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Reimagining Resilient Cities: Norman Foster Foundation Unveils Kharkiv Housing Challenge Winners

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Image Courtesy of Kharkiv Housing Challenge In response to the conflict in Ukraine , in 2022, Ihor Terekhov, the Mayor of Kharkiv , asked Norman Foster to lead the masterplan for the city's reconstruction. The competition drew 259 entries from 53 countries, including 27 submissions from Ukraine.

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From Sydney’s Urban Revival to Dubai’s Waterfront Towers: Architecture Now Highlights from Foster + Partners, Beta Realities, and More

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These projects, announced between late September 2024 and early 2025, focus on transformative masterplans , housing solutions , and public spaces. In Sydney , fjcstudio's masterplan for Midtown aims to reshape the city's urban core with two 80-storey mixed-use towers, enhancing connectivity and public engagement.

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Sasaki Reimagines Oman’s Second-Largest City with a New Waterfront Masterplan

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Image Courtesy of Sasaki Salalah is Oman 's largest logistics port and its second-largest city. Located within a two-hour flight from Dubai and a 90-minute flight from Muscat , the city attracted over one million tourists in 2024. Read more

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King's Cross masterplan brings part of the city "back into an entirely new use"

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This video spotlights the King's Cross masterplan by Allies and Morrison and Porphyrios Associates, which is one of six projects shortlisted for this year's RIBA Stirling Prize. A piece of city is never finished, it will always have to reinvent itself," said Allies. "We

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Dubai to be transformed into pedestrian-friendly city with two-kilometre elevated walkway

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Dubai ruler Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum has approved the Dubai Walk masterplan to add 6,500 kilometres of pedestrian walkways to the city, including an elevated air-conditioned looped path. The masterplan aims to build 3,300 kilometres of new paths and renovate 2,300 kilometres of existing walkways by 2040.

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Stockholm Wood City: Masterplanning The World’s Largest Timber Construction Project

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With ground set to be broken next year on the first stages of the monumental development and the first structures set to welcome tenants from 2027, the company is master-planning a small city in Sickla, Stockholm. This is fascinating, but it’s Wood City’s fundamental raison d’être that really intrigues.

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Liquid City: A Radical New Masterplan in Rotterdam Embraces the River for Resilience

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After docklands moved west towards, and now into, the North Sea, a new district has sprung up in this corner of Rotterdam, extending the city center. The scheme is just one of several remarkable undertakings by the municipality of Rotterdam, transforming how the city interacts with its riverfront.