Fort Totten Square in Washington, D.C., designed by Hickok Cole Architects, is a sharp departure from the retailer’s usual formula. Hickok Cole Architects designed 345 residential units atop a 125,000-square-foot Walmart in the Fort Totten neighborhood of Washington, D.C. If you heard that urban redevelopment in some Washington, D.C., neighborhoods was being spurred by Walmart, you might think it was a joke: Walmart, with its leviathan stores in the outer reaches of sprawl? But in a bid to crack urban markets, Walmart is piloting new, smaller store designs on infill sites, which sometimes integrate other uses and often connect with

An artist's rendering of possibilities for the planned 11th Street Bridge Park in Washington, D.C. A Washington, D.C., nonprofit will launch a national design competition tomorrow to turn the remains of a highway bridge that spans the Anacostia River into a public park. The proposed 11th Street Bridge Park would connect the Washington Navy Yard, where there has been a recent explosion of growth and development, and the Anacostia neighborhood to the east. Built on top of piers left over from the bridge, it will cost about $25 million. The bridge as it looks today. The competition is being organized

The American Institute of Architects organized a trade mission to India, whose government plans to invest $1 trillion in infrastructure between now and 2017. Photo courtesy path21 architecture The Gateway Brigade in Bangalore, India, is a mixed-use development with a business tower, hotel tower, mall, hospital, and large residential tower. The cosmopolitan city of Bangalore is home to much of the IT industry in India. In mid-October, more than 30 architects flew from points around the U.S. to Chennai, India, where they began a five-day, three-city trade mission organized by the American Institute of Architects (AIA) and the U.S. Department