#atlanta design

[expectopatronope]

Atlanta Contemporary Closet An illustration of a medium-sized, modern dressing room with gray and shaker cabinets and a light wood floor that is gender-neutral.

[msterpicasso]

@milanbrielle/@mlnbrlle

[brutalistinteriors]

Georgia Tech West Architecture Building, Atlanta. Cooper Carry Architects.

[swirley1618]

The Great Collection of Roller Derby Posters / part 1

[guy60660]

The Music Room | Atlanta

[vintagehomecollection]

Jack Adams, ASID, Adams Design, Inc., Honolulu, Hawaii.

100 Designers' Favorite Rooms, 1994

[odioart]

Pencils: Biggs Color: odio Web of Spiderman (recolor in the odio style) Coloring commissioned by @ovrthnk.us

[atlurbanist]

I took this photo over six years ago and nothing has changed in that time. It looks the same.

You're seeing a man run across an un-signalized pedestrian crossing on Piedmont Avenue, near North Avenue, to get to Publix. He's running because a small cluster of cars is barreling toward him (out of frame behind me) with no sign of slowing down.

I took out my camera in expectation of this scene because I'd just had the same experience while walking here.

The design of this section of Piedmont sends a psychological signal to drivers: "this looks like an interestate highway or a race track, so drive fast and don't bother looking for pedestrians."

This is a city-owned street with apartments all around. We're not just failing to give alternative transportation options a chance with this design. We're failing to be basically sympathetic to people who aren't in a car. And we're doing it year after year.

Atlanta has made many strides over the past few years with street design. They're well worth celebrating. But we shouldn't stop being shaken by the lingering danger that affects people in the problem spots.

Something that's also happened over the past six years: a health emergency left me with permanent neurological damage that affects my mobility. Now I see a scene like this and I'm forced to imagine what it will be like for me to slowly pass through with a cane. I want the city to look out for all of us, but I can't help but feel particularly protective of everyone who's incapable of running from the danger.

Darin Givens | Oct 22, 2024

[atlantathecity]

I'm glad to see leading pedestrian intervals at some intersections, where the walk signal gives pedestrians a head start. But I wish they were everywhere. I get this experience too often, being in a crosswalk while a car zips through as a driver makes a turn.

[This experience was, in fact, my entry into the urbanism rabbit hole -- specifically, crossing Ponce to get groceries while pushing my son in a baby stroller and watching drivers zip inches past us.]

Related: am I getting grumpier or is driver behavior getting worse? A little of both probably. We spotted multiple drivers brazenly run red lights yesterday while we were walking around.

It's also possible that my expectations of street safety have risen to the point where bad behavior is more glaring now that it used to be. Which is not a bad thing. We should all have higher expectations of safe streets.

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Videodrome Atlanta

[hyperdimensionalcorner]

[shedontlovehuhself]

This is so interesting! Also just a reminder the costume designer for the pilot won an award for their work on The Handmaid's Tale on Hulu.

[msterpicasso]

@mmmmaigal

[sincerelytennessee]

[heartbreak-off-da-x]

broke my heart 4 the evening

[odioart]

DMS x Odio Spay x Odio Vampirella colorful