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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

She will also schedule in-person curated experiences in select cities, including dinner salons, roundtables, panel discussions, and other related events. She co-led the MA architectural design studio Politics of the Atmosphere (2019–22) and currently teaches an interdisciplinary module across all schools at the Royal College of Art in London.

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Habitat For Humanity Doesn’t Just Give Away Houses

Dwell

The appeal of the group’s approach, amplified through high-profile media events (some of them featuring a certain peanut-loving ex-president ), has made Habitat not only one of the most productive forces in the below-market housing sphere but also, perhaps, its most recognizable. Then they called back and said he was coming anyway.

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LWK + PARTNERS Architects, Hong Kong

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25 Nov 2019. 12 Nov 2019. 20 Oct 2019. 16 Oct 2019. 13 Oct 2019. 14 Oct 2019. 26 Sep 2019. LWK + PARTNERS Recognised with Four Cityscape Awards for Emerging Markets 2019. Kei Cuisine , Hong Kong, China. photography : iMAGE28. Kei Cuisine Restaurant Hong Kong. photograph : Guanhong Chen.

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Dodge the I-195 fooddoggle

Architecture Here and There

Yesterday’s Sunday Journal describes the growing dispute between Providence restaurants and the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission, which wants to use state money to finance a food pavilion in the park at the west end of the Van Leesten Memorial Pedestrian Bridge. Well, those are a couple of outta-the-boxers.

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A Summer in Fire Island—Spent Working, Not Shacking Up

Dwell

Last summer, Ricky Najjar, a 32-year-old professional wrestler, DJ, and events producer based in Los Angeles, took a job as the bar manager at a hotel in East Hampton (another beach area toward the tip of Long Island) after being approached by the hotel’s general manager on a job search site.

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"The people of Los Angeles waited patiently for half a decade to make use of a useless site"

Deezen

This billion-dollar tomb to foreign real-estate speculation in the western corner of downtown Los Angeles (DTLA), laid hollow since 2019, was revived early this year by graffiti artists and paragliders that made it their night-time playground.

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A New Hope [12]

A Better Built Environment

I’ll be joining them as a Senior Account Manager, consulting with firms to help improve their operations, management, and finances. The position is also a feeling of comfort as I worked with CVG as a client of theirs while running my previous firm from 2014-2019. You can learn more about CVG and what we do here.

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