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Inside the Big Business That Is Palm Springs Modernism Week

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(A party at a house he designed was also meant to be one the festival’s marquee events before construction delays waylaid the opening.) The 11-day event drew more than 100,000 people. In short: If there’s a face of this year’s Palm Springs Modernism Week, it’s Shag.

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Architects’ Guide: Short and Long Term Design Strategies for Flood Defense and Urban Resilience

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Proactive, managed retreats will have significantly lower social and economic impacts than forced, reactive retreats after the event of coastal flooding. Inspections in 2006 exposed overloaded supporting elements and foundation challenges, leading to a design competition and, eventually, the selection of Zaha Hadid Architects for the project.

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Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

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Von Gerkan was co-founder of the gmp Foundation and of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). Therefore, our work as university professors and in the gmp Foundation was particularly important to us. The aac is a non-profit organization focused on the educational development of graduates and young architects. 23 Sep 2020.

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The Butterfly Effect

Landscape Architecture Magazine

By Anjulie Rao / Photography by Sahar Coston-Hardy, Affiliate ASLA Volunteers and staff from the Tamir Rice Foundation greet visitors at the garden’s unveiling. She remembered Austin Allen, ASLA, a Black, Cleveland-born landscape architect whom she met when she first moved to the city in 2006. I arrived at the Marion C.

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New York Architecture News: NYC Buildings

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New York Architecture Designs, NYC Building News, Manhattan Real Estate Photos, USA City Images. Its odd layout and challenging features of exposed foundation walls and large structural columns were further complicated by being partially submerged below grade and hemmed in by foundations. New York Building News 2006.

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Banking on Borrowed Land

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Nationally, land banks rely on myriad funding sources and strategies to cover expenses, including real estate revenue and nonrecurring government support. Pittsburgh is a city with varying topography and, because of this, [is] prone to events from climate change. Very few land banks receive recurring government funding.

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20 Inspirational Thought Leaders on the 10th Anniversary A+Awards Jury

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It makes sense, then, that our jurors do too: our 250+ member jury academy is comprised of leaders who are actively shaping the world we live in, representing a sought-after segment of design-savvy professionals including distinguished luminaries from fields as diverse as fashion, publishing, product design, real estate development and tech.