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British Library Boston Spa, West Yorkshire building

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Following significant government investment announced in the March 2020 Budget, the Library is expanding and refurbishing the West Yorkshire facility just outside Boston Spa, near Wetherby. British Library Boston Spa Masterplan. British Library Masterplan. Previously on e-architect: British Library West Yorkshire Building News.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Left: Student Residence in Saclay_momentum, Saclay, France, 2020 A+Awards Popular Winner in the Small Multi-Unit Housing category; Right: Anna Maria Bordas via Bordas+Peiro. 2020 A+Award winner Anna Maria Bordas is an architect from ENSAVT and engineer of Ponts et Chaussées engineering school. Anna Maria Bordas. Cécile Brisac.

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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

The bill would work in tandem with the new 2030 Masterplan which recognizes the need for "retrofit" in lieu of paving over more of the dwindling open space. Baltimore County won a State award for this masterplan. Klaus Philipsen, FAIA related on this blog Jan 2023: Why Lovely Suburbia.

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Why Didn't We Do This Sooner? Singing the Praises of Virtual Meetings

Community Architect

Zoom fatigue became a thing in 2020 (Mitchell Republic) As is often the case with innovation, complaints overshadow the benefits. I now participate in more public involvement meetings for the new masterplan, the new budget and the like, for which I would often didn't find the time to attend when it had to be in person.

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American Icon or Chief Offender?

Community Architect

In German suburbs single family homes are much more pervasive, but publicly controlled masterplans frequently mandate services, apartments and retail to be mixed in. The first US city was Minneapolis in 2019, in 2020 followed Portland, Or. What happened in those months since he bill took effect in January 2020?

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From Web to Print

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Recently I was watching a news program, most likely PBS Newshour or an MSNBC show, and was struck by one of the talking heads speaking via Skype or Zoom being described as "a writer working on turning her blog into a book." His blog was five years old when the book came out, meaning BLDGBLOG is going on eighteen years.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

Community Architect Daily

Success or failure I asked in a 2015 blog article about EBDI and in the end had no definite answer. Enough for EBDI CEO Cheryl Washington to describe the project as "on track" in 2020. "We EBDI CEO Cheryl Washington in Jan 2020). The Forest City masterplan (2011) with a large park What do former participants say?