van Meter Williams Pollack will represent D.R. Horton, Schuler Division and the Ho'opili Task Force at the 48th International Making Cities Livable Conference on True Urbanism: Planning Healthy, and Child-Friendly Communities. Adam will be presenting an overview of the community-defined principles of Ho'opili with a focus on how to create healthy communities, and how to improve children's health and development by improving the built environment. The Conference will be held from October 17-21 in Charleston, South Carolina
VMWP Wins Hawai APA Award
VMWP's Waipahu Neighborhood Transit-Orientated Develpment Plan won the Best Practices for Sustainability Award from the Hawaii chapter of the American Planning Association.
Project Updates
VMWP's Los Medanos Village had it's Grand Oopening. The development is a sustainably built community of one to three bedroom flats and townhouses clustered around a series of courtyards. Please join us in the community room for a tour and reception. Resources for Community Development (RCD) is the developer.
North End Station
Thorton, CO
VMWP’s North End Station has received jurisdictional approval. Noteworthy because of its size and complex entitlement efforts. The 203 acre development will revitalize a neglected area with a mixed use and mixed income community that provides broad access to work opportunities, affordable housing, community services and an attractive and healthy living environment.
Livable Centers Studies – Upper Kirby & Northside
Houston, TX
VMWP's team was selected by the Houston Galveston Area Council (H-GAC) and the City of Houston to work in two Houston neighborhoods that comprise 4 different light rail stops. The team will develop a plan that addresses the application of the Livable Centers program goals to the identified study areas, including identification of transportation improvements that could leverage private investment and improve the quality of life in the project areas.
Recent Awards
VMWP's Schlage Lock (Visitacion Valley Design for Development) won the 2010 APA - Northern California Chapter's Planning Achievement Award – Hard-won Victories.
VMWP's projects won two San Francisco Business Times Awards:
Villa Vasconcellos, an affordable senior housing in Walnut Creek, CA was the Finalist for the Best Affordable Residential Award. Resources for Community Development is the developer.
Schlage Lock won the Best Land Deal Award. VMWP worked on the master plan for the 20 acre site in Visitacion Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, CA.
2009 APA - Hawaii Chapter
Waipahu Neighorhood TOD won the Best Practices for Sustainability Award.
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