Deezen

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Collaborating with the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) of Dubai, The Boring Company entered a memorandum of understanding to build a 17-kilometre pilot tunnel as the first phase of the Dubai Loop project. "I The post Elon Musk's Boring Company to build transport tunnel "like a wormhole" in Dubai appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The latest analysis from the Kyiv School of Economics (KSE) on the cost of direct damage to Ukraine's buildings and infrastructure since the beginning of the Russian military invasion of the country puts the estimate at $127 billion. billion.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Now that girl — as well as the historic building in the downtown fashion district that serves as her canvas — is for sale to the highest bidder. The historic 26,000-square-foot Downtown Los Angeles building was purchased for $4 million three years prior to the popular documentary's premiere and underwent a $1.8

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Archinect

MARCH 19, 2024

Chinese state-owned construction contractor will build China’s largest soccer park in Guangzhou on the site where struggling Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group was supposed to build its soccer stadium.

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Archinect

JULY 20, 2023

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) has named Skyscraper Museum founder Carol Willis and atelier ten founder Parick Bellew as this year’s winners of the Lynn S. And there is perhaps no one more well-versed in the integration of environmental and building systems with architecture than Patrick Bellew.

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Archinect

AUGUST 10, 2022

LEVER Architecture ’s 843 N Spring Street is nearing completion as new images have been released depicting its glass curtain wall going up on the hybrid mass timber office building. Joining the building’s office space is 7,000 square feet of street-level and second-floor retail space.

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Deezen

JANUARY 27, 2025

White Arkitekter 's Sara Kulturhus in Sweden is next in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings series, after bringing one of the world's tallest timber buildings to the small subarctic city of Skellefte. When I saw the competition proposal, I didn't think it would be possible to build," he told the Guardian.

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Archinect

JULY 29, 2022

“Historically, spec buildings have been risky, but in a market environment like we are in now, where there is a race to get goods to people faster and to manufacture more things, the flexibility of the spec space becomes an asset, not a liability.”

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ArchDaily

JULY 7, 2023

As data from the United Nations also estimates an annual population growth rate of 0.7% , the country’s built environment is set to interact with a new discourse of demography and present its own perspective on how to build for billions.

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in 2020, Brian Potter came up with estimates for the entire US building stock. Interestingly enough, he determined that about 90% of buildings in the US are single-family homes. This is what the US builds and continues to build, by a long shot. I think that seems like a lot. Images: FT

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ArchDaily

MARCH 29, 2023

According to data from the World Bank, it is estimated that 1 billion people –equivalent to 15% of the world's population– live with some type of disability. Disabilities are more than a condition; they are a way of living according to human diversity that requires architectural solutions of equivalent multiplicity.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 19, 2025

Restraint, be damned: SoFi Stadium, which cost an estimated $6 billion to construct (photo by Troutfarm27 - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, [link] The seductiveness of "more, more, more" is easy to understand. This ethos extends beyond individual buildings to the broader urban environment.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

In coming years, a significant number of greater Los Angeles' estimated 20 million people will move inland to desert regions. Built with strawbales, which lend themselves to the curved form, and other natural insulation like blown in cellulose and lava rock, this building creates a refuge.

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2024

Building permits and construction starts for residential projects in the United States declined by approximately 10% in 2023 versus 2022, according to new data by the U.S. An estimated 1,469,800 housing units were authorized by building permits in 2023, which is 11.7% Census Bureau. lower than in 2022. In December 2023, the U.S.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Gensler Principal Steven Paynter shares an update announcing important statistical findings related to his firm’s work surrounding the adaptive reuse and conversion of office buildings worldwide. The firm shares that an estimate of only 25% of buildings (from Gensler's original assessment) are suitable for conversion.

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Archinect

MAY 31, 2024

Led by SOM Partners Adam Semel and Scott Duncan in collaboration with Burj Khalifa ’s structural engineer Bill Baker, the initiative will be the first such technology to integrate gravity-based energy storage technology within the superstructure of tall buildings, enabling a carbon payback within accelerated 3–4 year timeframes.

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Archinect

JULY 12, 2024

"Construction costs are exceeding even the most pragmatic estimate," the owner of a large Seattle-based architecture firm shared in our survey. Clients are telling me that it is getting harder and harder to build and that costs show no sign of slowing down," another NYC architect working at a large firm told us.

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SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 7, 2024

The latest is the new Health Professions Building (HPB) for Lane Community College. For all intents and purposes, we have functioned as a single office on the Health Professions Building project rather than as two separate firms. These metrics were: The degree to which the new building succeeds as a tool for teaching and learning.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 17, 2025

According to the World Bank , 56% of the population currently lives in urban environments, and it is estimated that by 2050 this number will reach 70%.

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Archinect

MAY 13, 2024

“The idea is to preserve what’s great about it and make it better,” Pelli said of the building. ” Chief of among the estimated $60 million renovation tasks is the work of replacing the building’s over 6,000 original windows, which Rafael Pelli says will now be double pane for improved insulation against the heat.

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Archinect

JUNE 15, 2024

Duplantier is involved in the preparatory reconstruction of Izium, where he says 80% of all buildings have been ‘damaged.’ ’ As per the most recent World Economic Forum reports, the estimated cost of rebuilding the country’s infrastructure and built environment is $486 billion.

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Archinect

JANUARY 9, 2023

Now the algorithm he spearheaded collapses the survey process — which must be conducted to determine whether a commercial building can be turned into apartments — from months to hours. And then, actually, the demand for the remaining office buildings goes up, because you're creating scarcity by taking some out of the market."

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Archinect

JUNE 1, 2022

It also includes a provision that all newly-constructed buildings be emissions-free, a requirement it first adopted for all municipal properties in 2020. Raman’s motion echoes that of many other cities in the state as well as a recent proposal to phase out non-electric car sales by the year 2035.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Architecture 2030 ’s new CARE (Carbon Avoided Retrofit Estimator) Tool is a way of providing valuable statistics that show the carbon savings of each project accurately and using a standardized methodology.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

The report’s authors claim their study of recovery timelines following recent wildfires in Hawaii, Colorado, and Northern California indicated that the issuance of new building permits will, alongside the debris removals process, most likely push into the end of the decade.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, 885 buildings in Irpin have been destroyed, while 12,000 have been damaged. 119 high-rise apartment buildings have sustained significant damage, as have 1,483 private homes, resulting in 16,358 residents being left homeless.

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Archinect

JULY 12, 2024

"Construction costs are exceeding even the most pragmatic estimate," the owner of a large Seattle-based architecture firm shared in our survey. Clients are telling me that it is getting harder and harder to build and that costs show no sign of slowing down," another NYC architect working at a large firm told us.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The World Bank estimates the total physical damage in Turkey to be approximately $34.2 All told, there were at least 173,000 structures destroyed or damaged across Turkey as a result of the outmoded building codes and blatant corruption within the construction industry. The city centre of Antakya [.]

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Archinect

JANUARY 14, 2022

“We know that roughly 70% of the buildings that exist today will exist in 2050,” Martha Campbell, the president of an energy nonprofit called RMI told FastCompany. our estimates are that we need to hit a retrofit rate between 4% and 6%.” “And if we’re going to hit net zero by 2050.

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Archinect

MAY 21, 2024

billion Bronx project were announced along with an intention to use a design-build approach to "speed up" construction along an accelerated track. The total cost of replacing Rikers Island , which has turned into a human rights eyesore, is estimated at under $15.5 DeMatteis Construction Corp. for the $3.9 in Mott Haven.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There are now over 230 schools and colleges listed on the government’s register of buildings under consideration for Raac replacement and repair. Parents like shiny new buildings, and Raac definitely isn’t helping our reputation.” billion (or about $2.81 billion USD) annually at present.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2022

A 2019 report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments indicated that the area needs to bring online at least 325,000 units before the end of the decade in order to match rising demands , making its estimated 157.9 The up-for-grabs Victor Building near downtown. Image courtesy Brookfield Properties.

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Archinect

APRIL 11, 2024

The five boroughs are home to more than 200,000 multifamily buildings made with un-reinforced brick and built from the mid-1800s to the 1930s, according to a city hazard plan. A strong earthquake could cause some buildings of this type to collapse. magnitude tri-state quake wasn’t nearly as strong as the (estimated) 5.5

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Archinect

DECEMBER 27, 2023

There are now over 230 schools and colleges listed on the government’s register of buildings under consideration for Raac replacement and repair. Parents like shiny new buildings, and Raac definitely isn’t helping our reputation.” billion (or about $2.81 billion USD) annually at present.

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Archinect

MAY 22, 2023

Researchers estimated the weight of all of New York City’s buildings to be around 842 million tons. But to find the areas more vulnerable to sinking — or, as they call it in more scientific terms, “subsidence” — a key factor to consider was the type of soil beneath the buildings. millimeters.

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Archinect

JULY 13, 2022

A significant next step has been taken in the construction process that will eventually culminate in Peter Zumthor ’s brand new David Geffen Galleries building for the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as it inches closer to its anticipated 2024 completion date. Previously on Archinect: In Los Angeles, institutions build, but.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Proponents of the so-called Empty Homes Tax believe it could raise more than $38 million annually; half of which would be used to fund rental subsidies for elderly and low-income households, with the other half used by the city to purchase empty buildings and convert them into affordable housing.

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