Landscape Architecture Magazine

MARCH 14, 2024

To meet the ambitious climate targets ahead, designers, developers, and construction firms need common standards. Schuler Climate Positive Design, whose Pathfinder platform is another emissions calculator, is among the ECHO Project’s participants. The ECHO Project held its inaugural meeting in Seattle in March 2023.

Civil Engineering 76

Civil Engineering Landscape Estimating Regulation 76

Deezen

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The coordinator of the mammoth Great Green Wall project to heal land in Africa 's Sahel region, Elvis Paul Tangem, calls for help from architects in this interview conducted as part of Dezeen's Designing for Disaster series. The Horn of Africa, for example, has been suffering its worst drought in 40 years since 2020.

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Architect Estimating Restoration Management 126

Brandon Donnelly

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

During COVID, every developer was terrified that their costs were going to run way from them. According to this recent Globe and Mail article , residential building costs increased 55% since 2020. Developers will always seek to profit maximize and charge whatever the market will bear, so why bother trying to reduce costs?

Real Estate 53

Real Estate Housing Estimating Development 53

Santa Cruz Architect

AUGUST 24, 2022

Plans for the project were unveiled in 2018.While While the initial design included 21 floors,updates and subsequent approvals brought the total to 25 floors in March of 2020. building codes.

Building 95

Building Estimating Materials Innovation 95

Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Architecture 2030 estimates that the embodied carbon of materials will account for 72 percent of emissions associated with new construction between now and 2030. While such strategies are used in the United States, reuse is often rejected as expensive, logistically complicated, and difficult to implement in traditional design projects.

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Site Landscape Materials Construction 96

Deezen

JULY 6, 2022

A recent graduate of Central Saint Martins' Masters in Material Futures, Steinhage developed the blanket as part of her project exploring ways to make renewable energy products more accessible and affordable – a project she called People Power. The heated blanket has threads of conductive yarn running through it for heating.

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Sustainability Estimating Windows Government 133

Architizer

JANUARY 2, 2023

While most architects will simply continue-on with their existing projects and plans, some see the new year as a blank canvas, a chance to imagine, create and explore new possibilities. Tainan Spring by MVRDV , Tainan, Taiwan, 2020. Jury Winner, 2020 A+Awards, Architecture +Urban Transformation. Photo by Stephane Brugger.

Renovation 79

Renovation Real Estate Environment Estimating 79

BD+C

JUNE 19, 2023

Any conversion project requires critical consideration of the existing building conditions: the size of the floorplate, the placement of the building on the block, the viability of the MEP systems, even the condition of the window. Adaptive reuse projects have the potential for delivery to the market faster than new construction.

Residential 109

Residential Real Estate Renovation Remodeling 109

Deezen

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

billion people did not have access to basic sanitation services such as private toilets or latrines in 2020. The bins can store 20 litres of solid waste and 30 litres of liquid waste, which Read estimates would allow a household of seven to go around nine days without needing to empty the containers. But globally, more than 1.7

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Estimating Students Development Developer 108

Architizer

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

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.

Cities 76

Cities Estimating Technology Technology 76

Deezen

JANUARY 20, 2022

Architects should use their influence to help bring an end to London's homelessness crisis, said housing specialist Peter Barber in an exclusive interview with Dezeen, but admits his projects are "just scratching the surface" of the problem. The studio's McGrath Road project in London recently won the RIBA Neave Brown Award for Housing.

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Housing Estimating Government Architect 134

Dwell

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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 I had a bit of spare change, and I wanted to do a passion project," he says. "I million acres of forest.

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Building Construction Construction Estimating 91

Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Over the years she worked on several projects around Larkmead, including restoration work along the Napa River and Selby Creek. “It Baker says the Glass Fire in 2020 started just up the road from Larkmead and burned in a U shape around the winery. “It It actually burned up the river and the creek, [which] acted like wicks.

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Permits Landscape Estimating Zoning 90

Bustler

MAY 15, 2023

The World Health Organization estimates that almost 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day in 2020. In addition, the fieldwork, data collection, and prototype development, among additional research, will all result in the first Architectural Manual for Culturally Safe Births.

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Mining Firms Foundation Education 98

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

The head of a site furnishings manufacturer in the Bay Area said that in recent months he’d seen the price of the cold-rolled steel he needs for his products rise by 246 percent over that of January 2020. Project owners are still surprised to learn that what they want will cost more than they want, and that they’ll get it when they get it.

Estimating 84

Estimating Management Landscape Materials 84

Deezen

MARCH 31, 2023

By combining the local timber tradition with innovative technology and engineering, the city's wood heritage is now being brought into a new era," said project architect Maria Orvesten. The studio hopes the project will help to raise the status of mass timber and encourage its uptake in architecture. "As

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Design Structure Engineering Engineering 98

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2022

Gulf State Park in Alabama is one of the largest public projects to be funded through the Deepwater Horizon settlement. As a culture of beachgoing developed on the Gulf Coast throughout the 20th century, the park became the crown jewel of Alabama’s state park system. BY JARED BREY. Many more are coming. Photo by Volkert, Inc.,

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Restoration Landscape Estimating Project 109

Architizer

MARCH 3, 2022

Women have been the creative force behind dozens of winning projects in recent seasons, from B.L.U.E. This willingness to put things together in an unorthodox way is reflected in the firm’s 2017 project Square House , a 2018 Jury Winner in the A+Awards in the Private House Category. Anna Maria Bordas. Cécile Brisac. Alison Brooks.

Architecture 101

Architecture Firms Inspiration Education 101

e-architect

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Contemporary Japanese Architectural Developments: New Built Environment Updates. Estimated room price: 48,000 JPY – 200,000 JPY. PLP are the master designer and placemaking strategist for the entire development, as well as the architect for two of the four mixed-use towers on the 6.5-hectare Design: PAN- PROJECTS, London.

Building 76

Building Architecture Design Art 76

Architizer

JULY 11, 2023

Improving the Quality of Life for City Dwellers Architects, developers, builders, landscape architects/designers and product manufacturers are the ideal team to create cohesive, functional and sustainable buildings that improve city dwellers’ quality of life. 90-unit housing development in Saint-Ouen , France, by Atelier du Pont.

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Roofing Renovation Architect Landscape 56

Architizer

AUGUST 16, 2022

Project Status: Built. Year: 2020. The building’s design is respectful of the special character of the area, and the project animates the West End’s public realm with a ground-oriented landscape design, and public art that references the site’s local history and geography. Size: 100,000 sqft – 300,000 sqft.

Sustainability 75

Sustainability Residential Architect Consulting 75

Architecture Ideas

DECEMBER 16, 2022

If this is an investment in a new building, you need to estimate the following: timing when the house will be commissioned and will be able to generate income; all the potential risks associated with construction delays. The real estate market is quite hard but it can make you good profits if invested in the right projects at the right time.

Real Estate 69

Real Estate Construction Construction Home 69

Deezen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

million tonnes estimated by the organisers and that the offsetting schemes which form the basis for the neutrality claim have a "low level of environmental integrity". A similar debate raged ahead of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics , with accusations of "greenwashing". World Cup "huge opportunity to research and develop" sustainable stadiums.

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Sustainability Events Estimating Education 122

Architizer

MARCH 21, 2022

Want to earn global recognition for your projects? As we understand more about our predecessors’ past failings to protect our planet, there is an explicit drive to ensure the negative impact of development is minimized as one of the ways to ensure our future. Want to earn global recognition for your projects?

Building 96

Building Sustainability Technology Technology 96

e-architect

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Through its new associative and strategic ViVa 2026 project, “Vaincre la Mucoviscidose”, a French association fighting against cystic fibrosis, has set the goal of strengthening bonds to build a stronger community. In 2020, he founded WGA – the William Gonord Architecte agency.

Renovation 54

Renovation Residential Management Safety 54

Architecture Here and There

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The aim, according to the Albany Riverfront Collaborative , is to replace the eleven-lane highway, built in the early ’70s, with a ground-level boulevard lined with 93 acres of parks, housing and commercial development. All project elements that were not vehicular, such as the parks and river walks, got a 100-percent match from the U.S.

Transportation 59

Transportation Restoration Cities Development 59

Deezen

JULY 7, 2023

How and why new products are developed is driven by social dynamics, regulations and economic forces." The concept began as Tilley's final-year project at RMIT University in 2018, featuring a flexible set of tyres that wraps securely around a wheelchair's existing on-road tyres.

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Design Manufacturing Estimating Events 96

Architizer

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Yet, as many of us learned throughout 2020, working from home can lead to an encroachment of work into life and vice-versa. The rise of home-based workers globally, currently estimated at 12.7% The rise of home-based workers globally, currently estimated at 12.7% of all full-time employees with a further 28.2%

Residential 59

Residential Design Environment Modern 59

SW Oregon Architect

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Laird Memorial Library Expansion & Renovation Building projects do not happen overnight. I’ve been involved in several such projects, one of which—the expansion and renovation of the Flora M. The modest mid-century Modernist design was originally constructed in 1953 in accordance with a design developed by Max P.

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Concept Estimating Architecture Renovation 221

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 2, 2022

On August 10, 2020, a massive storm ripped through Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and the surrounding area. All told, hundreds of thousands of trees were estimated lost—about 65 percent of the city’s urban canopy. The 2020 derecho took out trees across Cedar Rapids, Iowa’s parks and neighborhoods. By Kevan Klosterwill.

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IT Education Cities Landscape 88

Architizer

JANUARY 3, 2022

As a result, pressure is rapidly mounting for designers to rethink the materials they champion in their projects. In response, the material industry is also responding by investing in research and development. In fact, there are several cases where the national policies currently in place are actually hampering industry development.

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Industrial Regulation Government Architecture 68

Landscape Architecture Magazine

JUNE 30, 2022

And this created favorable conditions for the development of peatlands. They cover less than 3 percent of the global land surface, yet estimates suggest they contain twice as much carbon as the world’s forests. They have been doing this for more than 10,000 years. Peatlands represent one of the largest carbon pools in the biosphere.

Regulation 71

Regulation Mining Environment Landscape 71

e-architect

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Grant Associates Vath, English Landscape Architects, Projects, Public Realm Designs Images. Contemporary Landscape Architecture Practice, Bath, England: Projects + Office News. The Shenzhen Bay Culture Park is a 9-ha mixed use new development. Grant Associates : Landscape Architects. post updated 16 December 2022. 16 Dec 2022.

Landscape 52

Landscape Architect Masterplanning Contract 52

Bustler

JULY 20, 2022

One element is however being lost: the gardens in which every day, we develop a close relationship with plants. After this initial phase, we will draw up a short-list: those who are selected will access a second phase in a restricted form and will be invited to produce a detailed project for a specific area to be assigned to them.

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Students Sketching Estimating Landscape 40

SW Oregon Architect

JANUARY 7, 2024

I have enjoyed the opportunity to work on a variety of significant projects throughout my career. Beyond providing the programs with state-of-the-art teaching facilities, the key project goals include prominently showcasing the LCC health and wellness community and improving visual and physical connections with the overall campus.

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Building Utilities Schematic Design Site 209

Architecture Quote

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Thanks to a growing market of architecture software tools , we’re all producing high-end work and delivering projects faster than ever. Here are 140+ software tools architecture firms need to know about to stay ahead in 2020. Software for Discovering Architecture Competitions, Tenders, and Freelance Projects.

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Architecture Firm Firms Architecture Management 52

e-architect

APRIL 27, 2023

The Museum’s project – which will be largely funded by private donations – focuses on strengthening the DMA’s work with its communities, creating stronger civic connections, transforming the welcome for visitors with new facilities, and expanding education and gallery space – all underpinned by a thorough modernization. ‘We

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Art Structural Engineering Design Engineering 55