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It shouldn’t take 17 years to build affordable housing

Brandon Donnelly

If you are the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority and you own excess land next to a transit line that you’ve just recently built, one possible option could be to give this land to a non-profit housing developer so that they can build some affordable housing. million to build. Time isn’t free.

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Neom releases renders of Zaha Hadid Architects' crystalline skyscraper

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This iconic commercial, high-rise tower will provide a rich platform for groundbreaking and tech-infused artistic content and experiences." The development will also contain buildings designed by Dutch practices UNStudio and Mecanoo , US studio Aedas and Australian studio Bureau Proberts.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs crystalline skyscraper above Neom ski resort

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Although full details of the building's use have not yet been revealed, the tower will contain shops, restaurants and exhibition spaces along with observation decks at three different levels. Renders of the skyscraper show a crystal-like structure made of numerous columns that tappers towards the peak.

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Cobe and Lundén Architecture Company win competition for community and municipal building in Finland

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Cobe together with Finnish Lundén Architecture Company have won the competition to design the Espoo House – a 24,000 m2 hybrid municipal building serving both decision-makers, city employees and residents, as well as various residential blocks, in the Finnish city of Espoo.

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MAD designs Nanhai Art Center to emulate "continuous wave of water"

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Encompassing 121,275 square metres, the mixed-use Nanhai Art Center will be divided into three buildings containing a theatre, museum and sports centre. The structure will incorporate tree-like columns According to MAD, the proposal for Nanhai Art Center also features commercial spaces that will be positioned along the waterfront.

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MAD Architects unveils Nanhai Art Center

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The Nanhai Art Center resembles a continuous wave of water, with three main buildings looming underneath the floating sun canopy. The design intends to build a spiritual field by creating a coherent visual axis to the lake. Commercial spaces are placed along the lake, radiating architectural texture to the lakeshore landscape belt.

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"All those complicit in Neom's design and construction are already destroyers of worlds"

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Neom's most notable feature is the linear megastructure – creatively dubbed "The Line" – that will supposedly extrude twinned 150-storey buildings a hundred miles across the desert, with less than the distance between two New York City avenues separating them, and plant a city for nine million in the slot thus created.