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Doubletalk on Double Site

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Photo © Mary Miss, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation. The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) called attention to the project’s deterioration as early as 2014, leading to a 2015 restoration. “It That lack of cognizance matches the decade of neglect Double Site suffered after 2015. That never happened.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

In 2015, she founded the architecture studio LANZA Atelier, along with Alessandro Arienzo. From 2015 to 2017, Abascal was the Executive Director of LIGA, Espacio para Arquitectura, a platform dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of Latin American architecture. She is also a 2022 Graham Foundation Grantee.

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Straw-bale Construction

Santa Cruz Architect

Between 1896 and 1945, an estimated 70 straw-bale buildings, including houses, farm buildings, churches, schools, offices, and grocery stores had been built in the Sandhills. To combat this, builders began plastering their bale structures; if cement or lime stucco was unavailable, locally obtained “gumbo mud” was employed.

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Still no basis to leave plaza

Architecture Here and There

So instead of sticking with the decades-old tried and true, downtown advocates such as the Providence Foundation and Grow Smart RI now propose a whole new ballgame, popping in from far left field. The column below, “Presto chango bus hub idea!” ” from Nov. Most riders believe the bus hub should remain in the plaza.

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Part 2: Reanimating Woodward Avenue's Street-cars: The M1 Rail Project

A Detroit Architect's Journal

Known at the M1 light-rail project, the estimated $137 million dollar project will place a fixed-rail streetcar system within Woodward avenue's median and organize 11 stops between Grand Boulevard and Congress Street. Construction from Adams Street south to Congress Street is scheduled for June through August 2015. earthquake.

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Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?

Dwell

Some estimates show that more than 76,000 units are unoccupied and that 30,000 to 60,000 units have been converted to short-term rentals. A 2015 ordinance allowed accessory dwelling units to be built on any single-family lot on O‘ahu. It’s a perfect place to park money.

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A Miracle on Lexington Street?

Community Architect Daily

Sparse info can be found on the agenda for the Board of Estimates. Then it would also become finally time for the Weinberg Foundation to act on the land they cleared on the north side of Lexington Street in 2010. The project is said to cost more than a $100 million and supposed to be realized in phases.