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New Yorkers are still pissed about disrupted view sheds and 262 Fifth Avenue

Archinect

NYT critic Michael Kimmelman also wrote of their plight last year, declaring theirs and other opposition attempts a noble attempt at restoring the city’s history in an era defined by zoning manipulation and visible inequality.

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The California Coastal Commission

Santa Cruz Architect

The California Coastal Commission is a state agency with quasi-judicial regulatory oversight over land use and public access in the California coastal zone. The Coastal Zone is described as the area from the Mean High Tide Line to a distance of between a couple of hundred feet in urban areas, to up to several miles in rural areas.

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Competitions: Chernobyl Rewilding: Designing Biodiverse Cities

Bustler

Registration Deadline: Oct 25, 2023; Submission Deadline Oct 25, 2023 Premise The Chernobyl Rewilding competition calls architects to envision a transformative city that reawakens the natural world within the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Sustainable approaches are vital to ensure that this new city thrives amidst its unique context.

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Together for the Terroir

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Over the years she worked on several projects around Larkmead, including restoration work along the Napa River and Selby Creek. “It One of several design options developed by Ann Baker Landscape Architecture that respond to drought and wildfire regulations and are available for free online.

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Ten architecture and design projects by the University of New South Wales

Deezen

Also included is a medical device worn as an item of headwear that soothes symptoms in people with eye conditions and a scheme that creates beneficial community zones along the Georges River in Sydney. A neoprene compression funnel regulates the speed of exiting fruit when unloading into pallet bins.

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Barcelona’s Best: Enric Miralles and Benedetta Tagliabue’s Poetics of Place

Architizer

Its labyrinthine form regulates the different functions spreading around it and creates spontaneous interactions within the public fabric of Lleida, becoming a true architecture of place. The location of the Plaza also serves as the official entrance into the city.

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ROLL, TIDE

Landscape Architecture Magazine

In 2014, a federal judge ruled that BP had acted with “gross negligence” in the lead-up to the spill, and in the years that followed, billions of dollars in settlements and damages began flowing to gulf communities, distributed according to the terms of the RESTORE Act passed by Congress and signed by President Obama in 2012.