On the ride out to the dredge, she explained some of the challenges of beach design: "First, you need a lot of sand".
On Sunday, in the cement-walled, entrance courtyard, the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City opened Dunescape, an urban beach designed by Shop, five young New York architects, as part of its Warm Up 2000 series of summer entertainments.
P.S. 1 and the Museum of Modern Art have held a competition for an urban-beach design since 1998 to give young architects a chance to build experimental environments.
The results are of relevance to the development of both predictive formulae for coarse-grained sediment transport and guidance for practical gravel and cobble beach design.
His Hotel Tropical Tambaú, a circle half-capturing a beach, is designed to disappear from view.
Dimensionless benefits and benefit-cost ratios are quantified, and recommendations made on how to select the best outcome from a benefit-to-cost standpoint when options including hard structures are incorporated into a beach nourishment project design.
Pete Bossley, an architect based in Auckland, New Zealand, integrated a shower into a beach house he designed for a striking site on the Bay of Islands in northern New Zealand.
Through October, the pop-up is a beach club, renovated by Design Hotels, in Mykonos; rooms start at 120 euros, or $153, at $1.26 to the euro.
Just now, on the site of two former houses in Malibu, Mr. Broad is building a 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-foot 4,000-square-footer, who designed the new Getty Center here.
The agencies involved in the Green Sea Partnership have designed a beach award scheme, the Green Coast Award (GCA) to develop tourism through sustainable management plans at rural beaches in Wales.
