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Michael Heizer completes monumental City sculpture in Nevada desert

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"City is intentionally reminiscent of many ancient ceremonial constructions through its complexity and size, but its form is suggestive of the central hub or nucleus of a modern city," said the Triple Aught Foundation , a non-profit that was created to fund the project in 1988 and is now in charge of its preservation.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

In 2015, she founded the architecture studio LANZA Atelier, along with Alessandro Arienzo. From 2015 to 2017, Abascal was the Executive Director of LIGA, Espacio para Arquitectura, a platform dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of Latin American architecture. She is also a 2022 Graham Foundation Grantee.

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Banking on Borrowed Land

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Land banks and land trusts have overlapping missions—stewarding land—but different frameworks and financing. Kimberly Gleffe served the River Revitalization Foundation (RRF), an accredited land trust in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as executive director for 20 years before transitioning to a role in philanthropy last year. “I

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. Left: Women’s Opportunity Center, Rwanda; right: Sharon Davis, image via Curbed.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Boasting as many pages as An Atlas of Es Devlin is Copper Hewitt's guide to its own collection, made with designer Irma Boom when the institution completed a major overhaul of its Upper East Side home (the former Andrew Carnegie mansion) in late 2014/early 2015. and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons).

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Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?

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A 2015 ordinance allowed accessory dwelling units to be built on any single-family lot on O‘ahu. On the supply side, the Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corporation develops and finances low- and moderate-income housing projects.

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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. With these foundations, Adrian formed Meta Architecture in 2012. Dsg is a subsidiary of the Singapore Economic Development Board. It also expands Singapore’s opportunity to collaborate with cities from the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN).