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Austin Transit Partnership names UNStudio, HKS, and Gehl to lead city's public transit expansion

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UNStudio , HKS , and Gehl have been selected by the Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) to lead the architecture and urban design of Project Connect, a major expansion of the city’s public transit system. The voter-approved investment includes new light rail , expanded bus routes, a subway , and more services across Austin.

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Foster + Partners and Sasaki Associates designing Sierra Leone island city for Idris Elba

Deezen

Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. Sherbro Alliance Partners, which is co-ordinating the masterplan, has enlisted energy company Octopus to develop a strategy for electricity generation based on wind power.

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NEOM: Will the Multi-Billion Dollar Mega-City Ever Come to Life? 

Architizer

Having been dubbed the next step in humanity’s evolution, it is no surprise that about $500 billion worth of funding has already been poured into developing the online presence of the new city-state NEOM. Significant parts of the project were initially set to be completed by 2020, with a further expansion completed by 2025.

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An Organization Is Using History to Rehab Public Housing

Dwell

The president, since 2012, of Harlem-based Ascendant Neighborhood Development , Cirillo leads a nonprofit organization with a 30-year track record of building affordable housing in Upper Manhattan. Ascendant has only been called Ascendant for about six years—we were called SFDS Development Corporation originally.

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Port of Beirut renewal by ALIPH: buildings

e-architect

Ashrafieh 569 building before the intervention: photograph © Marianne Gharzouzi Thanks to ALIPH’s agility and its strong network of partnerships, many of these projects were financed quickly and launched without delay. Georges: photograph courtesy of ALIPH In Beirut, ALIPH has supported more than 20 projects for a total of USD 3.6

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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. Louis and Paris/Indonesia/Flanders. An example is in order.

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The "miracle" of Taiwan's luxury social housing

Deezen

Minglun Social Housing, designed by Bio-architecture Formosana and JH Day Building Workshop, was completed in 2020. In line with need, the capital, Taipei, has the highest concentration of social housing constructed so far, followed by Taiwan's other major cities. People had an image about public housing coming from America.

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