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BIG and A+ Architects Reveal Design for Mass Timber Transport Hub in France

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The design of the new hub takes cues from the city’s distinctive roofscape and the traditional use of the rose-colored “foraine” brick, employing a mass timber structure and low-carbon concrete to ensure a sustainable intervention adapted to its environment. The Hub is set to begin construction in 2026. Read more »

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British AEC groups urge government action on embodied carbon regulations

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Their call endorses an amalgam of existing policy pushes while espousing lawmakers to include at least a portion of its findings into their respective manifestos with benchmarks for specific mandates and enforcements set for the end of this year, 2026, and 2028, respectively.

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Exciting architecture fellowships to apply to in January 2024

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Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto, invites applications for a two-year Emerging Architect Fellowship Award in areas of architectural research and design, with particular focus on topics that address issues of climate and the built environment. Learn more here.

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Is shipping container architecture really sustainable?

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Ultimately, removing containers from the circular economy by retrofitting them into usable spaces could put a strain on the industry and result in the need to use more iron ore, causing even more harm to the environment. billion by the year 2026. A simple technology, they have helped facilitate global trade like no other.

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Get ready for a big boom in vertical farming schemes

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At a time when supply chain disruptions continue to slow distribution, consumers embrace healthy eating habits and climate change is expected to affect crop yields, a practice known as controlled-environment agriculture, including indoor vertical farms relying on artificial light and technology, is attracting venture capitalists.

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Foster + Partners designs Hollywood offices with spiralling plant-covered terraces

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The circular tower is wrapped in spiraling terraces The terraces will also offer natural light and ventilation to create a "healthy and highly productive" working environment, according to Foster + Partners senior partner Patrick Campbell. If approved, the project will break ground in 2026 according to the team.

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CookFox Architects designs mass-timber Bruce Springsteen museum

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American studio CookFox has designed a museum dedicated to American musician Bruce Springsteen "Storytelling, perhaps the motivation for Springsteen's career as well as the formation of his archives, can also be experienced through the built environment," said the team.

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