Archinect

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The next chapter in New York’s Hudson Yards has been revealed, with developers filing a bid for a potential mixed-use casino complex. The proposed site is currently occupied by the West Side Yard and would see the Hudson Yards development expand west, separated from the Hudson River only by 12th Avenue.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The 15-minute city concept has repeatedly made the news this year. What are 15-minute cities? The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept that, as its name suggests, aims to create communities where people can access key amenities by travelling no more than 15 minutes on foot or by bike. Who invented the 15-minute city?

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. Sherbro Alliance Partners, which is co-ordinating the masterplan, has enlisted energy company Octopus to develop a strategy for electricity generation based on wind power.

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Architectural Record

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The Portland, Oregon-based developer with degrees in environmental systems, city planning, and landscape architecture launched her own development firm, Adre, in 2020 to serve BIPOC communities.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The second most valuable company in the world, Amazon has been gobbling up space throughout the southeast corner of the city, taking advantage of zoning meant to preserve blue-collar jobs in a market in which housing and office space have typically generated higher revenues.

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The Spaces

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

A city’s ability to entice talent is one of the most powerful driving forces behind its success. According to the World Economic Forum’s 2020 Future of Jobs report , forecasts for labour evolution between 2020 and 2025 predict that around 85 million jobs will be automated by next year, but 97 million new roles will have emerged.

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Archinect

JUNE 8, 2023

” The transformation seeks to invigorate the Jaguars franchise and spur the development of the city of Jacksonville. Rendering courtesy of HOK Work towards a long-term stadium solution began in July 2020 with a thorough engineering assessment of the current stadium.

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Archinect

MARCH 20, 2024

SOM has unveiled the newly completed Star River Headquarters project in Guangzhou, China, which it says is emblematic of the city’s late transformation into a national destination for trade and cultural tourism.

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Deezen

MAY 13, 2024

Skyscrapers get a bad rap but are crucial to the success of cities , writes economics professor Jason Barr. Height limits eventually fell by the wayside as cities realised they caused more harm than good Around the turn of the 20th century, cities frequently banned skyscrapers. The fundamental answer is markets.

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Archinect

JULY 14, 2024

The crisis of housing in New York City isn't going anywhere soon: The latest data from a key city agency has revealed a pronounced stalemate in the number of new apartment buildings currently planned for construction in all five boroughs. The Regional Plan.

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Archinect

AUGUST 23, 2023

The maintenance of urban tree canopies is one of utmost importance to planners in the fight against heat and subsequent efforts to make cities into effective carbon stores that are dually resilient against climate change while improving public health and well-being overall.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 1, 2023

In 2020, in the midst of the first wave of lockdowns due to the pandemic, the municipality of Amsterdam announced its strategy for recovering from this crisis by embracing the concept of the “Doughnut Economy.” With the help of Raworth, Amsterdam has downscaled this approach to the size of a city. The Whale / de Architekten Cie.

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e-architect

JUNE 8, 2023

Gemini Splendor’s advantageous location in Mohammed Bin Rashid City offers easy access to Dubai’s key landmarks, including Downtown Dubai, Dubai Mall, and Dubai International Financial Centre, linking it to the surrounding community and providing for professionals and families.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A planner from Edmonton , Canada, has defended its 15-minute city plan after criticism from locals, saying that the plan uses age-old concepts and "will enable the City of Edmonton to support growth more efficiently". Cities are embracing the 15-minute city idea because it is an easy way to explain an old concept."

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Deezen

MARCH 22, 2023

The City of New York has released an updated version of its unofficial emblem – Milton Glaser 's iconic "I NY" logo – as part of a citywide campaign to "inspire optimism and civic action" post-pandemic. All images courtesy of Graham Clifford and the New York State Departm.ent of Economic Development.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

In recent months, as rumors of China’s economic crisis have spread, the images that seem to interest people the most are photographs of China’s so-called “ghost cities” — urban developments that are eerily under-occupied. The city of Ordos isn’t exactly empty, but it feels that way. But what do these images signify?

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Deezen

JUNE 18, 2024

We're highlighting 10 designers working with different materials and styles in Mexico City as the latest part of our North American Design 2024 series, which highlights independent designers across the continent. Read on for 10 independent design studios at different points in their careers working in Mexico City today.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 6, 2022

In our April 2020 coverage of the project, construction of the mega development was underway. Two years later, the development's 700,000-square-meter (7.5-million-square-foot) Located within the historic city of Quzhou, 258.6 million-square-foot) centerpiece emerges. Courtesy of MAD Architects.

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Archinect

MARCH 24, 2022

The Urban Design Forum and Van Alen Institute have announced a new cycle of Neighborhoods Now, their initiative launched in the Spring of 2020 that pairs leading architecture, design, economic development, legal, and planning firms with local New York City organizations to help drive their communities’ pandemic recovery.

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Brandon Donnelly

JULY 10, 2022

Here is an interesting chart from the WSJ showing how much net income migrated to the state of Florida between 2019 and 2020: I’m not sure what the exact dates are for this dataset, but it seems to again suggest that this migration was already a trend before the pandemic happened. I’m getting nervous.”.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The Still Room concept developed by Antwerp-based Studio Corkinho imagines a type of room where people go specifically to enjoy the benefits of silence. Studio Corkinho created its first still room in Antwerp in 2020. We've developed a movement towards silence in our city," Etienne said.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

If passed, the Efficient and Green Mobility package would require the 424 largest cities in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to hash out sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) centred on these kinds of "active mobility" modes by 2025. Read: London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians.

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BD+C

OCTOBER 28, 2024

A case for mid-rise: How multifamily housing can reshape our cities 0 qpurcell Mon, 10/28/2024 - 11:01 Multifamily Housing Often referred to as “five-over-ones,” the mid-rise apartment type is typically comprised of five stories of apartments on top of a concrete “podium” of ground-floor retail. At the end of 2020, the U.S.

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Archinect

JANUARY 3, 2023

Previously on Archinect: Lesley Lokko chosen as curator for 2023 Venice Biennale Architecture Exhibition Lokko was joined by fellow architect Indy Johar, co-founder of Dark Matter Labs , a nonprofit strategic design and development company, who was awarded an MBE for his services to architecture. Indy Johar.

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Archinect

MAY 9, 2022

On the east side of Downtown Los Angeles, a pair of orange tower cranes have arrived at 520 Mateo Street, future site of a mixed-use development from Carmel Partners which is set to become the first high-rise building in the Arts District. Previously: How L.A. The company has since paid a $1.2 million fine to resolve its involvement.

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BD+C

JANUARY 9, 2020

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is recognizing four projects with its 2020 Regional & Urban Design Awards. The 2020 Regional & Urban Design program recognizes the best in urban design, regional and city planning and community development.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Urban regeneration takes many forms, from reimagining structures after deindustrialization to developing creative schemes for districts that have deteriorated without vision or investment. Across the world, many cities are planning, investing and evolving to meet the needs of their residents. Taitung, Taiwan.

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2022

While highlighting fellowships has been a regular editorial topic on Archinect, we developed a special series (starting in 2018) to understand what these positions offer for both the fellows themselves and the discipline at large by presenting their work and experiences through an in-depth interview. Louis where he received his B.S.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 22, 2024

"We hope that it will continue to deliver the experience we originally envisioned as a unique place for exploration and a one-of-a-kind take on the city of New York." A long-awaited return for a New York City attraction: the Vessel at Hudson Yards reopens TODAY after more than three years.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Founded by architect Ma Yansong in 2004, MAD Architects has become renowned for its developments of various scales and typologies across China and beyond, encompassing museums, concert halls, urban complexes, and housing developments.

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Archinect

MARCH 31, 2022

An exciting birthday gift is underway in the Charm City as Kohn Pedersen Fox has finally broken ground on a new headquarters for T. Overall, the total development takes up 3 million square feet when factoring in its 9.5 Rowe Price in the company’s hometown of Baltimore 85 years after its founding. acres of open space.

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ArchiDiaries

JUNE 13, 2022

The aim of the “Meta-City” competition is to develop one drawing to communicate a conceptual design. This is a competition where you develop your communication, designer, and space thinker skills. About Competition.

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Archinect

APRIL 3, 2023

Enigma Square is a new, £63m, BTR residential scheme from Grainger , the UK’s largest listed residential landlord, and encompasses 261 purpose-designed rental homes in a central Milton Keynes development on a site that once housed a YMCA.

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2022

Left as a mere hole in the ground, the site was acquired in 2014 by developer Related Midwest with a proposal to build two sister luxury apartment towers. Previously on Archinect: 1,100-unit SOM towers in Chicago head toward construction The SOM -designed project received city approval in 2020 but was delayed due to the pandemic.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over that time he has served as an architect, planner, educator, and an advisor to cities in and beyond the US, including Charleston, South Carolina, Omaha, and New York City, where he was Director of Urban Design in the Department of City Planning.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Saudi Arabia 's capital Riyadh has won the competition to host the 2030 World Expo, becoming the second Middle Eastern city to host the international event after Dubai in 2020. Other cities bidding to host the event, which takes place every five years, were Rome in Italy and Busan in South Korea. The photo is by Tom Ravenscroft.

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Deezen

MAY 9, 2024

Saudi forces were cleared to use "lethal force" to remove those resisting relocation to make way for The Line mega city as part of Neom in Saudi Arabia , according to a report by UK media organisation the BBC. According to the Saudi government, 6,000 people have been relocated to make way for the Neom development.

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