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From Cubicles to Community: The City Beyond the Office (1of 2)

Community Architect

The North American Downtown, a skyline of office towers: Denver, CO (Photo: Philipsen) And now this: "The sad state of office buildings could cause something called the “doom loop.” Each time shape and architecture changed but the city remained. In the 20th century the American citywith its downtown office skyline has become a global model.

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SHoP employees plan to unionise to prevent "exploitation of our time and our talent"

Deezen

Employees of New York-based SHoP Architects have announced plans to form the US's first union of architecture workers since the 1940s in response to an alleged culture of "endless overtime and deadlines". They revealed their plans in a letter sent to their employers on 20 December, which was reported by the New York Times. "We

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Putting 9 senior living market trends into perspective

BD+C

Simply building something that is well-located and staffed with skilled care givers and labeling it “luxury senior living” won’t do the trick. Amenities include casual and fine dining, fitness center, pool, and on-site therapy. 2. The real money in senior living is made in operations and building a valuable brand.

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Rotterdam (3) - The Next Economy

Community Architect

The Benton Building: Home of Baltimore's city departments When the Rotterdam hosts mentioned their struggles with inequity, poverty, wealth disparities, disinvestment, displacement, air pollution and traffic, we guests scratched our heads in wonderment, since those ailments were well hidden from view.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Think of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Central Park or Baltimore's National Aquarium and Science Center at the Inner Harbor). The layers of the open space that is the Inner Harbor: The water forms the innermost frame, the promenade the next, then the pavilions, the streets and finally the buildings on the far side of the street.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

From the outside, the elegant New York Home seems clean and modernist, with glazed walls that seem to nod to iconic 20th century buildings like the Farnsworth House. And these buildings are not only efficient and affordable, they are quite beautiful, retaining the clean lines and dramatic angles that characterize her work for wealthy clients.

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What do Plastic and Paint have in Common? Everything.

Architizer

Healthy Materials Lab is a design research lab at Parsons School of Design with a mission to place health at the center of every design decision. But, there is new evidence of an under-reported key player in our plastics crisis: paint. Lime-Painted Ceiling by Salty Labs, Pedagogy ike Shop NYC, 2022. Let’s start with the bad.