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

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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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Baltimore City and County Planning the Future: How they prepare their new Masterplans

Community Architect Daily

Late to the party: The new 10 year plans Baltimore City calls it a Comprehensive Plan and hasn't done one since 2006. Baltimore County calls it Masterplan 2030 and its last version is from 2020. Both City and County planning departments lean heavily on the APA publication Best Practices for a Comprehensive Plan.

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Grozny masterplanning competition, Chechen Republic

e-architect

DOM.RF, a Russian federal agency for mortgage services and urban development, delivers funding in support of the formidable goal. A master-plan is a comprehensive strategic document correlating urban design with economic development of the territory, guiding future growth and development», – said Anton Finogenov.

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Saudi Arabia set to host 2030 World Expo in Riyadh

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Saudi Arabia 's capital Riyadh has won the competition to host the 2030 World Expo, becoming the second Middle Eastern city to host the international event after Dubai in 2020. Other cities bidding to host the event, which takes place every five years, were Rome in Italy and Busan in South Korea. The photo is by Tom Ravenscroft.

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Lafayette and KCAP win Green masterplan for Tours airport area

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After a year of competitive dialogue, the team led by Lafayette, in collaboration with KCAP, Etablissement, Elioth, Suez, Ville en Œuvre, Mint and E.Co, has won the 700-hectare masterplan for the area around Tours Val de Loire Airport in France, competing against two other international teams. Image © Filippo Bolognese.

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Foster + Partners unveils Saudi Arabia pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka

Deezen

It will be among the national pavilions at the upcoming World Expo , for which Sou Fujimoto Architects is developing the masterplan on the artificial island Yumeshima in Osaka Bay, Japan. The last international fair was the Expo 2020 Dubai , which was held in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic.

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Agritecture Is Challenging How Architects Think About Cities

Architizer

Since 2011 Gordon Smith has studied the symbiotic relationship between humans and the natural world through the lens of urban architectural development. This is why there are fewer small birds in cities or urban areas — fewer plants, fewer bugs, fewer birds.

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