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Outdoor dining in New York City to become permanent — and stricter

Archinect

Outdoor dining along New York City streets, one of the rare pandemic-era accommodations that proved popular, is set to become permanent — but in a way that could drive many restaurant owners to take down their streetside sheds for good. Previously on Archinect: Third wave Open Streets: Open for whom?

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Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad?

Dwell

Marcus Houston, the senior vice president of client growth and development at shipping strategist Transportation Insight , is based in the western part of the state. This region includes the city of High Point , which calls itself the furniture capital of the world. This innovation opened up new avenues for penny-pinching.

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Five designers in Mexico exhibit new uses for biomaterials

Deezen

Called Deconstructed Home, the exhibition was set up as part of a two-week programme organised by Space10 , a research arm of IKEA. The materials ranged from beeswax to soil and the final projects will travel throughout Mexico after the initial exhibition at LOOT , a gallery in Mexico City, which took place 26 March to 9 April 2022.

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OSO to suspend Boeing 747 aircraft between two buildings in Seattle

Deezen

"To incorporate an entire 747 fuselage into our project is an opportunity to both highlight Boeing’s legacy and its history in the City of Seattle," said Westbank. The airplane is currently being deconstructed at Boeing's airfield in California. Photo is Lukas Dong.

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Force Majeure exhibition shines a light on 16 African and diasporic designers

Deezen

It imagines Africa using indigenous knowledge to develop an unprecedented system for zero-emissions energy production, which leads to the creation of an Africa-centric international transport network. The Venice Architecture Biennale takes place from 20 May to 26 November 2023.

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The Ecological Future of our mobilities by Vincent Callebaut Architectures

aasarchitecture

The mobility of the future will be more diverse, smarter, more shared, cleaner and greener.The fact that the transport sector is globally responsible for the largest share of CO2 emissions in the world, 24%, and that each motorist spends an average of 90 hours a year in traffic jams shows that things cannot continue like this.

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STICK SNAP STACK Explores an Alternative Construction System

Architizer

To overcome the conventional challenge of shipping and labor costs, we aimed to consider full reconfigurability, easy assembly and disassembly, and transportation from the initial stage. While globalization and consumer culture are homogenizing our built environment, cities also celebrate the heterogeneous desires from diverse people.