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Celebrate John Portman's 100th birthday with an exclusive film screening

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Today, December 4th, would have been the 100th birthday of architect and developer John Portman. For fans of the hotel atrium grandmaster who died in 2017 at 93 , Chicago-based MAS Context has arranged a digital screening of John Portman: A Life of Building , a film directed by Ben Loeterman. Want even more Portman birthday exclusives?

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Leading Architects Become Harvard Alums with this Executive Development Program

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The intensive one-year program with five weeks spent on campus brings participants into contact with industry leaders from around the world via on-campus sessions, site visits, and project-based learning, culminating in graduates being granted Harvard alumni status. This article features insights from three program alumni, Trusted Inc.

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Zaha Hadid Architects skyscraper nears completion on world's most expensive site

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The Henderson skyscraper by Zaha Hadid Architects is nearing completion The site at 2 Murray Road was reportedly the world's most expensive plot when it was purchased by developer Henderson Land in 2017, coming in at £764,000 per square metre. The photography is by Jennifer Hahn.

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"We don't want to develop like Europe" says Suriname's architect minister

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One thing that attracted me to take this role is that Suriname is a developing country – we're in the beginning stage of everything that has to do with buildings, with infrastructure." "So A former Dutch colony, its development has been stunted by several bouts of political turmoil since it gained independence in 1975.

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RCR Arquitectes debuts 'ultra-thin' Muraba Veil residential tower in Dubai

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The fifth collaboration between the 2017 Pritzker Prize winner and developer Muraba, the Muraba Veil, was announced this month for a site overlooking the canal in the city of 3.6 A unique new residential skyscraper in Dubai from RCR Arquitectes will be built to the width of just a single 22.5

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"Modest and pioneering" Hackney council housing wins 2024 Neave Brown Award

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British architecture studio Al-Jawad Pike has won this year's Neave Brown Award for Housing for Chowdury Walk, a council housing development in Hackney, London. Comprised of 11 terraced houses, seven of which are available for social rent, the development was built between two existing terraces on a plot that previously used as garages.

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News: A travelogue of global carbon capture sites wins RIBA's 2022 Norman Foster Travelling Scholarship

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Sapherson's successful 2022 proposal, "Zero: direct air capture infrastructure and the future of zero carbon societies," shifts the focus to sustainability methods and entails the documentation of six in-development Direct Air Capture sites plotted on a two-month global sea and rail journey between Europe to the United States.

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