ArchDaily

JUNE 12, 2023

© Rasmus Hjortshøj - COAST The redevelopment of maritime and riverfront areas is a crucial element in the transformation of many urban areas, providing a series of significant benefits for cities and their inhabitants. Read more »

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 25, 2023

Image © Rasmus Hjortshøj For most architecture enthusiasts, mentions of the city of Copenhagen will prompt images of pedestrian-friendly streets, suspended bike lanes , quaint water canals, and overall happy residents. The city of Copenhagen has had a somewhat unusual evolution. The major shift appeared in the 1960s. Read more »

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Archinect

JULY 22, 2022

New York State officials on Thursday approved a sweeping redevelopment of Midtown Manhattan that would transform Pennsylvania Station, the busiest transportation hub in North America, from a run-down transit center into a city centerpiece. The Penn Station Redevelopment Plan is set to be one of the largest real estate projects in U.S.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 24, 2022

A network of autonomous cable cars transports people and goods around a city in this concept developed by transport design studio Half Company. Halfgrid is a proposal for a city-wide transport system that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to move suspended capsules to their designated location.

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Architizer

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Underground construction has traditionally been associated with transportation infrastructure, storage facilities and utility tunnels. Consider the possibilities of expanding underground development to encompass a broader range of building typologies. Completed in 2018, the bicycle parking accommodates over 13,500 bikes.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Nineteen neighbourhoods constructed with local materials will define Sultan Haitham City, a metropolis for 100,000 residents that London studio Skidmore, Owings & Merrill is designing in Oman. Read: SOM breaks ground on Alárò City in Nigeria The masterplan involves transforming a 7.5-kilometre-long

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Bustler

MARCH 18, 2024

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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Architizer

JANUARY 9, 2024

It’s not just a building; it’s a micro-city set within a bustling metropolis. The ground floor might house a café, a shared workspace, a fitness center, an art gallery or a dental clinic, creating a dynamic ecosystem that mirrors the diverse heartbeat of a city.

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Architizer

JANUARY 15, 2024

A sustainable process, in turn, facilitates the development of thoughtfully planned, walkable communities that emphasize economic resilience, social inclusiveness and environmental conservation. From a social standpoint, community engagement plays a crucial role in ensuring that developments align with the needs and desires of the residents.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Danish architecture studio BIG has unveiled its masterplan for a 1,000-square-kilometre development in Bhutan that will include an international airport and a hydroelectric dam incorporating a temple. Above: Mindfulness City will be built in Bhutan. They will be built alongside permeable paved streets.

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Archinect

JUNE 30, 2022

Smart city technology should do things like shorten commute times, speed the construction of affordable housing, improve the efficiency of public transit, and reduce carbon emissions by making building technology more efficient and providing less polluting transportation alternatives to the car.

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SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 31, 2024

The City of Eugene mailed a multi-page brochure regarding the Franklin Boulevard Transformation project to neighbors this past February. The elephant in the room (or perhaps rather, not in the room) is what he perceives as another example of the City’s failure to prioritize visionary thinking in its planning processes.

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Deezen

MAY 23, 2022

The Regenerative High-Rise is a concept for a modular timber tower by architecture studio Haptic and engineering firm Ramboll that could be used to transform tricky sites in cities worldwide. It is being developed by Haptic and Ramboll for cities worldwide. The Regenerative High-Rise is a concept for a modular tower.

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Architizer

AUGUST 24, 2023

Yet, in deft hands, transportation structures can transcend this hazy realm of the in-between to become meaningful destinations in their own right. As well as celebrating the immediate landscape, the design emphasizes the socio-historic roots of this transportation method too.

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2024

MVRDV will complete four mixed-use buildings for the 120,000-metre-square development, named WärtZ, with the ambition of creating a "second city centre" south of Zwolle railway station, it said. The post MVRDV designs WärtZ district as "second city centre" for Zwolle appeared first on Dezeen.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

A planner from Edmonton , Canada, has defended its 15-minute city plan after criticism from locals, saying that the plan uses age-old concepts and "will enable the City of Edmonton to support growth more efficiently". Cities are embracing the 15-minute city idea because it is an easy way to explain an old concept."

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Superimpose Architecture completes the mixed-use Sky City TOD hub with a unique and green arrival situation in Hangzhou, China. Transit Oriented Development (TOD) is an urban typology on the rise, especially in China. The TOD will become the main connection and transportation hub of ‘

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Deezen

MARCH 8, 2023

This International Women's Day , Arup 's Sara Candiracci reflects on how cities are still overwhelmingly designed for men – and how to change that. Despite advances being made around the world, billions of women still face issues caused by the gender bias built into the design of cities. As a result, many cities do not work for women.

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2023

Aedas designs the iconic gateway to China’s Greater Bay Area, the Huanggang Port New Development Project in collaboration with Shenzhen CAPOL International & Associates Co., and Shenzhen Transportation Design & Research Institute Co., The post Huanggang Port New Development // Aedas appeared first on Journal.

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

If passed, the Efficient and Green Mobility package would require the 424 largest cities in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to hash out sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) centred on these kinds of "active mobility" modes by 2025. Read: COBE's undulating public square in Copenhagen contains parking for 2,000 bikes.

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Archinect

JANUARY 18, 2022

A team led by Foster + Partners in collaboration with Swedish firm Marge Arkitekter has been unveiled as the winners of the competition for the development of Stockholm Central Station in Stockholm, Sweden. Together their proposal will see the creation of an integrated transport hub for a new pedestrian-friendly mixed-use urban district.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Controversial plans to transform over 50,000 acres of farmland into a city in Solano county, northern California , have been unveiled by a group of investors named Flannery Associates. However, Flannery Associates said it will be working with the local community to develop it. It's not our first rodeo," Moy explained.

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ArchiDiaries

JANUARY 14, 2022

Future Bound, ReImagining Transportation a challenge to visualize the transport infrastructure of a city set in 2100. We have already imagined multiple versions of futuristic cities and their modes of transport from the 70s till now in novels, movies and video games. Fig: 1 – Urban transport (Credits-Joey Kyber).

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Deezen

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has developed Land on Water, a system for constructing floating buildings that aims to be more flexible and sustainable than traditional methods. We think that a system like ours could, in the future, provide a way of organically developing large communities on water," he told Dezeen.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Blue glass discs, hand-painted linen pendants and ombre curtains were combined by design studio Rockwell Group to evoke the Mediterranean coast at this restaurant in New York City. Soft curves and a variety of textures transport guests to a modern abstraction of the coast," the studio said. The photography is by Jason Varney.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Modern cities face many problems: traffic jams, long-distance commuting, polluted urban environment, isolated communities and more. Urban designs and master planning have not had the foresight to prepare older cities for the coming centuries, and there are so many uncertainties ahead. Problematic Cities. Canary Wharf, London.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2022

Cities are the only sustainable way to house Earth's growing population – but the importance of protecting them from climate risks has been "totally underrated", according to Hélène Chartier of sustainable urbanism network C40 Cities. "In The report shows that cities are key players in the fight against global warming , Chartier said.

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The Architect's Newsletter

MARCH 6, 2023

Today, the Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) announced the team of architects and planners bringing transportation infrastructure to the Texan city, The post Austin Transit Partnership announces design and planning team making improvements to the city’s transportation network appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The quarter-mile track through the city’s Corktown neighborhood was developed by the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT) after being announced by Governor Gretchen Whitmer in February of 2022.

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Deezen

AUGUST 1, 2022

As a 170-kilometre-long mirrored megacity in the Saudi desert makes headlines around the world, here is a roundup of 10 futuristic cities currently being planned across the globe. Global issues such as the housing crisis and climate change are galvanising ambitions for a new generation of high-tech cities. The Line, Saudi Arabia.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JULY 16, 2023

Swedish urban developer Atrium Ljungberg has initiated Stockholm Wood City, anticipated to be the world’s largest urban wooden construction project. Stockholm Wood City At 62 acres (250,000 square meters) the project is thus the world’s largest known urban construction project in wood.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The Dutch are renowned for their innovative and forward-thinking approach to urban design, and consequently their livable, sustainable, and safe cities. The prevalence of cycling contributes to aesthetically pleasing streetscapes and encourages mixed-use, compact development. A radical paradigm shift is necessary if U.S.

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Archinect

AUGUST 25, 2022

Earlier this week, New York Mayor Eric Adams announced that the city has received a $7.25 Department of Transportation (USDOT) Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) grant. The funding is from the U.S. “This grant will help us do t.

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aasarchitecture

MARCH 11, 2022

The winning scheme of Qingshuihe Comprehensive Transportation Hub in Luohu, Shenzhen is an impressive Transit-Oriented Development with high degree of station-city integration. It will become a major transportation hub in Shenzhen with 4 urban rails, 1 intercity line, 1 high-speed rail line and various ground transportation.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 12, 2024

Foster + Partners has been appointed by Hackman Capital Partners to reimagine the Television City studio complex in Los Angeles, following an international competition. Image © Foster + Partners The new elements are inserted into a flexible low-carbon structural grid, which learns from the city’s world-renowned Case Study Houses.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

After nearly a decade of planning and design changes, Frank Gehry ’s proposed Ocean Avenue mixed-use development has finally been given the go-ahead by the Santa Monica City Council.

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Deezen

JULY 3, 2023

Mega-projects such as The Line should be avoided in favour of improving urban design within existing cities, Gehl Architects CEO Helle Søholt says in this interview. In general, I think the era of the mega-cities should be over," she said of The Line, a 170-kilometre linear city being constructed in the Saudi Arabian desert. "In

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