15 Dec 2019

Ecological Design Work by EDD Featured in New Coastal Brooklyn Park

If you walk down Metropolitan Avenue, a street that stretches across North Brooklyn, you’ll eventually reach a dead end: a chain-link fence blocks off access to the waterfront on the East River. But vacant land behind the fence could soon be transformed into a new park that brings green space to the neighborhood—and that helps provide extra protection from storm surges as climate change pushes the water in the river to higher levels...

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8 Dec 2019

EDD Project Wins Global Design Award

Nepal’s Bayalpata Hospital has won an international award in the Health Category at the Global Architecture Festival held in Amsterdam on Thursday. The hospital in Nepal’s Achham district is a public-private partnership between the group Nyaya Health and the Nepal government, and is built almost entirely using rammed earth technology using locally available material with an ambitious zero carbon construction. eDesign Dynamics is responsible for all water related work on the project.  

Read the full Nepali Times account >>HERE<<
20 Nov 2019

Eric Rothstein Featured Speaker at ASLA SAN 2019

Eric Rothstein, Managing Partner and Engineer for eDesign Dynamics, was a featured speaker at last week's American Society of Landscape Architects conference, November 15-18 in San Diego.
19 Sep 2019

eDesign Dynamics Project Featured In New York Times Article

Rendering of Dock 72 at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, designed by S9 Architecture. A test of post-Sandy thinking, it hovers above the floodplain on V-shaped columns.

Roberto Clemente salt marsh and tidal pool project showcased in the New York Times as one of the “New Architecture” projects that aims to soften the barriers between the designed and natural environment.   eDesign served as the natural area designer to the prime landscape architect, MNLA.

 

Story by Karrie Jacobs.

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11 Aug 2019

WHYY-FM Interview of Dr Franco Montalto

SEPTA regional rail train. (Emma Lee/WHYY)

WHYY-FM, a public FM radio station licensed to serve Philadelphia, recently interviewed eDesign Dynamics' Principal Engineer, Dr. Franco Montalto, who is Associate Professor, Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering (CAEE) at  Drexel University. The interview was for the article "Climate change is messing with your commute, SEPTA says after storms halt trains."

Story by Ryan Briggs, published online by WHYY-FM.

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20 Feb 2019

Planet Philadelphia Interview with Franco Montalto

Planet Philadelphia show podcast from 2/15/19 The Environment: National and International Perspectives.

Franco Montalto, Ph.D., President and Principal Engineer at EDD, is an associate professor in Drexel’s Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering.  He has recently returned from the world climate change conference in Poland, COP24, and has contacts about environmental issues in other countries.  He discusses “integration” and systems issues in relationship to the environment, as well as some of his own work on urban environmental problems.

Listen >>HERE<<
12 Feb 2019

Dr Franco Montalto to be on Planet Philadelphia Environmental Radio Show

The Environment: National and International Perspectives, Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday 2/15/19

Dr. Franco Montalto will be in interviewed alongside former senior vice president at the World Bank, Vinod Thomas, in a show focused on learning the perspectives of people with both international and national contacts regarding environmental issues.

To find out some answers, tune in to Planet Philadelphia 4-5 pm Friday 2/15/19 on WGGT-LP 92.9 FM Germantown Community Radio and streaming at gtownradio.com​.

Read More at Planet Philadelphia >>HERE<<
15 Jan 2019

AIA NY 2019 Honor Award

+StL: Growing an Urban Mosaic

Led by the firm Object Territories, eDesign Dynamics was on the winning team of the AIA New York 2019 Honor Award in the Urban Design category for our project +StL: Growing an Urban Mosaic. EDD developed an integrated approach to stormwater management by incorporating historic hydrologic systems, establishing “hydrologic strategies,” and identifying a broad range of amenities that green stormwater systems could provide to the residents of St. Louis.

The winning projects will be published in the Spring issue of Oculus and exhibited at the Center for Architecture in Manhattan between April 15 and June 29, 2019.

Read more >>HERE<<

+StL: Growing an Urban Mosaic. Image: Object Territories

AIA New York’s annual Design Awards program recognizes outstanding architectural design by AIA New York members, New York City-based architects in any location, and work in New York City by architects around the globe. The purpose of the awards program is to honor the architects, clients, and consultants who work together to achieve design excellence.

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