Dan and Greg recount journeys to Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sao Paulo, and yes, Pittsburgh, all unique urban palimpsests offering rich landscapes of inquiry. The journey continues into digital realms, and some potential digital interventions for the A/E/C industry’s seemingly intractable efficiency and discontinuity, which to this day conspire to make building good things, especially public works and affordable housing, expensive and slow.
Show Notes
Intro/Outro: “Kaze Wo Atsumete,” by Happy End
Discussed:
- Pittsburgh
- Mark Houser
- Unfrozen 81: Houser + Hytha = Highrises
- Cathedral of Learning
- The Pittsburgh Agreement
- Richard Florida’s “Eds and Meds” theories
- Pittsburgh Regional Transit’s former interurban trolley lines
- The Inclines
- Tokyo
- Thanks, Points Guy!
- Shinjuku Park Tower / Park Hyatt (Kenzo Tange, 1994)
- Lost in Translation, Sofia Coppola, 2003
- Midtown Tower (SOM, 2007)
- Roppongi Hills (KPF, 2003)
- Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building (Kenzo Tange, 1991)
- Imperial Hotel – Frank Lloyd Wright, 1922-1967; Mitsui Fudosan, 1970-present; next edition coming soon-ish
- Hotel Okura (Yoshiro Tanaguchi, 1962-2019; Taisei Corp. 2019-present)
- Hong Kong
- M+ (Herzog & De Meuron, 2XXX)
- Eric Chen
- Shirley Surya
- Archigram Archives
- Nakagin Capsule Tower
- Eric Ho, via Greg’s “Hacking the City: A New Model for Urban Renewal,” The New Republic, 10 December 2015
- Sao Paulo
- Dan’s Vertical Urbanism article on his trip
- Cracolandia
- Japan <> Brazil polestar
- Fasano Hotel Sao Paulo (Isay Weinfeld)
- Hotel Unique (Ruy Ohtake)
- SESC Pompeia (Lina Bo Bardi, 1986)
- KPF Tech Week
- Upcoming Greg Lindsay / Brian Boyer White Paper for University of Michigan on “Chain Drain”
- Autodesk: time wasted communicating about construction
- Navigant survey on RFIs
- McKinsey survey on construction costs
- Argues for the need for a standard of governance and/or quality
- Can/should we Wal-martize our A/E/C supply chain?
- Pokemon Go’s 10th anniversary: 6 July 2026
- EU Digital Product Passports
- Local Law 97
- 270 Park Avenue
- NYRA 50th Edition: Goldberger vs Krotov
- Jamie Dimon’s back to office call – is any data being collected?
- Brian Potter, Construction Physics: “Welcome to Another Day in Katerra-dise” 9 June 2021
- Anori (born from Google X, The Moonshot Factory) and BIM 2.0
- The Lacaton & Vassal Model: Just Don’t Build It
- Google repurposing lumber from the Moffett Field blimp hangars for its building in The Dalles, Oregon
- Florida + BCG: Rise of the Urban Knowledge Campus
- Mass Design: Alan Ricks
- Ha/f Climate Design: Kelly Alvarez Doran
- Bobby Fijan, American Housing Corp.
- WeWork
- Phil Kirschner : The Workline
- Canoa
- Sidewalk Toronto
- The Baumol Cost Disease Effect
- Niantic Spatial
- Keyhole (In-Q-Tel)
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