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Competitions: Open International Urban Planning Competition for The "New Kharkhorum" City of Mongolia

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Registration Deadline: Apr 15, 2024; Submission Deadline Jul 16, 2024 We want to draw your attention to an open international competition call for submissions for the master planning project of Mongolia's new city, "New Kharkhorum." If Mongolia were to build a new capital city successfully, it could benefit the country in several ways.

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GO'C places arts centre on former Seattle gas station site to "heal an urban problem"

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Local studio GO'C drew on the aesthetics of a 1930s gas station to create Mini Mart City Park, a community arts centre in Seattle that aims to show the potential of remediated brownsites. Also important was the remediation of the contaminated site, often referred to as a brownfield site.

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TVK designs limestone buildings for "first zero-carbon district" in Paris

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Located on a triangular site in Paris's 19th arrondissement, the project is "the capital's first zero-carbon district", according to TVK. TVK claims the 35,200-square-metre development is the largest load-bearing stone building site since Georges-Eugène Haussmann's reconstruction of Paris in the mid-19th century.

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Sparano + Mooney positions cedar home over canyon in Utah

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Local studio Sparano + Mooney Architecture cantilevered two envelopes with blackened-cedar siding over a canyon outside of Salt Lake City , Utah. Sparano + Mooney created the cantilevered home near Salt Lake City. bath house out of two volumes with floor-to-ceiling glazed ends that float above the landscape.

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Google opens New York headquarters built on renovated 1930s train terminal

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Google has opened a building serving its North American operations in New York City that is housed in a 1930s rail terminal restored and adapted by architecture studios CookFox Architects and Gensler. Site developer: Oxford Properties Architect of record : Adamson Associates, P.C. But you did. That's the genius of Google. said Hochul.

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Revitalizing a Contaminated Site: The Ford Calumet Environmental Center

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Tom Daly: Historically, Chicago’s Southeast Side has been burdened with the effects of industrialization and left with remnants of steel production in the region of the city. The design serves as an example for a progressive future of building in the City of Chicago, a city known for design innovation. miles from the site.

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Brooklyn Basin Township Commons // Einwiller Kuehl Landscape

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Urban design critic John King of the San Francisco Chronicle described Township Commons as “a startling act of urban reinvention that, with time, should pull people from across the city to an area that until now has been off the map” The new park welcomes Oakland residents back to their waterfront with a bold and brave definition of a park.