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Williamsburg Wharf by Brandon Haw Architecture, Cookfox, Rockwell Group, Ward + Gray, Studio Munge, Hill | West

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One of the most active developers in New York City, Naftali Group has successfully launched and sold out three record-breaking luxury condominium projects in Manhattan since 2020 including The Benson at 1045 Madison Avenue, 200 East 83rd and The Bellemont at 1165 Madison Avenue, in addition to more than 37 total projects over the past three decades.

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Water-filled windows use sunlight to heat and cool buildings

Deezen

Founded in 2020 by Loughborough University architecture lecturer Matyas Gutai, Water-Filled Glass (WFG) aims to use patented technology to make heavily glazed buildings significantly more sustainable. Water-Filled Glass estimates its system can reduce energy bills by around 25 per cent. So we have crazy ideas, but we're not crazy.".

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A new report links infrastructure investment to commercial real estate expansion

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The American Society of Civil Engineers estimates that the United States needs to spend $3.6 trillion by 2020 just to bring the country’s infrastructure back to a level described as adequate.

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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

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The large amount of work hardly surprises us anymore, as the design and construction industries have proven remarkably resilient despite the economic and social turmoil we have endured since early 2020. During the 2020 edition of the Projects in the Pipeline program , developer Jim Atkins of Portland-based Atkins Dame, Inc.

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He Had a Vision: to Build an A-Frame Cabin Almost Entirely Out of Beetle Kill Pine

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Lantero—who serves as the Vice President of Abbott Construction , a Southern California company that builds hospitals, government buildings, and hotels—decided to create his family’s Colorado house after selling Abbott in 2020. "I One species, the mountain pine beetle, was estimated by the Colorado State Forest Service to have killed 3.4

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Shenzhen Bay Headquarters Tower C by UNStudio

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In 2020, a competition was held for the design of the Shenzhen Super Headquarters Base tower C in the city. Programmatically, different types of commercial and public functions are placed strategically throughout the building, engaging visitors and organising activity flows to create a truly vertically-integrated design.

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Why All Architects Should Tackle an Adaptive Reuse Project At Least Once in their Careers

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In 2020, for example, Architizer introduced the “Adaptive Reuse” category to the A+Awards for the first time ever ; the following year, the Pritzker Prize was awarded to Anne Lacaton and Jeanne-Philippe Vassal, indicating that the values of interpreting place, rather than tabula-rasa scenography, were gaining momentum.

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