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Architecture in infrastructure

 “After $6.4 Billion, San Francisco Bridge Remains a Mess” on eastern span of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge, designed by T.Y. Lin International and Moffatt & Nichol, Bloomberg, 8/19/2013

 “Penn Project Shamed by London’s Kings Cross Concourse” What stalled Penn Station NY project could learn from Kings Cross station addition, London, by John McAslan & Partners, Bloomberg 9/17/2012

“Calatrava’s $182 Million Bridge Favors Park Over Freeway,” on Margaret Hunt Hill bridge (Santiago Calatrava) and Trinity River park project, Bloomberg, 3/21/2012

“Sordid Penn Station Needs Overhaul for $9 Billion Tunnel Link” on the need to restart stalled overhaul of Penn Station, Bloomberg, 8/18/2009

“Stop the Boondoggles, Six-Lane Highways, MPOs” on New York’s Riverside Park as a community-enhancing, multi-modal example of the right kind of economic stimulus, Bloomberg, 1/22/2009

“The Great Divide” on New York City’s failure to build infrastructure for its future, Grid, 1 + 2/2001

“The most prosaic urban infrastructure—the subway—comes spectacularly to life in London’s Jubilee Line Extension” Reports on realization of enormously ambitious, difficult, and wildly successful infrastructure project. Architectural Record, 3/2000

“Port in a Storm” on prospects for multi-billion-dollar rebuilding effort by Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Grid, Spring 1999

“Is This Any Way to Build an Airport?” Investigative look at flawed financing and design process at Denver International Airport, Architectural Record, 11/1994

“Uncivil Engineering” on how architectural design is excluded from role in infrastructure, Architectural Record, 6/1993

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James S. Russell is an architecture critic, journalist, teacher and consultant. He's the author of the book, The Agile City, and has written for publications like Architectural Record, Bloomberg News, NY Times and more. Continue reading

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