ArchDaily

AUGUST 23, 2023

As the demands of the built environment expand, local authorities worldwide are redefining policies and regulations to shape their cities. These innovative regulations can drive sustainable and consistent progress as cities stand at the intersection between their present challenges and future aspirations. Read more »

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Archinect

DECEMBER 22, 2021

For reasons both tragic and optimistic, 2021 was a year where regulations and policy were never far from the media spotlight. To further explore this point, we have set out the key developments and stories throughout 2021 which showed the power of policy, codes, and regulations in architecture — be it at a fe.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Researchers from the University of Chicago’s Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering have published details of a new material that can auto-regulate its environment by changing its infrared colors and liquid-solid state.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 20, 2024

The National Council of Architectural Registration Boards ( NCARB ) has announced a consensus opinion regarding the regulation of artificial intelligence technology and its future impact on the architectural profession. This announcement emerged from NCARB's 2024 Annual Business Meeting in June, where 150 licensing board members convened.

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ArchDaily

AUGUST 7, 2023

San Marco Plazza in Venice, Italy. Image © Jaroslav Moravcik via Shutterstock Since pandemic-imposed restrictions have been lifted, Europe has experienced a surge in tourism, with millions of people visiting some of its most attractive destinations, such as Venice , Barcelona or Paris.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 21, 2024

In contrast, modern technologies now allow for almost completely impermeable building envelopes, allowing for complete separation between indoors and outdoors, thus relying on engineered systems to regulate temperature, airflow, or humidity. Read more »

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The well-heeled Silicon Valley suburb of Woodside has come up with a novel way to block plans that would potentially bring in more affordable housing: Declare itself Cougar Town.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

These spaces play a vital role in creating a harmonious living environment, offering benefits that range from regulating indoor temperatures to enhancing social interactions and fostering a close connection with nature. Read more »

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ArchDaily

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Whether in the form of a central cloister, side courtyards, or through perforated slabs and the addition of skylights, these spaces play a vital role in creating a harmonious living environment, offering benefits ranging from the regulation of interior temperature to enhancing social interactions and fostering a close connection with nature.

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designboom

AUGUST 23, 2024

The post pablo senmartin’s casa solar utilizes nature for climate self-regulation amid argentina ravine appeared first on designboom | architecture & design magazine. solar energy is used in a controlled manner through a mobile roof that allows the interior spatial conditions to change depending on weather conditions.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MAY 15, 2024

But it’s also killing people, according to medical researchers and public health officials around the The post Once considered a safe material, silicosis is the subject of new regulations and changing sentiments about its effects on our health appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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ArchDaily

APRIL 15, 2024

Much like the case of Uber's impact on urban mobility , Airbnb's rapid growth has caused significant challenges for local governments, demanding comprehensive regulation and a re-evaluation of its functioning at the city scale. Read more »

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

This is aimed at helping fasten efforts at decarbonization and regulation in the building sector, which account for 37% of global emissions and is also growing in terms of sheer building footprint worldwide.

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ArchDaily

MARCH 29, 2024

However, in many cases, initiating a playground project might fail due to insufficient funds or regulations/restrictions. © Ahmed Hossam Saafan The idea of a community or public playground is about creating an accessible recreational space for all.

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Archinect

MAY 22, 2023

A small building for a single-family home forms the corner of one of the consolidated blocks of the historic center of Alaquàs.

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Archinect

JANUARY 11, 2023

Beijing-based landscape architecture firm Turenscape has completed the transformation of a former 126-acre dumping ground into a “dreamlike floating forest” in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang.

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ArchDaily

JULY 12, 2024

It is interesting to review how, over the years, these constructions have been modified due to changes in building regulations, which allowed the creation of new typologies, mainly responding to new ways of living within the city.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The landed house typology is often a battleground of competing facets of public regulations, private economics, and creative design in land scarce. Completed in 2022 in Singapore, Singapore. Images by Ong Chan Hao.

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Archinect

APRIL 3, 2024

magnitude that struck eastern Taiwan yesterday has provided evidence as to how the country’s reputedly strong building codes and regulations prevented significant losses of life and property 25 years after another tragic seismic event led to widespread change.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Known by some as 'high Andean wetlands ,' bofedales are ecosystems and landscapes crucial for water regulation and storage in the Andes. Image © Michell León / Forest Trends In the highlands of the Central Andes , one finds the " bofedales."

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ArchDaily

MAY 5, 2024

© Marc Goodwin | Expo 2020 Modular construction is a process in which a building is constructed away from its actual site, within controlled factory settings, using identical materials, and adhering to a set of codes and regulations.

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ArchDaily

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

While achieving energy efficiency depends, among other factors, on the state of the homes, there are various strategies related to the implementation of renewable energies, air conditioning technologies, and more that can be applied, taking into account government policies, laws, regulations, and standards specific to each region.

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ArchDaily

MAY 5, 2024

Biologically, it is indispensable, making up approximately 70% of our bodies and playing a central role in our physiological functions, from temperature regulation to vital cellular processes.

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ArchDaily

JULY 2, 2024

This information is vital for making informed decisions that harmonize with the environment and comply with local zoning regulations, building codes and environmental standards. Traditionally, these surveys have relied on manual measurements with tape measures, basic photographs, and, more recently, expensive laser scanning.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 10, 2024

Its 45,000-square-foot program includes gyms, an NBA regulation-sized basketball court, and several wellness-oriented community spaces. The project is to be realized at the south end of the 19-acre campus in Jackson Park by the end of 2025, an improvement from the firm's previously stated 2026 opening.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 23, 2024

Mostly categorized under the informal economy due to lack of regulations and authorization, street markets in the global south have often been seen as a threat to urban development.

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Archinect

JULY 30, 2024

The Tribune recently asked why mass timber construction is so lagging in Chicago while nearby Milwaukee and other cities in the Pacific Northwest and Europe are making strides to embrace the movement by altering their building codes and fire safety regulations.

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Archinect

MAY 30, 2023

David Andréen The team grounded their research in the egress complex of Macrotermes michaelseni termites in Namibia, which they observed appeared to promote moisture regulation and ventilation. The mounds are regarded as some of the world’s largest biological structures , capable of reachin.

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Archinect

MARCH 9, 2022

However, the reactions by the same officials would suggest that a moment requiring urgent reforms in regulations, funding, and oversight is instead being met with indifference.

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ArchDaily

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The legislation is not an explicit ban on platforms such as Airbnb , but the strict regulations make it almost impossible for the service to continue its activity. The number of guests is also limited to just two, and the duration is limited to 30 days. Read more »

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Archinect

AUGUST 12, 2024

Zoning regulations in wealthy enclaves such as this tend to focus on a design's aesthetic features and proportions relative to its lot size. Some other choice takeaways include Paul Goldberger telling a Hamptons community meeting in May: "We want to be East Hampton, not Levittown-By-the-Sea." (The

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Black churches are responding to these shifts in religiousness, population change, and lack of housing by working to change land use regulations and asking how church property can serve a different function in the community. As the religious and urban landscape changes in North America, churches have had to adapt and evolve. [.] More than 4.3

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Archinect

JUNE 26, 2024

” The company asserted that it did not violate any construction regulations, however, it did acknowledge lacking awareness of the building’s potential impact on the view. It was originally approved by authorities in January 2023 and was scheduled for completion this July.

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Archinect

APRIL 10, 2023

The city granted permits to 988 units last year, and more than 650 were built — not all projects are built during the year they get permitted — outpacing the construction of single houses for the first time As the Seattle Times reports, a change in regulations in 2019 led to the ADU boom locally.

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

Archinect Feature: Beyond the Street: ODA Proposes a Zoning Regulation To Expand the Public Space in New York The firm is now seeking to expand by advertising over on Archinect Jobs for several roles in architecture, landscape design, and interiors.

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Archinect

APRIL 8, 2022

All we need to do is implement them—or better yet, introduce regulations and policies to will them into implementation. Increases in population and the total floor area per person (especially in the global north) accounted for nearly three-quarters of the emissions jump.

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Archinect

MARCH 8, 2024

She currently chairs the Bachelor of Architecture program and co-directs the Urban Works Agency, CCA’s urbanism research lab, where her research explores the role of design at the intersection of citizen-led and city-regulated processes in the production of urban space. Image courtesy Tharanesh Varadharajan, Zachary Ke.

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