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Past, Present and Future of the Parking Garage

Moskow Linn Architects Inc. A 2004 proposal by Moskow Linn Architects called for dispensing rental cars for Zipcar in a structure inspired by Pez candy holders. Yes, there’s a parking meter — and parking time stamp machines and parking attendant hats. ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Zipcar,  Frank Lloyd Wright,  Paul Rudolph,  Eero Saarinen,  Santiago Calatrava

Infiniti's Essence, Designed by Marketing

The Infiniti Essence concept car comes with a set of matching Louis Vuitton luggage that fits perfectly inside the trunk. In March, Infiniti unveiled the Essence concept car at the Geneva auto show. Like most concept cars, the Essence is sleek, sexy ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Infiniti,  Louis Vuitton,  Nissan,  Formula One,  New York Times Company

Design Is the Key to Detroit's Future, Study Says

So the key to success is frequent superficial style changes? Give me a break. Everyone I know personally who bought Japanese cars did so because those cars are RELIABLE and well-engineered. Reliability seems irrelevant to these authors. In my opinion, ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  9 Nov 2009

Related Topics: General Motors,  Ford Motor Company,  BMW,  Porsche,  Mazda

Design: Graceful Interchanges, Now Doubling as Civic Sculpture

NEW YORKERS maintain that Los Angeles is a city with no center. But Angelenos argue that the city of freeways has its core in the Stack, a tower of overpasses the first four-level connector interchange, according to the California Transportation ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  6 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Transportation Department,  Barack Obama,  Michael Bloomberg,  United States Chamber of Commerce

Will Smarter Roads Save Us More Money?

Traffic congestion reduces gross national product around the world by 1 percent, I.B.M. researchers calculate — a serious chunk of money. To do something about it, Big Blue has been experimenting in Australia, Hong Kong, Scotland and the Netherlands on ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  24 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Environmental Defense Fund

BMW Offers Plug-In Electric Diesel Hybrid (and It’s Green, Too)

LOOKING around the floor of the Frankfurt auto show in September, it would have been easy to conclude that the future of cars lies in pod-like electric models and not sports cars. But with his Vision EfficientDynamics car, a model of what future BMWs ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  21 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Formula One,  Polytechnic University

Detroit Thought Small in the 1930s

Theodore Pietsch III Design sketch of the Chrysler Star Car, a small-car concept from the 1930s that was never built. A new exhibition at the Wolfsonian-Florida International University, a museum devoted to art, design, propaganda, advertising and a ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  14 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chrysler,  Ford Motor Company,  Chevrolet,  Ferdinand Porsche,  General Motors

Wheels: Jaguar Introduces Students to Its Latest XJ

It will not be in showrooms until next spring. Mr. Taylor and the XJ are making an unusual tour of automobile design schools that began at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., and includes Parsons The New School for Design in New York ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  12 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Ford Motor Company,  College for Creative Studies,  Tata Motors Ltd,  Lexus

Jaguar Introduces Students to Its Latest XJ

It will not be in showrooms until next spring. Mr. Taylor and the XJ are making an unusual tour of automobile design schools that began at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif., and includes Parsons The New School for Design in New York ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  9 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Jaguar,  Ford Motor Company,  College for Creative Studies,  Tata Motors Ltd

Robert Frank's Photos From an American Road Trip

Photographs courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art “U.S. 90, En Route to Del Rio, Texas,” by Robert Frank. For “The Americans,” Mr. Frank chose from about 27,000 photos shot during his travel across America in the mid-1950s, along with contact ...

From PHIL PATTON, The New York Times,  8 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Robert Frank,  Metropolitan Museum of Art,  Jack Kerouac

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