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How 8 Bishopsgate is defying London’s commercial real estate slump

The Spaces

You just have to build somewhere people actually want to work. It helps that the Wilkinson Eyre -designed building came to market in June with a number of accolades that resonated with occupiers looking to lure office-goers back. People can use a great office to retain their best staff and recruit better staff.’

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Norman Foster "to assemble the best minds" to rebuild Ukrainian city of Kharkiv

Deezen

"The first step would be a city masterplan linked to the region, with the ambition to combine the most loved and revered heritage from the past with the most desirable and greenest elements of infrastructure and buildings — in other words, to deliver the city of the future now and to plan for its life decades ahead," he said.

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Foster's plans for Kharkiv rebuild are "100 per cent ineffective" says Ukrainian architect

Deezen

Following a meeting with Kharkiv mayor Ihor Terekhov, Foster is set to recruit a team of "world-leading experts" that will immediately start drawing up a master plan for the city's reconstruction. Quarter of Kharkiv buildings destroyed. Not just to give people back everything they lost and give them a new foundation in life.".

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Atelier Mas?m? unveils design for geometric Bët-bi art museum in Senegal

Deezen

Located close to the town of Kaolack in southwestern Senegal, in a region that is known for its ancient stone megaliths, the 1,000-square-metre building was designed in response to its surroundings. Museum to build on "significance of the area". The Bët-bi museum will be constructed using traditional building methods.

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Architecture education needs "decolonisation and decarbonisation" says London School of Architecture head Neal Shasore

Deezen

during its refurbishment has been repeatedly touted as a reason the building became so unsafe. The Open Up campaign has already secured £30,000 from a collaboration with the Stephen Lawrence Day Foundation (SLDF) to develop a programme to combat the profession's "systemic barriers to diversity". That means something to a Black man.".

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The College Football Facilities Arms Race

SW Oregon Architect

The new building will complement, rather than replace, Oregon’s current indoor practice facility, the Moshofsky Center. The press release did not list the members of the design team or who will build the project (if any of you know, post a comment below). UBC’s enrollment is 66,000, almost three times that of the University of Oregon.

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Copenhagen at risk of "becoming homogenous and self-satisfied" warns CAFx director

Deezen

"I believe we need to refine our sense of place and 'get in tune' with our planetary boundaries, social structures, mental health, our history, nature and cultural heritage in the way we build and plan.". Michau: The foundation of evaluating spatial design is ethical, so we have to be careful of the universalism implicit in city rankings.

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