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Grenfell Tower to be demolished, UK government confirms

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The remaining structure of Grenfell Tower is to be demolished, the UK government has confirmed. The UK housing secretary Angela Rayner formally announced the decision today, while the coming months will see a specialist contractor begin developing a plan to demolish the tower.

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The Triple Bottom Line in Architecture: Developing Properties for People, Planet, and Profit

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Image © Dave Burk Prioritizing people and the planet, when it comes to building construction and real estate development, is being seen as more than an ethical mandate - it is a highly profitable approach. In Toronto , Canada, the ongoing Downsview Airport redevelopment project showcases this mindset in practice.

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Google updates Open Buildings data sets using AI

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The team had a simple vision: to fill a major gap in data for population and density in the developing world. billion more people could move to cities by 2050, most of them in the Global South — this could be a real step change for governments and organizations working through that growth.

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Rowan Moore: UK architects should look elsewhere for council housing inspiration

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In Britain, as our government has promised, we’re going to have a “council housing revolution”, the building of as yet unknown numbers of homes at genuinely affordable rents, a return to policies of 50 and more years ago in order to address the well-known housing crisis. Which is welcome.

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The Line names Gensler, DMAA, and Mott MacDonald to its project team

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NEOM has announced three new architectural partners who will participate in its ongoing planning and design development process for The Line megacity component. The press release names Delugan Meissl Associated Architects (DMAA), Gensler , and Mott MacDonald as additions.

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Your next job could be designing federal government buildings at SOM

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Following last week’s look at an opening for Visiting Faculty Fellowships in Design for Spatial Justice at the University of Oregon , we are using this week’s edition of our Job Highlights series to explore an open role on Archinect Jobs for a Technical Architect - US Government Work at Skidmore, Owings & Merrill.

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The Dutch government is leading the fight to retrofit against climate change

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Energiesprong (which translates to “energy jump”), a nonprofit that the Dutch government helped launch a decade ago, is coordinating a system of mass retrofits. The Netherlands has pursued an aggressive agenda which has meant a spate of net-zero residential conversions.