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Yancheng East Lake Xinyu Commercial by Lacime Architects

Archinect

This project is located in the Urban Sports Park and along the canal in the Eastern Development Zone of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Surrounded by government offices, residential areas, reception hotels, and other facilities, it represents a typical new urban development zone in China.

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Is Social Housing Designed to Fail? (And How We Can Make It Work)

Architizer

A (Somewhat) Brief History of Social Housing In case you are only vaguely familiar with the typology, social housing , broadly defined, refers to subsidized or government-controlled housing designed to ensure affordability for low- and moderate-income residents. stevecadman, RobinHoodgardens , CC BY-SA 2.0

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Bates Smart creates "uniquely Australian" monolithic embassy in Washington DC

Deezen

Completed in 2023, the 9,890-square metre (214,094-square foot) complex completes Scott Circle at the intersection of 16th Street and Massachusetts Avenue and transitions from a residential neighborhood to a commercial district. The building's main entrance is oriented south toward the White House.

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Celebrating Unthank Seder Poticha

SW Oregon Architect

In Eugene at-large, they were single-handedly responsible for creating the 5th Avenue Special Area Zone, which dramatically reshaped civic and commercial life in downtown Eugene. The Albany Public Library, The Local Government Center in Salem, the list goes on! The Willamette Valley is richer for their work.

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The Need for Visionary Thinking

SW Oregon Architect

How does this design provide a way for them to interact with the adjacent commercial uses? Instead, the problem(s) may be one inherent in the structure of local governments everywhere, specifically their traditional segregation of functions into discrete silos of responsibilities. Whether it will or not deserves our attention.

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What if?

SW Oregon Architect

Rather than attempt to fully resurrect our downtown core along the lines of what it once was—a center for commerce, government, and culture—I believe we should emphasize the development of housing of all types at various levels, both market-rate and subsidized, at mid-to-high levels of density. This drops even lower to only 2.4

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Minhang Riverfront Regeneration | SPARK

ArchiDiaries

SPARK’s proposal creates a 750-meter-long recreational environment that meets the government and community’s desire for a sense of place that facilitates better pedestrian connections and promotes a more sustainable living environment. Excerpt : Minhang Riverfront Regeneration is a riverfront designed by the architectural firm SPARK.