With Times Square busting a gut and commercial rents continuing their skyward march, this sparsely settled low-rise landscape would seem the perfect place for more development.
The Bowery's rapid transformation is behind a crusade to preserve what is left of its timeworn, low-rise landscape and something of its personality, the grit as well as the glitter.
Archie Bunker image and low-rise landscape notwithstanding, Queens is also the most polyethnic borough in a polyethnic city, and for its Oriental, Hispanic and West Indian communities baseball is a sport familiar from the old country.
Three-dimensional cellular automata (3D-CA) are here proposed as means to model the manifold vertical features, which are not sufficiently taken into account with current state-of-the-art methods: the heterogeneous high-rise landscape and convection as a major heat rejection mechanism.
Before me lay a gently rising landscape of ice that seemed to have no end.
We crossed Broadway, ascending Fairview Avenue to Wadsworth Terrace, where the steeply rising landscape required parts of some buildings to be constructed on stilts.
Becket, whose firm had by that point already completed the Capitol Records tower and the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, was skilled at designing civic and cultural buildings that stood out from the mostly low-rise landscape of postwar Los Angeles.
But on the outskirts of the city, just off a busy dual carriageway, is the collection of low-rise, landscape-gardened buildings that make up the Cambridge Science Park.The resemblance to the architecture of Silicon Valley is striking, and deliberate: the high-tech industry that has grown up around Cambridge is known as "Silicon Fen".
Life at Microsoft apparently is not as collegial as its low-rise, landscaped campus in Redmond, Wash., might suggest.
Events this weekend: a Bird Walk (tomorrow at 11 a.m.); a discussion with rose experts (tomorrow at 1 p.m.); a workshop in putting a rose garden to bed for the winter (Sunday at 1 30); and a rose landscaping demonstration (Sunday at 2 30 p.m.).
Among the topics that will receive special attention are the rise of landscape painting and its relation to religious beliefs, the role of imperial patronage, the landscape art of scholar-officials, and the relationship between words and images that dominated landscape painting of the late imperial era.
