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What Makes a City Resilient?

ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

That shift, in the wake of increasingly unpredictable events, was shaped in part by the Rockefeller Foundation's 100 Resilient Cities program , a six-year, $160 million effort to establish chief resilience officers in cities all over the world.

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Álvaro Siza’s first U.S. building completes in New York City

Archinect

JUNE 1, 2022

New York City-based practice Gabellini Sheppard Associates designed the building’s interiors. Photo: João Morgado Photo: João Morgado Photo: João Morgado In a 2019 NYT interview , the (then) 86-year-old Siza shared his response to winning the commission for 611 W 56th Street.

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Austin becomes largest city in the U.S. to dump parking requirements

Archinect

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Austin on Thursday became the largest city in the country to stop requiring new developments to have a set amount of parking — a move aimed at both fighting climate change and spurring more housing construction amid the city’s affordability crisis. In 2019, the L.A.

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Detroit pitches solar energy plan targeting vacant land across the city

Archinect

JULY 6, 2023

A new plan Mayor Mike Duggan is pitching would fill vacant land in the city, provide clean energy for the city, and give money back to community groups. The plan puts the Motor City squarely in line with Chicago, Cincinnati, Los Angeles , and New York, whose attempt to power 250,000 homes by 2030 is still lagging.

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NYC construction workers injured at the site of architect Erica Tishman's 2019 death as concerns mount

Archinect

MARCH 15, 2022

A collapsing floor injured two workers Monday at a midtown office building where falling exterior work killed a prominent architect in 2019. The accident at 729 Seventh Avenue happened just before 10 a.m. During active demolition work on the 18th floor, part of the floor collapsed, sending two workers dropping to the 17th floor.

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NYC public school students are pushing the city for greener school buildings

Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2024

New York City teens have launched an initiative, born out of a 2019 citywide climate walkout , to urge Mayor Adams to "speed up plans to retrofit school buildings to make them safer, healthier, and more climate-friendly."

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New York City sues Steven Holl Architects over inaccessible Hunters Point Library design

Archinect

MAY 19, 2023

New York City is suing the architects behind the Hunters Point Library for tens of millions of dollars over portions of the structure not being accessible to people with handicaps, in violation of the Americans With Disabilities Act. [.] The city’s lawsuit was filed May 17 in state Supreme Court in Manhattan.

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New York City's congestion pricing program receives federal approval

Archinect

JUNE 27, 2023

Congestion pricing in New York City has cleared its final federal hurdle, officials said on Monday, all but ensuring that the first such program in the nation will begin next year with the aim of reducing traffic and pollution in Manhattan and funding improvements to mass transit.

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House of Quartz / Archisan

ArchDaily

JANUARY 9, 2024

Completed in 2019 in Meguro City, Japan. Images by Koichi Torimura. House of Quartz is an architecture imagined as a crystallization of all living energies. It shines, reflects, and magnifies everyday phenomena to.

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Updated design emerges for BIG’s floating city in Busan, South Korea for OCEANIX

Archinect

APRIL 27, 2022

Further details have been revealed for the design of OCEANIX Busan , described as the “world’s first sustainable floating city.” Image by OCEANIX / Bjarke Ingels Group We first covered the project in 2019, when BIG unveiled the project as a utopian plan for floating cities, sparking extensive debate among our community.

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New York City is testing out new bike lane barriers across three boroughs this summer

Archinect

JUNE 13, 2022

The city is experimenting with new types of bike lane barriers to separate cyclists from traffic ahead of what’s typically a busy summer biking season. The city also recently began deploying Jersey barriers, modular concrete or plastic barriers used to separate traffic, to secure bike lanes.

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Indonesia Plans to Build Its New Capital from the Ground Up to Replace the Sinking City of Jakarta

ArchDaily

JULY 4, 2023

The Indonesian parliament has approved a bill to relocate the capital from the city of Jakarta to a completely new city to be built on the island of Borneo , 1,300 kilometers from the current capital. Image © Om khonjin via WIkipedia under licence CC BY-SA 4.0

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Simple Design Strategies for Extreme Heat

ArchDaily

AUGUST 26, 2024

Image © Cooking Sections, Becoming Xerophile, 2019-2023. Sharjah Architecture Triennial 2019 Anyone who walks during the summer in a city like Boston knows that a significant amount of time is spent charting routes with shade. Cooling our cities and communities is more important than ever. Read more »

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Sanqingshan Geological Museum / UAD

ArchDaily

JANUARY 18, 2024

© Qiang Zhao architects: UAD Location: Sanqing Mountain Scenic Area, Yushan County, Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province, China Project Year: 2019 Photographs: Qiang Zhao Photographs: Ke Yang Area: 6425.0 m2 Read more »

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House in Shirsagi / Buttondesign

ArchDaily

APRIL 10, 2024

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Higashi Tamagawa Apartment Complex / Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects

ArchDaily

JUNE 24, 2024

© Ryogo Utatsu architects: Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects Location: Higashi Tamagawa, Setagaya City, Tokyo, Japan Project Year: 2019 Photographs: Ryogo Utatsu Photographs: Kenta Hasegawa Area: 567.0 m2 Read more »

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Driverless taxis are about to hit Los Angeles. How will Waymo's impact affect the city's changing streetscape?

Archinect

OCTOBER 25, 2022

The company has been mapping Los Angeles using human drivers since 2019. Next, a spokesman said, trained drivers will test out Waymo’s robot taxi service on L.A.-area area highways and neighborhood thoroughfares, with runs downtown, along the Miracle Mile and in Koreatown, Santa Monica and West Hollywood.

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SLAS architekci designs colorful multifunctional public park in Poland

Archinect

JULY 7, 2023

Polish firm SLAS architekci has injected an eye-catching multifunctional public space into a university campus in the southern Polish city of Chorzów. Image © Michał Kopaniszyn The park was completed in 2019 for the University of Silesia. It aimed to promote the university and establish a new green space for the city.

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MAD Completes ‘the Train Station in the Forest,’ Their First Transit-Oriented Development in China

ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Located in the historic city of Jiaxing, 100 kilometers southwest of Shanghai , the project involves the replacement of a dysfunctional station that had stood at the site between 1995 and 2019.

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The Legacy of Brutalism on Morocco’s Post-independence Architectural Landscape

ArchDaily

MARCH 5, 2024

Image © Carl Ha 2019 (CC BY-SA 3.0) These buildings, which can be seen in cities such as Agadir , Casablanca , Tangier, and parts of Marrakesh, represent a dialogue between brutalism and Moroccan culture, environment, and climate. Post Office, Casablanca. Several events have shaped Morocco since its independence. Read more »

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Snøhetta's Shanghai Grand Opera House project nears 2025 completion

Archinect

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Construction of Snøhetta 's Shanghai Grand Opera House is rapidly progressing towards a 2025 completion in the city's Pudong District. The firm, which is working with ECADI locally, won an international competition for its design in 2019. We last updated its progress in October 2023.

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KAGANHOTEL / OHArchitecture

ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Completed in 2019 in Japan. "Hands-on experience art market" - The place, around Tanba station in Kyoto-city, gathers various ingredients and is lined with many wholesale. Images by Atsushi Shiotani.

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Venice Launches Entrance Tickets to Tackle Overtourism During Peak Weekends

ArchDaily

JANUARY 30, 2024

Venice, Italy - February 23 2019 Saint Mark square with crowd before Doges Palace during carnival. Image © Bestravelvideo via Shutterstock Venice authorities have launched a pilot program for their long-term discussed plan to introduce fees for day-trippers visiting the city.

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AO honored with ‘AO Day’ in Orange, California, for 50th anniversary

Archinect

MARCH 28, 2024

Yesterday, March 27th, saw a special celebration of AO (formerly Architects Orange) in the city of Orange, California, in recognition of the 50th anniversary of their founding. The practice was honored by the city and Mayor Dan Slater with "AO Day" in recognition of their award-winning work and dedication to community building locally.

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For sale: One of New York's first skyscrapers

Archinect

MARCH 15, 2023

A protracted battle over control of one of New York City’s most iconic buildings will finally be settled at auction later this month. The city’s landmark first skyscraper, designed by Daniel Burnham and Frederick Dinkelberg has sat empty since publishing house Macmillan left the building for greener pastures of FiDi in early 2019.

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ADU construction is now outpacing single-family developments in Seattle

Archinect

APRIL 10, 2023

The city granted permits to 988 units last year, and more than 650 were built — not all projects are built during the year they get permitted — outpacing the construction of single houses for the first time As the Seattle Times reports, a change in regulations in 2019 led to the ADU boom locally.

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Record-setting 3D printed memorial will light up Super Bowl LVIIl next weekend

Archinect

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

With the presentation of this month’s NFL Super Bowl LVIIl in Las Vegas , a specially-made design constituting the world’s tallest free-standing 3D printed structure will also be on display inside Allegiant Stadium courtesy of the Kansas City tandem MANICA Architecture and fabrication firm Dimensional Innovations (DI).

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Viver Quartier Residential Complex / parte arquitetura

ArchDaily

AUGUST 21, 2024

Completed in 2019 in Pelotas, Brazil. The residential complex is located in a neighborhood designed by the office of architect Jaime Lerner in an urban void in the city of Pelotas, Rio. Images by Lucas Daneris.

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Notre Dame Cathedral Rebuilds Timber Roof and Regains Spire

ArchDaily

AUGUST 31, 2023

Image via Shutterstock | O.Kemppainen On April 15, 2019, a devastating fire occurred at the infamous Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris , France. The fire caused significant damage to the historic structure, which is a landmark in the city and a symbol of French Gothic architecture.

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Athens Plans to Grow Its Metro Infrastructure by a Third to Reduce Automobile Traffic

ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Athens Old Town, Attica/ Greece - 12 28 2019: People walking through the main connection hall of the Syntagma underground metro. Image © Werner Lerooy via Shutterstock The project for implementing a fourth metro line in the Greek capital began in 2021, with the purpose of reducing the need for automobiles in the crowded city.

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Craftsmanship Made Architecture: The Chaki Wasi Project by La Cabina de la Curiosidad

ArchDaily

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Image © JAG Studio Marie Combette and Daniel Moreno Flores founded La Cabina de la Curiosidad in 2019, a studio focused on architecture and territory based in Quito, Ecuador. Chaki Wasi, Artisanal Center of the Shalalá Community / La Cabina de la Curiosidad. Read more »

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Venice to begin seeking €5 daily admission fees from tourists

Archinect

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

USD) daily entrance fee to tourists has been granted to the city, giving officials the final go-ahead for a response they say is ultimately necessary to preserve its architectural heritage from the threats of climate change and overcrowding. The ability for Venice to charge a nominal €5 ($5.35

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Foster + Partners sues in India for missed payments related to the scrapped Amaravati master plan

Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2022

The UK Architects’ Journal is reporting that the suit was brought against the state-run Amaravati Metropolitan Region Development Authority (AMRDA) over their repeated inability to respond to payment requests from Foster + Partners that date to 2019.

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The Vessel to reopen with improved safety measures

Archinect

APRIL 15, 2024

The Vessel has announced it will again be open to visitors in New York City later this year after upgraded anti-suicide safety measures are installed in response to a spate of tragedies that have befallen its existence since being inaugurated in March of 2019.

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Developer behind SHoP-designed The Brooklyn Tower is facing foreclosure on $240 million loan

Archinect

APRIL 4, 2024

Michael Stern, the developer of SHoP ’s new The Brooklyn Tower (also known by its address at 9 Dekalb Avenue ), is facing foreclosure over a failure to pay a $240 million loan that was extended by Silverstein Properties in 2019 to complete the 93-story project, according to reports from The Real Deal.

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Conference Hall in Niumatang / Atelier RenTian

ArchDaily

AUGUST 8, 2023

© Atelier RenTia architects: Atelier RenTian Location: Niumatang village, Shangxing Town, Liyang City, Changzhou, China, 213363 Project Year: 2019 Photographs: Atelier RenTia Photographs: Inter_mountain images Area: 304.0 m2 Read more »

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San Francisco might tax empty homes to fund affordable housing

Archinect

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People living in San Francisco may be given the opportunity to vote on a proposal to tax vacant homes in the city. The proposal, filed with city officials this month, seeks to address a chronic shortage of housing in San Francisco by encouraging landlords to either rent or sell vacant units.

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Thompson Center may find new life as Google's Chicago office

Archinect

JULY 4, 2022

Thompson Center in Chicago in a deal that could provide a much-needed boost to the city’s Loop business district. Google is negotiating to buy the spaceship-like James R. The Mountain View, California-based tech giant is seeking to buy the Helmut Jahn-designed building at 100 W. Randolph St.,

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Nearly 1 in 4 workplace deaths in New York occur in construction

Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Construction work in New York — city and statewide — remains the most deadly profession in the country. A total of 41 laborers died on the job in New York state in 2020, a decrease from 2019. However, fewer workers climbed scaffolding and pounded nails during the pandemic, so the rate of deaths still rose.

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Closed school buildings offer a silver lining through adaptive reuse nationwide

Archinect

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Amid the backdrop of a national trend of tumbling enrollments, brutal pandemic-era learning losses and an ongoing flight of young families from urban centers, the dilemma of how to repurpose empty schools is that many cities face. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 2,200 public schools closed from 2019 to 2022.

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Four winners selected for TRANSFER Architecture Video Award

Archinect

MARCH 13, 2024

Organizers share: "The TRANSFER Architecture Video Award is an international biennial prize launched in 2019, to recognize the most innovative short films in the field of architecture, city or landscape.

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University of Kansas names Mahbub Rashid as new dean of the School of Architecture & Design

Archinect

MAY 9, 2022

Rashid has been serving as interim dean of the school since 2019, and will now oversee the school’s 1,000 students and 60 faculty and staff. The post was previously held by Mahesh Daas , who in 2019 co-wrote and edited a book on the future of robotic architecture.

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This Grimshaw-designed pedestrian bridge will link to Toulouse's new 'green lung' island park

Archinect

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The bridge is one of two bridges that will serve to better connect pedestrians and cyclists to the rejuvenated Ile de Ramier, the new “green lung” for the city within the river Garonne. Called LIFE Green Heart, the project aims to revegetate and develop the biodiversity of the island as a means of combating climate change.

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Heatherwick Studio details progress on Toranomon-Azabudai district in Tokyo

Archinect

MAY 15, 2023

The studio devised a pergola-like facade system in order to give the construction a distinctive visual character while adding a “vibrant piece of urban topography” to the city’s patchwork commercial Minato Ward area. The project broke ground in August of 2019. Tokyo’s Mori Building Company is the client.

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What Makes a City Resilient?

Álvaro Siza’s first U.S. building completes in New York City

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Austin becomes largest city in the U.S. to dump parking requirements

Detroit pitches solar energy plan targeting vacant land across the city

NYC construction workers injured at the site of architect Erica Tishman's 2019 death as concerns mount

NYC public school students are pushing the city for greener school buildings

New York City sues Steven Holl Architects over inaccessible Hunters Point Library design

New York City's congestion pricing program receives federal approval

House of Quartz / Archisan

Updated design emerges for BIG’s floating city in Busan, South Korea for OCEANIX

New York City is testing out new bike lane barriers across three boroughs this summer

Indonesia Plans to Build Its New Capital from the Ground Up to Replace the Sinking City of Jakarta

Simple Design Strategies for Extreme Heat

Sanqingshan Geological Museum / UAD

House in Shirsagi / Buttondesign

Higashi Tamagawa Apartment Complex / Tomoyuki Kurokawa Architects

Driverless taxis are about to hit Los Angeles. How will Waymo's impact affect the city's changing streetscape?

SLAS architekci designs colorful multifunctional public park in Poland

MAD Completes ‘the Train Station in the Forest,’ Their First Transit-Oriented Development in China

The Legacy of Brutalism on Morocco’s Post-independence Architectural Landscape

Snøhetta's Shanghai Grand Opera House project nears 2025 completion

KAGANHOTEL / OHArchitecture

Venice Launches Entrance Tickets to Tackle Overtourism During Peak Weekends

AO honored with ‘AO Day’ in Orange, California, for 50th anniversary

For sale: One of New York's first skyscrapers

ADU construction is now outpacing single-family developments in Seattle

Record-setting 3D printed memorial will light up Super Bowl LVIIl next weekend

Viver Quartier Residential Complex / parte arquitetura

Notre Dame Cathedral Rebuilds Timber Roof and Regains Spire

Athens Plans to Grow Its Metro Infrastructure by a Third to Reduce Automobile Traffic

Craftsmanship Made Architecture: The Chaki Wasi Project by La Cabina de la Curiosidad

Venice to begin seeking €5 daily admission fees from tourists

Foster + Partners sues in India for missed payments related to the scrapped Amaravati master plan

The Vessel to reopen with improved safety measures

Developer behind SHoP-designed The Brooklyn Tower is facing foreclosure on $240 million loan

Conference Hall in Niumatang / Atelier RenTian

San Francisco might tax empty homes to fund affordable housing

Thompson Center may find new life as Google's Chicago office

Nearly 1 in 4 workplace deaths in New York occur in construction

Closed school buildings offer a silver lining through adaptive reuse nationwide

Four winners selected for TRANSFER Architecture Video Award

University of Kansas names Mahbub Rashid as new dean of the School of Architecture & Design

This Grimshaw-designed pedestrian bridge will link to Toulouse's new 'green lung' island park

Heatherwick Studio details progress on Toranomon-Azabudai district in Tokyo

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