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The next phase of sustainability in luxury hotels

BD+C

As guests become more ecologically savvy, they want assurance that their stay will be as eco-friendly as possible, and their questions are compelling new approaches to the sustainability of luxury hotel facilities. And consumers are happy to spend more money on those brands.

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

Community Architect

In the previous blog about transportation in Rotterdam I touched on Rotterdam's devastating bombing in a Nazi Germany air raid that turned much of historic Rotterdam into rubble and cost over 700 lives in a single night and how the city planners have turned this tragedy into an opportunity of re-invention and development that came in various phases.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

That’s what recent A+Awards winners have taught us, with more women than ever leading teams in conceptualizing, designing and delivering some of the world’s best architecture around the globe. Women have been the creative force behind dozens of winning projects in recent seasons, from B.L.U.E. Find out more about the jury here. Amale Andraos.

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Being Architect: Lessons from the Past: Rowhouse Density (2)

Community Architect

Giddy to meet real people in a real building and curious to hear the backstory of this adaptive reuse from the locally well known storyteller, developer and investor Charlie Duff, I ducked under a crane and remaining scaffold into the first floor office area. I must have looked quite puzzled behind my mask. I had found none.

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Density - Dirty Word or Solution?

Community Architect Daily

Especially affordable housing is in low supply, across the US, in Maryland and in almost every local jurisdiction. The causes are multiple. Discriminatory regulations are alive and well to this day, often in the guise of respectable goals. Fear of density, however, remains.

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Is Density a Dirty Word or a Solution?

Community Architect

Today for the first time I publish an article written for my local blog ( Community Architect Daily ) also on this national and International site because of its national relevance in spite of the local examples. A history of separation The nation is ripped by a housing crisis. Fear of density, however, remains.

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Book Reviews: Robert Moses and Harry Weese - Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Norton & Company, 2007 The gold standard for 20th century biography is Robert Caro’s exhaustive and pain stakingly researched The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. about me Lets Work Together Frequently Asked Questions Do you want to be an Architect? Jackson Published by W.