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World Architecture Festival 2024: fjcstudio Recognized for World Building of The Year and All Other Day 3 Winners

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fjcstudio previously won Building of the Year in 2013, making it the first practice in WAF's history to win the award twice. Image © Brett Boardman The Darlington Public School in Australia by fjcstudio has been declared the World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival 2024.

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SCAPE completes Living Breakwaters coastal resiliency project for Staten Island

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)’s Rebuild By Design competition in 2013. Image courtesy SCAPE/Ty Cole Staten Island was heavily impacted by Superstorm Sandy, prompting the launch of the U.S. A live oyster installation for the project is expected to follow by 2027.

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Elvira y Marcos House / Pepe Gascon Arquitectura

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© Aitor Estévez architects: Pepe Gascon Arquitectura Location: Calle Revuelta, 3 - Viladecavalls (Barcelona), Spain Project Year: 2013 Photographs: Aitor Estévez Area: 2475.7 ft2 Read more »

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New version of sustainable design tool Tally to launch in 2025

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The original Tally tool was launched in 2013 by KieranTimberlake, who began developing the tool in 2008. This updated version of the LCA tool aims to enhance the building industry’s capacity to evaluate and reduce the environmental impacts of materials and design choices.

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Urban Landscape as an "Art of Survival”: An interview with Kongjian Yu, the Advocate of the Sponge Cities Concept

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His "sponge cities" concept, designed to address and prevent urban flooding in the face of accelerated climate change, was adopted as national policy in China in 2013. In this context, the work of Beijing -based architect Kongjian Yu , founder of the landscape architecture firm Turenscape , has gained international visibility. Read more »

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Ye’s gutted Tadao Ando home is purchased by a crowd-sourced real estate investment startup

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An upstart California property investment venture named Belwood Investments has announced the signing of a purchasing agreement for the Malibu home Tadao Ando designed for Richard Sachs (and later purchased by Kanye West ) in 2013. In a press release , the firm states the deal was made for under $22 million.

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Australian real estate firm buys Ye’s gutted Tadao Ando home

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An upstart Australian real estate venture named Belwood Investments has announced the signing of a purchasing agreement for the Malibu home Tadao Ando designed for Richard Sachs (and later purchased by Kanye West ) in 2013. In a press release , the firm states the deal was made for slightly less than $22 million.