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Page Southerland Page integrates "past and future" at Texas Capitol Complex

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The Texas Capitol Complex – designed for the Texas Facilities Commission – spans approximately 150 acres across 40 city blocks around the Texas State Capitol. We hope this project will enhance urban spaces in the city, contributing to the State of Texas' and Austin's unique, vibrant identity." & Elec.

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Land Morphology and Olson Kundig update Oregon botanical garden

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Located in southeast Portland , the city-owned park encompasses 16 acres (6.5 In addition to Olson Kundig, Land Morphology worked with a dozen speciality consultants, a 14-person community advisory committee, the City of Portland and a group called Leach Garden Friends. hectares) and is open to the public. Top: photo is by Aaron Leitz.

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Henning Larsen creates gridded facade for Minneapolis Public Service Building

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The Minneapolis Public Service Building sits within the city's Government District in the downtown area, right next to bus and light rail stops. The architects worked closely with the City of Minneapolis and public advocates on the project. The office facility brings together 10 city departments.

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Student Performing Arts Center by Steven Holl Architects

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The Ostrava Concert Hall expansion in the Czech Republic, scheduled to break ground in 2023, adds a 1,300-seat concert hall to the original center and will be a new cultural landmark for the city. Source by Steven Holl Architects.

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Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, Oregon

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The plans were only partly carried out, and following the deaths of the Leachs, the property was eventually gifted to the City of Portland. Located in southeast Portland, the multi phase Master Plan project will fundamentally transform the botanical garden. Integral to Phase 1 is a new system of trails that reorganizes the garden experience.

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R architecture Creates Flexible Design for the P+R Car Park

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The structural feat for a simple building approaching a civil engineering work, pushes the limits of the concrete with 16m crossing spans and a double helix made of 2 cantilevered ramps. The sustainability of a use is equally important however difficult to estimate. Chosen for both its technical and aesthetic qualities.

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Explorers at Home

Landscape Architecture Magazine

In their wills, they bequeathed their garden, then 13 acres, to the city of Portland for the public’s enjoyment. If the city didn’t take over the land in earnest within a decade, it was to convey to the YMCA—which it very nearly did. The city let the garden lie unclaimed, and in 1980, the YMCA called on the city to make up its mind.

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