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Diller Scofidio + Renfro's V&A East Storehouse to open in late May

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The estimated $81.5 million project provides the 250,000 object storage component half of what’s been described as the UK’s largest museum-led development scheme in decades, and is being realized at the former 2012 Olympics media center site.

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The toll on heritage sites in Turkey and Syria following the February earthquakes is staggering

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The catastrophic events have devastated countless heritage structures, archaeological areas and religious sites, many still active places of worship, across an area so vast that it encompasses ten Turkish provinces and impacts more than 13 million people. The World Bank estimates the total physical damage in Turkey to be approximately $34.2

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Milan's former Expo 2015 site is being remade into a tech-centric innovation district

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The former industrial site was also famously home to Milan Expo 2015 , which drew some 22 million visitors during its six-month run and has since been partially dismantled. million-square-foot site. An estimated value of $3.6 Drugmaker AstraZeneca has already moved all of its Italian operations into space on the massive 16.1

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+POOL gets final location at NYC's Pier 35 and 2025 opening

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Arup will be supplying the project’s key water filtration system, which is being demonstrated on-site this month, along with a 2,000-square-foot sample pool. The project is estimated to cost between $20 million to $25 million, according to most sources ($16 million of which comes from the state).

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Populous advances new downtown ballpark district proposal in Kansas City

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acre site at the confluence of Grand Boulevard, Locust Street, Truman Road, and 17th Street, the development would offer a connector to the nearby South Loop Link project from OJB Landscape Architecture and BNIM. Cost estimates for the project are between $1–2 billion. Slotted into a 17.5-acre

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LA moves up Convention Center expansion plan to clear 2028 Olympics hurdle

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The pre-design work could cost up to $100 million before the estimated $1.4 ” Plans for a new 37-story Marriott Hotel tower from Gensler at the site are being delayed for right now, says Urbanize LA. billion project kicks off in 2025. The fate of the nearby unfinished Oceanwide Plaza development also remains unclear.

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Steven Holl and SKUPINA-designed Terezín Ghetto Museum advances

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The firm was named the winner of an international competition to design an extension of the existing museum in 2022 and will deliver the project on the site, which was first constructed as a citadel in 1780. The Schematic Design phase was completed in March.