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List of America’s Most Endangered Historic Places for 2024 shows expanded 'collective idea of American history'

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The pair was joined by nine other sites in eight states, Morocco, and the U.S. The full list of America's Most Endangered Historic Places, compiled by the National Trust for Historic Preservation , includes: Cindy Walker House, Mexia, Texas Eatonville, Florida Estate Whim Museum, Frederiksted, St. Virgin Islands. Croix, U.S.

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Social Housing in America: Architects Must Answer the Call

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Boston Road provides 154 units of housing for formerly homeless people, many of them seniors and living with HIV/AIDS, as well as low-income working adults from the South Bronx. Image © Michael Moran If you follow housing policy in America , you may have noticed a particular term cropping up a lot recently: social housing.

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Economic and political obstacles stand in way of office-to-residential conversion projects

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These conversions seem like a win-win: turning a plethora of barely used office space into desperately needed urban housing. Various cities across the United States have been turning to office-to-residential conversions as a way to address declining city cores that have yet to reach pre-pandemic levels. In Washington D.C.,

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Empire State Development approves massive Penn Station redevelopment proposal

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New York State officials on Thursday approved a sweeping redevelopment of Midtown Manhattan that would transform Pennsylvania Station, the busiest transportation hub in North America, from a run-down transit center into a city centerpiece. It also includes a long-overdue renovation of Penn Station.

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Jun Mitsui & Associates convert grocery store into sake brewery in Upstate New York

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Tokyo-based Jun Mitsui & Associates has converted an abandoned grocery store into a sake brewery in Upstate New York in partnership with US studio Pelli Clarke & Partners. Partly because the client was a Japanese brewer who mainly makes sake, we also incorporated 'Japanese-ness' into the design."

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What Would a Green New Deal for Public Housing Actually Do?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders’s plan would open the door to new construction, but its focus would be making existing buildings more sustainable. The Green New Deal was formally introduced to the American public as a congressional resolution by then-newly elected Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward J.

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An Organization Is Using History to Rehab Public Housing

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Public housing—the kind New Yorkers are most familiar with, slabs of brick surrounded by grass and asphalt—might not be everybody’s aesthetic cup of tea. It’s a rare approach, but in a chat with Dwell, Cirllio explains how public housing’s past could pave the way to its future. That’s where Chris Cirillo steps in.

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