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Espoo House celebrates Finland's tradition of wooden construction

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Wood will be the primary material used to construct this building for the city administration of Espoo, Finland , which is being designed by studios Cobe and Lundén Architecture Company. Named Espoo House, the 24,000-square-mere building is intended to pay homage to Finland's history of timber construction.

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Saudi Arabia’s The Line Megadevelopment Gets A Lot Shorter

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The controversial planned city was supposed to cut across 105 miles of desert. Last month, The Guardian and Bloomberg CityLab reported a massive scaling back of the development’s footprint: By 2030, a completed segment of The Line is now predicted to house just 300,000 people and be less than 1.5 Now, not so much. miles long.

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Zaha Hadid Architects wins competition for the development of Zugló City Centre

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The mixed-use Zugló City Centre in Budapest’s 14th district integrates new civic spaces surrounded by nature together with homes, shops and offices on a site of nearly seven hectares between Bosnyák Square and Rákos Creek. The project will create one of the greenest and most sustainable neighborhoods on the Pest side of the capital.

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"All those complicit in Neom's design and construction are already destroyers of worlds"

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Architects working on the Neom mega-project in Saudi Arabia , including the 170-kilometre city The Line , must decide whether they are content to be complicit in an "ecological and moral atrocity", writes Adam Greenfield. Read: Sustainability and liveability claims of Saudi 170-kilometre city are "naive" say experts.

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This week Neom planned a bid to host the 2034 World Cup

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This week on Dezeen , we reported that Saudi Arabia has begun planning its bid to host the 2034 football World Cup in venues including Neom, the mega-development currently under construction in the country.

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Herzog & de Meuron unveils sculptural concrete museum on Qatari island

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Herzog & de Meuron will abstract features from historic Islamic buildings into the design According to Qatar Museums, construction work will be a collaborative process with local artisans and craftspeople to ensure the design's vernacular references maintain genuine connections to the region.

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Saudi Arabia set to host 2030 World Expo in Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia 's capital Riyadh has won the competition to host the 2030 World Expo, becoming the second Middle Eastern city to host the international event after Dubai in 2020. Other cities bidding to host the event, which takes place every five years, were Rome in Italy and Busan in South Korea. The photo is by Tom Ravenscroft.