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Rowan Moore on how Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo plans to use the 2024 Olympics as the catalyst for a greener ‘City of Lights’

Archinect

She wants to make it a paradise of low pollution and healthy living, as friendly to pedestrians and bicycles as can be, with new developments planned to promote community life.

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Kongjian Yu? wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize for achievements in landscape architecture

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Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge city’ urban design concept in China after 1995. He said in a recent interview that its roots stem from his childhood experiences in Jinhua.

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News: Kongjian Yu? wins the 2023 Oberlander Prize for achievements in landscape architecture

Bustler

Yu is known throughout the landscape profession for pioneering the ‘sponge city’ urban design concept in China after 1995. He said in a recent interview that its roots stem from his childhood experiences in Jinhua. Read the full post on Bustler

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The best of affordable housing: 4 projects honored in 2014 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards [slideshow]

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recognized four recipients of the 2014 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards. The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Body Image: read more.

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Four firms win 2014 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards

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Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), recognized four recipients of the 2014 AIA/HUD Secretary Awards. The American Institute of Architects’ (AIA) Housing and Custom Residential Knowledge Community, in conjunction with the Office of the Secretary of the U.S. Body Image: read more. Architects Designers'

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Aulik Fiser Architekti

ArchiDiaries

He joined the Aulík Fišer studio after graduation and started to concentrate on urban development concept ideas in the context of Prague. One of the main themes of his work has been the development of the BB Centrum in Prague Michle, with the latest completed project called Delta. Most recently, he completed the Bo?islavka

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Kongjian Yu wins 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander award

Deezen

Yu's work has been influenced by the devastation that monsoons caused to cities in China, and in 2014 the government adopted his sponge city concept as a "guiding theory" for future urban development. "And it is also recognizing and honoring Oberland's vision and manifesto."

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