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The 2014 World Cup extravaganza in Brazil has been replete with stellar sportsmanship and stunning spectacle. However, let’s take a look at the stadiums themselves, hosting hundreds of thousands of people throughout the month-long World Cup. Are they as good as the games on the field? Last week we wrote about how brilliantly Fenway Park is interwoven into Boston’s urban fabric — a post we called“Baseball Urbanism”. This week we venture into “World Cup Urbanism.” Not that all sports arenas should look or operate like Fenway Park, but can design trends be detected, and lessons learned, from evaluating Brazil’s World … Continued

Boston, Massachusetts has always had a legacy of greenways which help connect river ways, century-old parks and the harbor. Being the walkable-city that we are (currently third behind New York City and Washington D.C. according to Walk-Score) Boston boasts some visionary plans, shaped in part by famous landscape architects Frederick Law Olmsted and Charles Eliot. Among other planners they helped revolutionize Boston’s system of public spaces. Ironically, Boston is ninth-worst in the country for our traffic. In 2011, former Mayor Menino pledged to change Boston’s traffic issues by 2030, hoping to boost the rates of walking, biking and public transit … Continued

Fenway Park, built in 1912, celebrated its dedication with a World Series championship in its first year of baseball, and again, most recently, in 2013. But beyond its home victories, this sacrarium of summer’s prime pastime stands out as one of Boston’s most exemplary urban settings. Seating 37,499 seats during a game, Fenway Park is a landmark unbeknownst to many out-of-towners. Yet it is perfectly planted within the urban fabric of Kenmore Square’s extended neighborhood. When Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and thought the driver didn’t understand … Continued

Paul Lukez Architecture (PLA) is pleased to announce that its design for Proyecto Clamor de Paz (aka Jennie’s Place) has won a “Small Firms/Small Projects” award from the Boston Society of Architects. As part of the BSA’s awards program promoting design excellence, this competition solicits entries from Massachusetts based designers working on projects anywhere around the world. The Jennie’s Place project is motivated in part as a response to a heart wrenching story. On June 3rd 2008, two children living in a small house overlooking a lush valley in Guaimaca, Honduras were murdered by four criminals. Jennie Lizeth Lopez (12) … Continued

Paul Lukez Architecture has been greatly honored by the request of The Kunlun Group to develop several conceptual designs for their new headquarters located in Hangzhou, China. The project calls for a development inland of the Yangtze River, a manufacturing hot spot in the midst of the Hangzhou metropolitan area, which is now undergoing a rejuvenating transformation. Our concept includes an environmentally sustainable office design to both the tenants of the building, as well as the public. Lush hanging gardens are proposed on top of outside walk-ways to add a, “greening” effect to the public in such an industrialized area. … Continued