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Gulliver DOX Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague

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The load-bearing wooden structure of the zeppelin is suspended by, and anchored to, a tilted steel-truss bridge, which also simultaneously serves as a load-bearing foundation for the interior wooden flooring of the zeppelin. Completion date: 2016. Awards: Public Interior of the Year / award 2016. Architect and author: HAMR Hu?

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"The Vessel shows us how bad the vampiric ultra-wealthy are at making public space"

Deezen

Someone at minimum would have pointed out the suicide risks, like former Architect's Newspaper associate editor Audrey Wachs, who predicted them in 2016. Across the East River in Brooklyn, nearly a decade of meetings – almost 300 – resulted in a fully public-financed Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) that is well-attended and well-liked.

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Los Angeles Is Giving Away Plans for a Pre-Approved ADU

Dwell

The building’s foundation was designed for conditions that Alden calls "the worst case scenario"—a site with clay soil that expands with water contact—which was stamped and approved by the city. The plans have also been reviewed and plan-checked.

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Banking on Borrowed Land

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Land banks and land trusts have overlapping missions—stewarding land—but different frameworks and financing. Kimberly Gleffe served the River Revitalization Foundation (RRF), an accredited land trust in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as executive director for 20 years before transitioning to a role in philanthropy last year. “I

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2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award

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. • Jane Pavitt (Head of Research and Learning, Zaha Hadid Foundation, UK). The £10,000 Annie Spink Award is financed by the Annie Spink Trust Fund, which was established in 1974 by architect Herbert Spink FRIBA. Professor Christine Hawley wins 2016 award. RIBA Events – Archive. RIBA Event London – Archive.

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The Downcity Plan, II

Architecture Here and There

A proposal in late 2016 to build three residential towers of thirty-four, forty-four and fifty-five floors on the vacant Route 195 land raised hopes that there might indeed be a big market for living in or near downtown – predictably, however, they were way out of scale, way out of place and way out of character for Providence.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Iturbide Studio is the kind of project architects dream about. Céline Semaan.