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I watched your 2011 TEDx talk earlier today, which focused on the concept of civic ecology and took inspiration from E.V. It just goes to show you that if you are standing upright for 40 years, they'll give you an award. At SERA, he has also been instrumental in the firm’s long-range planning and urban design efforts for Google.Īnticipating an interview with Smith about OMSI and his long career on the occasion of his College of Fellows honor, I also watched a 2011 TEDx talk that Smith delivered called 'A Living Community Framework for Sustainability,' in which he discusses the social and equity-based components necessary for healthy and sustainable urban communities that topic wound up guiding a lot of our conversation, including our talk about the OMSI District.īrian Libby: Congratulations on your fellowship. Smith has also served locally as vice president of the Portland Planning Commission and the Mayor’s Central City Roundtable, not to mention as urban design advisor to the City of San Francisco for the Treasure Island Redevelopment. This comes as Smith, founder of the firm’s Urban Design and Planning Studio, was earlier this year named to the American Institute of Certified Planners' College of Fellows. There are ambitious sustainability goals here, its backers promise, and a commitment to equity.Īlthough ZGF is the OMSI District's master-plan architect (replacing Oslo and New York-based Snøhetta), SERA Architects is a partner on the development team, led by Edlen & Company principal Tim Smith helped put together the development team. There will also be mixed-use commercial buildings, as well as a waterfront education park focusing on indigenous heritage, and a Center for Tribal Nations on the OMSI property. The district is projected to include 1,200 housing units, forming with the Burnside Bridgehead development to the north a residential bookend to the otherwise non-residential Central Eastside. Last December, more than a decade after it was first announced, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry unveiled plans for its OMSI District along the east side of Willamette River, which will turn surface parking lots and vacant land between the Marquam Bridge and Tilikum Crossing (and adjacent to the museum) into a high-density enclave. To see our running list of the top 100 greatest guitarists of all time, click here.Tim Smith at his his AICP College of Fellows enshrinement ( SERA Architects) The streamed performances will be hosted on the festival’s YouTube channel, which you can see here.

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Plans to eventually host more performances at Skylab, the festival’s own professional recording studio in Joshua Tree, are still developing.įor current info/tickets for the virtual Desert Stars will still be available here.

“We still have our show we just don’t have a venue.”įor the last two years, the festival was hosted at The Desert Stars Outdoor Theater in downtown Joshua Tree. “Some filmed sets in their rehearsal in a studio or a garage, Mercury Rev filmed in a theater with no audience,” Dietrick said. The bands on the bill have begun video recording their performances in their various hometowns across the world. “It’s just not worth the risk so a couple months ago we started preparing all the bands by telling them this is probably going to be digital which is what all the events are doing so all the bands did their part to film as best they could.” “It was a risk to move it to fall and the closer we got with all the indications that things weren’t getting any better, it was inevitable that we were gonna have to pivot,” Dietrick said. Mercury Rev Announce Bobbie Gentry Tribute Album, Release “Sermon” (ft.

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