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Traço Alternativo Arquitectos Associados

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Post-graduated in Real Estate Management by the Faculty of Economics of Oporto in 2006. (“Text as submitted by architect”). Nuno Campos. Architect graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Oporto in 1999. Founding partner of Traço Alternativo Arquitectos Associados in 2004.

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Inside the Big Business That Is Palm Springs Modernism Week

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A participant in the annual event since its official launch in 2006 and in the shopping-centric Palm Springs Modernism Show before that, Shag has become emblematic of the midcentury movement’s rise in the global marketplace over the past decade or so. 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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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. This ambitious vision even includes the remarkable Sky Mile Tower, reaching over 5,250 feet (1,600 meters) in height.

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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. You want to improve land in a way that…lifts the real estate values around it,” says Barbara Hopkins, ASLA, a lawyer and the executive director of NeighborSpace. “On