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JANUARY 23, 2024

The team behind the Boardwalk at Bricktown development in Oklahoma City is to request a design variance from city officials which, if granted, would see the project become the tallest building in the United States. The record is currently held by One World Trade Center , which measures 1776 feet tall.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

© Jeff Attaway A city that defies expectations, this is what many visitors often express about the Senegalese capital, Dakar. As Africa's most western port city, which gained independence from the French in 1960, Daka r is a regional hub for diversity and culture. Read more »

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APRIL 13, 2024

The Oklahoma City Planning Commission voted yesterday , April 12th, to recommend its city council's approval of the proposed 1,907-foot-high tower design from AO (fmr. Architects Orange) that would become North America's tallest building when realized.

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JULY 10, 2023

Image Courtesy of Holcim Cities are defined as densely populated geographic areas characterized by urban development. This shift aims to reduce cities' carbon footprint and support collaborative efforts to achieve Sustainable Development goals. Low-carbon Material Solution - ECOPlanet.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In the early 20th century, large quarters in the central part of Dnipro were often developed with small residential houses and auxiliary structures. Forming a dense building perimeter that aligns with the scale of urban spaces in the historical center remains pertinent in 21st-century cities.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

Bombay is a tough city in which to build anything of real reckoning. The rapid and random development of the city continued from the late. Completed in 2024 in Mumbai, India. Images by PHX India.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

8 Bishopsgate Wins the 2024 City Building of the Year Award The prestigious 2024 City Building of the Year Award , established by the Architects’ Company, has been awarded to 8 Bishopsgate , a 50-storey mixed-use tower designed by WilkinsonEyre for Mitsubishi Estate/Stanhope.

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AUGUST 4, 2024

Planning officials in the coastal Brazilian city of Balneário Camboriú have just entered the race for the world’s tallest residential building after approving plans from an unnamed architect for the new 100-story, 1,785-foot Triumph Tower.

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JANUARY 23, 2024

Matteson Capital and AO, the developer and architect behind a new mixed-use development, Boardwalk at Bricktown, have come back from the drawing board with a new skyscraper design in Oklahoma The post AO and developers revise speculative Oklahoma City supertall to make it tallest building in U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Architecture curator Manijeh Verghese has been announced as the CEO of Open City, which runs the Open House London festival. Verghese, who was announced as Open City 's new CEO today, wants the organisation to focus on changing cities for the better.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Related and Wynn’s new proposal would sweep away the years of civic engagement that led to a 2009 rezoning of the proposed development site. The agreement they're referring to pertains to the aesthetic agreement of any new developments with the existing character of the High Line. We have just one chance to get this right.

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JUNE 20, 2024

This project involves a relatively compact tenant building situated in the heart of Tokyo. Facing an intersection, the site is located directly above a subway station at the end of a series of large-scale developments stretching from Otemachi to Hibiya Street.

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MAY 12, 2023

OMA , along with Circlewood, a coalition of architects, engineers, builders, and researchers, have developed a modular wood system to build a variety of schools in Amsterdam. This project aims to support the city’s goal to halve the use of primary raw materials by 2030 and become fully circular by 2050.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2022

A new desktop city-building game has been launched which takes aim at the slow pace of housing construction in U.S. Sim Nimby was developed by Brooklyn-based copywriters Steve Nass and Owen Weeks as a tongue-in-cheek commentary on what they view as 'NIMBYs' (Not In My Backyard neighbors) opposing new urban housing developments.

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Archinect

JULY 18, 2024

This week's edition of our curated jobs roundup from Archinect Jobs highlights ten architecture firms and one school currently hiring Marketing & Business Development specialists in New York City. Roy and Diana Vagelos Education Center by Diller Scofidio + Renfro.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

An aerial shot of the buildings in Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Image © Wirestock Creators via Shutterstock Located in the Central Mountains of Honduras , Tegucigalpa stands as the country's largest city. It was declared the capital in 1880 and has since developed into the political, cultural, and economic heart of Honduras.

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JUNE 12, 2023

Frank Gehry ’s biggest-ever contribution to the city in which he was born is now underway after construction began on the two-tower Forma condominium scheme in downtown Toronto. You think about the buildings in other cities like Rockefeller Center, where there’s an ensemble of buildings that create publ.

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APRIL 17, 2024

Courtesy of ODA New York-based architecture office ODA has unveiled their design for Lorimer House and Copper Lofts, a development comprised of two residential buildings located in East Williamsburg in New York City.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

Oklahoma City could soon be home to the country’s second-tallest structure if plans for a new 1,750-foot skyscraper designed by the California practice Architects Orange (AO) are approved along with a larger $1 billion entertainment district proposal from developer Scot Matteson.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

Image © Cobe Danish architecture firm Cobe has announced a new project to transform the historic 'Krulli' steelworks, a large-scale former industrial site in Estonia's capital, into a mixed-use city district. Read more »

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JUNE 1, 2022

New photos have been released of Álvaro Siza’s completed 611 West 56th Street , the Pritzker Prize-winning architect’s first designed building in the United States. The project was jointly developed by Sumaida + Khurana and LENY. I didn’t expect to have the opportunity to build in Manhattan.

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APRIL 3, 2024

The Boston City Council passed a measure Wednesday to shift planning authority away from the Boston Planning and Development Agency, a body that's reshaped much of the city in the 20th century and has faced criticism for the power it wields over building and urban renewal. as overwhelmingly white and male.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

Today, the Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) selected Singapore’s Pan Pacific Orchard as the Best Tall Building Worldwide for 2024. The new 23-story title holder was completed last year as the city’s 124th tallest building.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Euro American Innovation City. Image © Foster + Partners Situated in Hangzhou's Central Business District, the Euro American Innovation City is a mixed-use development designed by Foster+Partners to become a dynamic addition to the city.

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DECEMBER 20, 2023

Zaha Hadid Architects has designed a high-rise building in the Czech Republic adjacent to one of Prague’s major railway stations. Containing office and retail uses, the 300,000-square-foot development incorporates seven stories within its eastern section and nine stories at its western end.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Image © Firefighter Montreal via Shutterstock Montreal , located along the Saint Laurent River in Southern Quebec , is Canada’s second-largest city. As a former territory of " Nouvelle France ," French language and culture remain dominant, which has in turn influenced the city's architectural character.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

Image © Rayon Rayon , an innovative online design tool that aims to create a new collaborative approach to developing "mundane buildings" within the city , has been selected as part of ArchDaily's 2023 Best New Practices. The software company believes that there is a “culture of the ordinary” in architecture.

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat has selected Singapore’s Pan Pacific Orchard as the Best Tall Building Worldwide for 2024. The new 23-story title holder was completed last year as the city’s 124th tallest building.

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APRIL 12, 2024

A skyscraper designed by New York studio SHoP Architects at Detroit' s Hudson's Detroit development has topped out, making it the second tallest building in the city. Named the Tower, the 681-foot-high (207 metre) skyscraper forms part of a larger development in Downtown Detroit called Hudson's Detroit.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Today, the Softwood Lumber Board and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture announced their joint selection of five outstanding projects as part of the Timber in the City 5: Urban Habitats Competition. A three-member jury of academics chose from a slate of more than 600 participants.

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DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Urban Land Institute (ULI) has today announced Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo as its selection for the 2023 ULI Prize for Visionaries in Urban Development, one of the industry’s leading honors for community building and development worldwide.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Waste from the city of Ghent, Belgium, is being turned into the building blocks of a major cultural institution. Together, they developed an energy-saving method that takes ground construction waste materials , mainly crushed concrete, masonry, and glass, from demolished buildings and infuses lime to form dry-cured bricks.

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MAY 1, 2024

Mexico border is a region of vast historical, cultural, and economic significance, where cities of fundamental importance to North America have emerged. Tijuana —located in northeastern Mexico—, is one of these cities. Historically, the city has been a melting pot of nuances reflected in its urban landscape. Read more »

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MARCH 4, 2024

Courtesy of c40 | Venice Proposed Site 2024 “Reinventing Cities,” C40’ s renowned global design competition , has just announced its fourth edition. The competition’s main goal is to “transform underutilized sites or buildings into beacons of sustainability and resilience and act as a showcase for future zero-carbon urban developments.

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JUNE 13, 2023

Vietnam -based architecture practice Tropical Space has completed an office building in Ho Chi Minh City featuring perforated brick walls. Named Premier Office, the scheme was developed with attention to maximizing natural light throughout the rental office spaces without exposing the interior to intense direct sunlight.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The article they published recently in the Elsevier journal Automation in Construction presented the potential for a new multi-scale monitoring system informed by deep-learning algorithms that work to find cracks and other damage to buildings before using LiDAR to produce three-dimensional images for inspectors to aid in their documentation.

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DECEMBER 24, 2022

Tall buildings that were in the works got scaled down or canceled on the assumption that soaring towers were too risky to be built or occupied. “There were all sorts of public statements that we’re never going to build tall again,” one architect told The Guardian. “It’s not trying to blend in.

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