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MSG Developer Officially Withdraws Plans for Sphere in London

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Image Courtesy of The Madison Square Garden Company Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG), the developer behind the recently opened The Sphere at the Venetian Resort in Las Vegas , has announced that plans for a similar project in London have been withdrawn for lack of support from London’s planning officials, as reported by The Guardian.

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

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Image © CreatAR MAD Architects has announced the completion of the Jiaxing Train Station, the first transportation infrastructure project developed by the architecture office. As China has developed significantly in terms of urbanization, its train stations have grown into complicated, widespread, and uninviting infrastructures.

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Plans for London’s Sphere are no more as developers abandon project

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The developers behind the proposed MSG Sphere in London have withdrawn plans for the project. In a letter to the UK government’s Planning Inspectorate, developers Madison Square Garden Entertainment (MSG) said that the scheme had become “merely a political football between rival parties.”

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ADU construction is now outpacing single-family developments in Seattle

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

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

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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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Following a Frank Gehry overhaul, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is hiring an exhibition designer

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Specific tasks may include managing the design and documentation process for exhibitions, creating technical drawings and models of objects and spaces, and developing schedules for construction and object installation. The museum's North Entrance, for the first time in decades, was restored to public use in 2019.

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