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Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

Deezen

The crisis is having a major impact on architecture firms, with once-reliable clients no longer commissioning projects. Among 13 publicly listed architecture firms in China, only one saw revenue growth in the 2022 financial year. Photo by Simbaxu. It would then be very difficult to get paid."

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First look: Goettsch Partners reveals 'lighthouse' tower scheme for China resort

BD+C

Architecture firm Goettsch Partners has unveiled its design for a new resort and meeting destination on China’s Hainan Island in Haitang Bay.

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LWK + PARTNERS Architects, Hong Kong

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The architecture firm leveraged its proximity to both urban life and natural greenery to craft an observation deck culminating at the end of the city’s main artery. The Cityscape Awards for Emerging Markets recognises and celebrates excellence across real estate developments and architecture. 20 Oct 2019.

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Taking A Different Path

EntreArchitect

I focused on running the business, leading the marketing and business development efforts, sales, finances, and resource management. I participated in the design of some of projects while my partners and our employees executed most of the architecture work beyond schematic design. Another got into teaching design.

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Guardian Building Bridge

A Detroit Architect's Journal

Known today as The Smith Group JJR, the historic firm is located on the building's 17th floor. It was nicknamed the Cathedral of Finance and is particularly known for it's vaulted Lobby and pewabic tile decorated Banking Hall. One year later, DTE Energy sells the Guardian Building to a private real estate investor: The Sterling Group.

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Here Is What COVID-19 Will Do to Architecture and Cities

Community Architect

Office as a real estate asset or as a building type is a sluggish animal. So the immediate task at hand are adaptations about which I wrote in a previous article ( Adapting Architecture to Social Distancing ). The open plan office was always more liked by architects and finance CEOs than by employees, anyway.

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"Cities are branding themselves into predictably unique products"

Deezen

Read: Norman Foster launches academic institute to "improve the quality of life in cities" But now that the interests of finance, insurance, and real estate (FIRE) industries have supplanted manufacturing in nearly every major city, rents are climbing ever upward. But what to do about new construction?

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