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Monterrey, Mexico is the latest city to employ a full-time Chief Heat Officer

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The city of Monterrey, in the Mexican state of Nuevo Leon, recently announced architect and urban planner Surella Segú as the first-ever head of its new civic office, which is being funded through a partnership with the Atlantic Council’s Adrienne Arsht-Rockefeller Foundation Resilience Center (Arsht-Rock).

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Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

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Spiralling developer debt and stalling projects After a long period of booming urban development, China's property industry is in turmoil, with developers struggling under spiralling debt and construction projects grinding to a halt. The number of staff in the department has halved from 600 in 2018 to 300 now.

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HUD Finds Discrimination in Chicago’s Public Housing Development

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) detailed the findings of a recent probe into the city’s affordable housing development practices. According to the Sun-Times, HUD found that the city has wrongly denied the development of new affordable housing through the tool of "aldermanic prerogative."

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Architects and critics call for deadly LA fires to "trigger a rethink" in development practices

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Massive fires have happened in the area as recently as 2018 when the Woolsey Fire tore through parts of Malibu. Some believe that locals need to rethink how development goes forward altogether, focusing more on acknowledging fire-prone areas and building densely. Architecture cannot solve this problem," he wrote. "In

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Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

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It includes high-rise office buildings by HKS "The project aligns with Austin's larger objectives of sustainable urban development, economic growth, and community engagement, including reimagining the 40-block area surrounding the Capitol building," the team said. "It & Elec. Master AE Team), CNG (Plumbing Master AE Team), Jose I.

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Five key projects by architect and Dezeen Awards judge Francine Houben

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She is currently overseeing a diverse range of projects spanning cultural, educational, residential, and urban developments. "We believe in the power of design to positively impact communities and the environment, striving for innovation, sustainability, and social relevance in all our projects."

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Seven Parisian brutalist buildings that illustrate the movement's "level of experimentation"

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The book covers a range of building types and scales, from large urban developments to intimate living spaces and brutalist projects that have now been converted. "I Author Wilson was drawn to Paris's examples of brutalist architecture because of its diversity of styles and approaches to building.

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