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IQON by BIG completes first building in South America

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After four years of construction, IQON rises 130 m making it the tallest building in the Ecuadorian capital of Quito – a city with one of the highest elevations in the world. Traditionally a city of dense low-rise buildings, the skyline of Quito was re-imagined following the relocation of the city-center airport over a decade ago.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

Nationwide, office vacancies stand at 17%, with some big cities—San Francisco, Houston, Austin—topping 30%, while the U.S. But making an adaptive reuse project pencil out in a tight financing market isn’t so simple. which requires buildings to be upgraded to 75% of new code level for change of occupancy from commercial to residential.

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IQON Quito, Ecuador mixed-use building

e-architect

After four years of construction, IQON rises 130 m making it the tallest building in the Ecuadorian capital Quito – a city with one of the highest elevations in the world. Traditionally a city of dense low-rise buildings, the skyline of Quito was re-imagined following the relocation of the city-center airport over a decade ago.

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Chengdu Jiaozi Courtyard Towers, Peoples Republic of China

e-architect

With a dramatic cantilever and façade details inspired by the bamboo-weaving traditions of the region, the conference centre serves as an eye-catching addition to the site’s most prominent corner, facing the Tianfu International Finance Centre.

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Event: Building Socially Sustainable Communities: Bridging the Divide at Essex Crossing

Bustler

Event Date: Jun 8, 2022; Event City: New York, NY, US FILM SCREENING + PANEL DISCUSSION Hybrid Format: In-Person Tickets & Zoom Tickets Available 1.5 Spanning eight city blocks on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Essex Crossing is among the largest redevelopment projects ever attempted in New York City.

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Beauty, Ma’am, if you can keep it

Architecture Here and There

Forces are gathering to undo much of the good work done in recent decades to improve the city of Providence. City and state officials are drooling at the gusher of allegedly free federal funds flowing from Washington, hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are falling for the most fiscally unsound schemes to spend the money.

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Here Is What COVID-19 Will Do to Architecture and Cities

Community Architect

People with those convictions certainly don't think that architecture or cities will change. Already the NYT is reporting a wave of people fleeing New York City for the suburbs. The trends already had significant impacts on the built environment, especially on the liveliness and urbanity of cities, some good, some bad.

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