Mark Williams

Architectural and Interior designer based in Atlanta, GA.

[Alejandro Cencerrado @AlejandroCence2]

Aunque parezca mentira, hubo un tiempo en que la gente también se oponía a peatonalizar esta zona del Sena. Ahora ya nadie quiere volver a lo que era. Hay un miedo al cambio que los alcaldes deben superar con valentía.

[Daragh Cassidy @DaraghCassidy]

Bike lanes with trees instead of plastic bollards. Yes please! The council did a really nice job here. The street feels much nicer for pedestrians too, not just cyclists.

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

Put your hands together
Get your feet on the floor
Dance and sing till you can’t no more 🤠🎶

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

[Mark Williams @DesignMWilliams]

@ATLDOT While the process is cumbersome, and does cause inconvenience, the inconvenience is temporary! What you are doing will create a national model for transformation of in-town neighborhoods that were formerly dedicated to automobile traffic and will now be dedicated to people. 👍🏼

[Mark Williams @DesignMWilliams]

@bigjoe93 The giant parcel that surrounds that station is just ripe for a TOD massive development. There is so much land immediately adjacent to that station, those local land owners r need to unite and form a master plan for an amazing live work play Neighbourhood\destination,

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. ❤️

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

courtyard urbanism is such a valuable model because is simultaneously creates safe, high-amenity public streets and ...

[DaVinci @BiancoDavinci]

Stained-glass staircase by Piet Mondrian, from the 1900s.

[Matt Bedsole @Matt_Bedsole]

Midtown Atlanta, served by three heavy rail stations, is one of America's most successful examples of TOD.

25k people have moved into the district since 2000 w/ pop. density approaching New York City.

Turns out Sun Belt cities can change fast with trains under tall buildings.

[createstreets @createstreets]

Streets are better with trees …

[The Aesthetic City @Aesthetic_City]

Build pleasant places

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

This is proof of how important trees are for nature and people.

[ʙʏ ᴍᴏʀᴛᴀʟ ʜᴀɴᴅ @bymortalhand]

Nearly 2,000 years after it was built, the Pantheon still has the largest unreinforced concrete dome in the world.

The interior is perfectly proportioned, the height to the oculus and the diameter to the rotunda are both about 43m, creating an almost perfect sphere

[Alicia, Courtyard Urbanist @UrbanCourtyard]

this is a good model for a neighborhood street

buildings are ~50 ft, 6 stories tall, mixed use, with a wide range of units that accommodate diverse households across the lifecycle

(this is Berlin, a courtyard block city)

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

One of the greatest and oldest special effects in history can be witnessed in Rome today

And it has been playing out, on cue, for nearly 2000 years...

Each year on April 21, the traditional birthday of Rome — the legendary date Romulus founded the city in 753 BC — the midday sun pierces the oculus at the crown of the Pantheon's dome and casts a perfect disk of light that settles squarely on the temple's entrance.

For roughly two minutes and fifty seconds, the bronze doors blaze gold...

At that exact moment, the Emperor would step across the threshold, his body swallowed in sunlight, as though the heavens themselves were handing him the city.

Hadrian's engineers designed the entire building as a cosmos in miniature: the interior is exactly 43.3 metres wide and 43.3 metres tall, meaning a perfect sphere fits inside it.

The Roman senator Cassius Dio wrote that the vaulted roof was meant to resemble the heavens themselves...

[The City Mentor @TheCityMentor]

Just a few years ago this lively place was filled with cars

[Mark Williams @DesignMWilliams]

@Urban_Connector Truth.

[Eric Phillips @HowEPhil]

Small street design changes go a lonnnnnng way in improving safety, making the area more inviting, & having people be comfortable & *WANT* to spend more time nearby.

So much can happen with such little refinements 👀

[createstreets @createstreets]

In praise of courtyards by @UrbanCourtyard …

https://t.co/FXoxJyL9rj