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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. So why include it?

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Beauty, Ma’am, if you can keep it

Architecture Here and There

Second among these projects, shaped over a longer term, is Kennedy Plaza, which has already seen its beauty degraded by the removal of its elegant Art Nouveau bus waiting kiosks, replaced in 2015 with unembellished utilitarian cubicles unworthy of our city’s central civic square.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Anita Lara Bulloni is a Founder and Architect at the Italian office, LOKOMOTIV.arches – LKMV , where her projects have ranged from church restoration to commercial interiors to residential design. Urban-oriented design is the thread that unites their portfolio of mainly commercial commissions. Anita Bulloni. Sharon Davis.

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Going Solar: The Rays That Pay

Community Architect

Commercial asset managers working for shareholders and investors have to also worry about their standing on E nvironmental, S ocial and G overnance (ESG) metric which investors increasingly use to rate companies. PV modules that will feed commercial grade, 480V 3-phase grid-tie inverters. For them there are several other options.

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Sustainable Architecture Can’t Save the Planet. Change My Mind.

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Learn more and register > In December 2015, world leaders signed the historic Paris Agreement at the UN Climate Change Conference COP21. Another entrant, NZI Architectes , used wood and straw to convert an old commercial property in Paris to 139 student homes (pictured above). Image by SOM | Miysis.

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Singapore Pavilion 2023 Venice Biennale

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Singapore was designated a UNESCO Creative City of Design in December 2015. Major works include Khong Guan Building (with Meta, 2018), Gardens by the Bay in Singapore, Bridge Learning Campus in Bristol, UK and Guangzhou International Finance Centre in China (with Wilkinson Eyre, 2005-2012).

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Detroit Walking Tour

A Detroit Architect's Journal

Purchased by Bedrock Real Estate Service (Dan Gilbert) in 2015, it is undergoing a complete restoration with a scheduled opening in 2018. Succumbing to Detroit's declining commercial activity, the building changed hands multiple times until closing in 1979. The ground floor was once home to the SkyBar Lounge.