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Re-framed Initiative – Study of Retrofit Schematic Designs

Westeck News

The design teams estimate deep retrofits can cut energy use by up to 90%, which underscores the comprehensive opportunity deep retrofits present for driving down energy demand and cutting utility costs during an affordability crisis. . > > Optimizing on-site solar PV electricity generation and storage. >

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2022 Projects in the Pipeline

SW Oregon Architect

This year, we learned what the City of Eugene , University of Oregon , Lane Community College , and Atkins Dame, Inc. have in store for interested design professionals, contractors, subcontractors, and suppliers. Much of the work the city has queued up is associated with maintenance or upgrades to existing infrastructure.

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Competitions: Pre-announcement | Open Tender for Exhibition Design of Shenzhen Natural History Museum

Bustler

It will help better meet people's growing demands for public cultural services, and convert Shenzhen into a regional cultural center by enhancing the cultural soft power of the city. The design team will have to cooperate with the tenderee in the application for official design development approvals and the tenders at the next stages.

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Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, Oregon

e-architect

Wilbert Davies, who later became a notable California-based landscape architect, was retained by the Leach family to develop landscaping plans. The plans were only partly carried out, and following the deaths of the Leachs, the property was eventually gifted to the City of Portland. The first phase is approximately seven acres.

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Competitions: The International Competition of Open Call for the Creative Scheme of Cuihu Sports Centre

Bustler

By constructing the Cuihu Sports Centre, it would present the level of urban construction, establish a city image, improve the class of the city and supplement the urban function. The above actions are to propel excellent construction work for the Cuihu Sports Centre and to make it a city card for the Cuiheng New district.

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Competitions: Design Competition of International Islands and the Future Residence

Bustler

In the course of shaping and adapting to the nature, the relationship of humans and nature developed and reached a kind of dynamic balance, the harmonious coexistence. Hainan has undergone a development of thousand years, and formed migratory living cities and now softly starts a diverse humanitarian living mode.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Her publications include the books 49 Cities and Above the Pavement—the Farm! both of which seek to redefine the relationship between cities, farms and nature. Conceived as a “habitable arc poised on the horizon,” the engineered wood structure was created as a pavilion for the 2016 London Design Festival. Raha Ashrafi .