Community Architect Daily

JULY 5, 2022

Can a developer be forced to develop a vacant lot? A lot that sits in the downtown of a major city in a strategic position? A lot that is only vacant because the developer decided to purchase and demolish a historic theater venue? It’s time to put up or shut up. And if he’s not putting up, he should be fined."

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Deezen

JANUARY 30, 2024

International architecture studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed the final supertall skyscraper of a development in Midtown Manhattan , marking the project's finalization. Together, the two towers announce the development's civic identity."

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Archinect

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Amid the backdrop of a national trend of tumbling enrollments, brutal pandemic-era learning losses and an ongoing flight of young families from urban centers, the dilemma of how to repurpose empty schools is that many cities face. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, about 2,200 public schools closed from 2019 to 2022.

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Brandon Donnelly

APRIL 13, 2022

The big news this week for Toronto city builders is that the city has put forward a proposal to substantially increase development charges. When our cost consultant ran the numbers back in 2019, the estimate was that about a quarter of the price of a new condominium in Toronto was going to government fees and taxes.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

5 things developers should know about mass timber 0 qpurcell Thu, 02/15/2024 - 13:36 Mass Timber Gensler's Erik Barth, architect and regional design resilience leader, shares considerations for developers when looking at mass timber solutions. Erik Barth Regulations Mass Timber Wood The Changing Built Environment The U.N.’s

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2022

The UK Architects’ Journal is reporting that the suit was brought against the state-run Amaravati Metropolitan Region Development Authority (AMRDA) over their repeated inability to respond to payment requests from Foster + Partners that date to 2019.

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Archinect

MARCH 28, 2023

AECOM has been present throughout NEOM’s development so far. In 2019 , the firm won a project management contract for the development of NEOM Bay. The firm will offer support towards master planning, design, and construction services as well as testing, commissioning, operational readiness, activation, and transition.

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Archinect

MARCH 15, 2023

A protracted battle over control of one of New York City’s most iconic buildings will finally be settled at auction later this month. A group of developers will hash out their ownership of the Flatiron Building after a State Supreme Court judge ruled a sale could move forward on March 22 at Mannion Auctions.

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Archinect

AUGUST 17, 2023

Downtown Melbourne's potential future scenario of widely-available self-driving cars has developers rethinking millions of square feet worth of parking garages, and vertical farms are seen as a solution (along with housing, retail, and dining options).

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BD+C

JULY 8, 2019

The 30 largest cities in the U.S. are experiencing a “Doppler shift” in walkable development, according to a researcher at the George Washington University School of Business and co-author of the report, 2019 Foot Traffic Ahead report.

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Deezen

AUGUST 1, 2022

As a 170-kilometre-long mirrored megacity in the Saudi desert makes headlines around the world, here is a roundup of 10 futuristic cities currently being planned across the globe. Global issues such as the housing crisis and climate change are galvanising ambitions for a new generation of high-tech cities. The Line, Saudi Arabia.

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Deezen

AUGUST 4, 2023

Football club Manchester City has won approval to redevelop a stand at its stadium in Manchester , UK, to increase capacity while adding a museum and hotel. This is similar to the one Populous created above the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in north London , which opened in 2019. The imagery is courtesy of Populous.

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Archinect

AUGUST 24, 2023

While the city’s top transportation post remains vacant, the department’s respected former commissioner has landed a leadership post at the award-winning Chicago architecture firm Studio Gang. Gia Biagi will join Studio Gang as Principal of Urbanism, the firm announced Thursday.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

A trio of incomplete skyscrapers in downtown Los Angeles have been covered with graffiti , sparking debate about the development, which has been abandoned since 2019. We are disturbed by the images of the vandalism of Oceanwide Plaza," said the Central City Association of Los Angeles organisation in a statement.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2022

Through the doldrums of America’s pandemic-triggered office downturn, the nation’s capital is quickly turning into a case study for the conversion of former commercial spaces into residential housing and mixed-use development. million square feet of rentable office space a prime target for prospective developers.

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Brandon Donnelly

JULY 10, 2022

Here is an interesting chart from the WSJ showing how much net income migrated to the state of Florida between 2019 and 2020: I’m not sure what the exact dates are for this dataset, but it seems to again suggest that this migration was already a trend before the pandemic happened. I’m getting nervous.”.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Promotion: the City of Copenhagen is transforming the Danish capital's harbour into a vibrant public space with recreational activities and residential developments. The development will also provide space for events, introduce nature to the site and make the area cleaner and friendlier. Image by Daniel Rasmussen.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

First announced in 2019, the project spans a block of Fulton Street between Brooklyn Avenue to the east and New York Avenue to the west. Plans call for the construction of three buildings featuring approximately 840,000 square feet of offices, educational, cultural, and commercial space.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

The bridge is one of two bridges that will serve to better connect pedestrians and cyclists to the rejuvenated Ile de Ramier, the new “green lung” for the city within the river Garonne. Called LIFE Green Heart, the project aims to revegetate and develop the biodiversity of the island as a means of combating climate change.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 23, 2021

A new development in the 2019 accidental death of architect Erica Tishman as criminal charges have been filed against property owners 729 Acquisitions LLC. NBC4 New York is reporting that the administrative code charges were brought by the NYC Department of Buildings.

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Archinect

APRIL 7, 2022

The company is announcing a new project to augment its vast theme park and resort development with 1,300 units of affordable housing, set on 80 acres of land right next to Disney World. The Walt Disney Company is hoping to work with an unnamed third-party affordable housing developer to build the project.

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Deezen

AUGUST 2, 2022

Architecture studio Arney Fender Katsalidis has released visuals of a proposed 60-storey- skyscraper named 55 Bishopsgate for a site close to Foster + Partners ' Gherkin in the City of London. The post Skyscraper that "takes inspiration from nature" proposed for City of London appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

MAY 4, 2022

That's according to an updated study by the Bureau of Engineering that will be reviewed today by a City Council committee. As reported by The Eastsider , between 2016 and 2019 the cost jumped from $252 million to $798.2 million, whi.

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Deezen

APRIL 28, 2022

Architecture firms BIG and Samoo and tech company Oceanix have revealed their design for a first-of-its-kind climate-resilient floating city , destined for the seas off Busan in South Korea. Oceanix Busan will be a first-of-its-kind floating development in South Korea. Construction will begin in 2023, reported The Independent.

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Community Architect Daily

APRIL 1, 2022

In other words, get off a train at most of the metro, light rail and MARC stops in Baltimore City and County outside of downtown and there is not a whole lot going on. Therefore, the news that MDOT plans to convert one of its parking lots to a "town center" and has selected a local development team is good news.

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Archinect

JANUARY 7, 2022

The incident is eerily reminiscent of the tragic 2019 death of architect Erica Tishman in Manhattan, which has resulted in recent criminal charges in addition to a host of lawsuits brought against the property developers and city by the architect’s family and Department of Buildings. No one was injured.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over that time he has served as an architect, planner, educator, and an advisor to cities in and beyond the US, including Charleston, South Carolina, Omaha, and New York City, where he was Director of Urban Design in the Department of City Planning.

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ArchiDiaries

JUNE 13, 2022

The aim of the “Meta-City” competition is to develop one drawing to communicate a conceptual design. This is a competition where you develop your communication, designer, and space thinker skills. From 2016 to 2019, Non Architecture organized a series of 10 competitions pointed at reinventing functional architectural typologies.

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Deezen

MARCH 7, 2024

A Freedom of Information Act request submitted by Dezeen to Norwich City Council found that seven of the homes in the award-winning social-housing development are already subject to Right to Buy applications, having only been completed in 2019.

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Community Architect

MAY 27, 2023

No matter how much unfettered growth is blamed for its impact on the climate, there is no doubt that growing cities do much better than their shrinking peers. In my visits to Rotterdam and Toronto I was taken aback by the spirit of "can-do" optimism and the scale of projects those cities are undertaking to cope with their growth.

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BD+C

APRIL 17, 2019

The ways that architects, developers, and operators design projects, attract tenants, manage costs, and measure success are each flexing as cities change and generations make big shifts in living habits.

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Bustler

MAY 3, 2023

Abstract Urban desert cities and their communities face a hostile future. The City of Tempe, one of the densest communities in the Phoenix Metropolitan Area, is already a leader in climate action. Yet, there is still work to be done. Change at this scale cannot happen overnight.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 17, 2024

Located as it was and is at the east end of Franklin Boulevard, the building functioned as a gateway and symbol of the city’s rapidly expanding transportation infrastructure and commercial development upon its opening in 1960. As a development partner, the UO would lease the land to Project^.

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Deezen

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mercedes-Benz and developer Binghatti have revealed plans for a supertall skyscraper in central Dubai , which will be the car company's first branded residential tower. It will become one of the city's tallest buildings. It is the latest in a series of residential developments being created by car brands across the world.

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Community Architect Daily

MAY 5, 2022

To some the Baltimore Charm City Circulator (" The backbone of any great city is transportation") is nothing but a toy for the young professionals and "creatives" who live in the affluent parts of the City also known as the "white L". A bus system, critics say, that further cements the racial divide in our city.

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Dwell

MARCH 29, 2024

After Wright’s death in 1959, development at Taliesin West was not planful or by design," says Stuart Graff, the foundation’s president and CEO, in a press release. The site was named a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2019, alongside eight other of the Wright’s buildings.

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This could be a good idea: New York City Mayor Eric Adams today appointed Ya-Ting Liu as the city’s first-ever chief public realm officer, delivering on a key promise from his State of the City address. When done right, public spaces have been proven to promote economic development.

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