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The Downcity Plan, II

Architecture Here and There

Chapter 22 concludes Part II of the book, whose final two chapters record the two major projects that sparked the Providence renaissance, which followed a series of major hiccups in the city’s development, which have been described in the other chapters of Part II, reprinted here over the past several months.

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2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award

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Richard Adetokunbo Aina (Architectural Assistant at Timothy Hatton Architects; winner of the 2021 RIBA Dissertation Medal; member of the RIBA Education Development Group). Jane Pavitt (Head of Research and Learning, Zaha Hadid Foundation, UK). Jane Pavitt (Head of Research and Learning, Zaha Hadid Foundation, UK). RIBA Awards.

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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. They start with the benefits of their highly people-adjacent land holdings and work outward—with more consideration for land as an economic development tool than as an ecological resource. Photo by Grounded Strategies.

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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. Iturbide Studio is the kind of project architects dream about. Kimberly Dowdell.

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"The Vessel shows us how bad the vampiric ultra-wealthy are at making public space"

Deezen

Someone at minimum would have pointed out the suicide risks, like former Architect's Newspaper associate editor Audrey Wachs, who predicted them in 2016. Across the East River in Brooklyn, nearly a decade of meetings – almost 300 – resulted in a fully public-financed Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) that is well-attended and well-liked.

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Los Angeles Is Giving Away Plans for a Pre-Approved ADU

Dwell

The building’s foundation was designed for conditions that Alden calls "the worst case scenario"—a site with clay soil that expands with water contact—which was stamped and approved by the city. The plans have also been reviewed and plan-checked.

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Singapore Pavilion 2023 Venice Biennale

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Adopting a long-term and comprehensive planning approach, we formulate strategic plans such as the Long-Term Plan and the Master Plan to guide the physical development of Singapore in a sustainable manner. Developed to support economic growth, our plans and policies are focused on achieving a quality living environment for Singapore.