Archinect

MAY 22, 2023

New York City is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers, new research shows, which could put its population of more than 8 million people at an increased risk of coastal flooding. [.] Researchers estimated the weight of all of New York City’s buildings to be around 842 million tons. millimeters.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

City officials estimate the cost of completely rebuilding Irpin to be over $1 billion. Since Russia’s invasion in February 2022, 885 buildings in Irpin have been destroyed, while 12,000 have been damaged.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Dozens of electric yellow school buses are scheduled to roll on city streets as early as next fall, officials announced Tuesday. The city is using an $18.5 It’s part of an effort to meet the city’s and the state’s shared goal of converting all New York’s school buses to run on electricity by 2035.

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Archinect

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Army Corps estimates construction on the $52 billion project would begin in 2030 and be complete by 2044. According to The City's Samantha Maldonado, a public comment period will be held through January 6th, 2023, as a means to help "inform the design." The New York District, North Atlantic Division of the U.S.

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Archinect

JUNE 14, 2022

The Line, as the car-free linear city that will form the backbone of Neom is known, could cost up to $200 billion to build, the prince said last year, though that was before the plan changed to include gigantic horizontal buildings. Rendering of the proposed mega-city. Image courtesy of Neom. Image courtesy of Neom.

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Deezen

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The 15-minute city concept has repeatedly made the news this year. What are 15-minute cities? The 15-minute city is an urban planning concept that, as its name suggests, aims to create communities where people can access key amenities by travelling no more than 15 minutes on foot or by bike. Who invented the 15-minute city?

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RMJM Architecture

JUNE 22, 2023

Estimated reading time: 3 min High-rise architecture has long been an integral part of urban development, shaping the skyline of cities and revolutionising the way we live and work. The post From Skyscrapers to Vertical Cities appeared first on RMJM. From the towering skyscrapers of the.

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Archinect

JANUARY 29, 2024

New York City-based Marin Architects has revealed its design for a 42-story tower near Bryant Park in Manhattan. ” Image credit: Marin Architects The exterior also sees a significant 25-foot cantilever over an adjacent property, which the team estimates has allowed for the inclusion of an additional 68 units in the scheme.

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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. million in economic benefits to the Westside community.

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ArchDaily

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Image © Werner Lerooy via Shutterstock The project for implementing a fourth metro line in the Greek capital began in 2021, with the purpose of reducing the need for automobiles in the crowded city. As the 15-station new line is estimated to transport 340,000 passengers a day, up to 53,000 cars could be taken off the roads each day.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Cities should plant more trees to help prevent tens of thousands of annual deaths from extreme heat, Arup specialist Dima Zogheib tells Dezeen as part of our Designing for Disaster series. Above: Madrid was one of the heatwave-prone cities covered by the snapshot. Top: Zogheib spoke to Dezeen about Arup's Urban Heat Snapshot.

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RMJM Architecture

JUNE 20, 2023

Estimated reading time: 3 min Neighbourhoods are defined by the communities who live there, and each has unique expectations of the services and facilities needed. The post The 20 Minutes City: The future of suburban living? This will also vary depending on the wider area, including. appeared first on RMJM.

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

It then hit further delays in the form of a contractor’s breach-of-contract lawsuit arising from significant cost overruns, which drove the installation's final price from $142 million to the $400 million final reported estimate.

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Deezen

APRIL 9, 2024

The turbines are not designed to be as powerful as the large industrial variety, with Airiva estimating that each wall segment of four turbines can provide 1,100 kilowatt-hours in annual energy production (AEP) based on initial testing. Doucet is a New York-based designer whose practice focuses on innovation and sustainability.

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Archinect

APRIL 10, 2023

The city granted permits to 988 units last year, and more than 650 were built — not all projects are built during the year they get permitted — outpacing the construction of single houses for the first time As the Seattle Times reports, a change in regulations in 2019 led to the ADU boom locally.

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Brandon Donnelly

JANUARY 15, 2022

In 2018, the Utah State Legislature passed a bill creating a new land authority to guide the future development of 600 acres of state-owned land in Draper, Utah (just south of Salt Lake City). This is a difficult thing to achieve in many cities, but I think it’s one the greatest urban amenities out there.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 7, 2023

Counterspace's design concept delved into the history and impact of Paul Panda Farnana, a significant yet under-appreciated figure in the city, who studied the intricate connections between past and future generations of migrant individuals and communities. Read more »

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ArchDaily

JULY 7, 2023

As data from the United Nations also estimates an annual population growth rate of 0.7% , the country’s built environment is set to interact with a new discourse of demography and present its own perspective on how to build for billions. One where the design and development of the rural areas take precedence over the cities.

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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

JUNE 1, 2022

Citing the climate crisis, the Los Angeles City Council voted Friday to ban most gas appliances in new construction, a policy that’s expected to result in new homes and businesses coming equipped with electric stoves, clothes dryers, water heaters and furnaces.

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2023

New York City officials announced plans on Thursday to ease the conversion of office buildings to housing and to open manufacturing areas south of Times Square to new residential development, as part of a broader push to reinvent the struggling business district in Midtown Manhattan and address the city’s housing crisis.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S. cities and towns. The study, recently published in the journal PLOS ON , involved extracting and digitizing data from Sanborn Fire Insurance maps.

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Archinect

JULY 20, 2023

Carol Willis has been a steadfast champion for the critical role high-rise buildings play in tackling population density in cities around the world, both today and historically. We look forward to honoring their enduring commitment to these estimable undertakings in Singapore and Kuala Lumpur."

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The city centre of Antakya [.] The World Bank estimates the total physical damage in Turkey to be approximately $34.2 Though less extensively reported, damage to heritage sites is most significant in the southernmost province of Hatay. has been almost completely flattened.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S. cities and towns. The study, recently published in the journal PLOS ON , involved extracting and digitizing data from Sanborn Fire Insurance maps.

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Archinect

AUGUST 8, 2022

A few short weeks removed from the greenlighting of its proposed Ocean Avenue project in Santa Monica, Gehry Partners has revealed a new design for a Headwaters Pavilion to the LA River Greenway located within a city-owned plot in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Canoga Park. The total estimated cost of the design is $5.1

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

People living in San Francisco may be given the opportunity to vote on a proposal to tax vacant homes in the city. The proposal, filed with city officials this month, seeks to address a chronic shortage of housing in San Francisco by encouraging landlords to either rent or sell vacant units.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

The drama over the project provides a window into just how hard it is for the city to scale up its housing and shelter system, even as a recent report from the Department of Homelessness and Supportive Housing (HSH) estimated it would take more than 6,000 extra temporary and permanent beds to solve the crisis on the streets.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Architects Orange have developed a proposal for Oklahoma City featuring what could become the " the tallest building in the United States and currently fifth tallest in the world. Oana Stănescu is the curator for the Beta 2024 Timișoar.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2022

Vacancy rates in the area climbed to an all-time high last quarter, and the city is predictably feeling the same housing crunch as nearly every other metropolitan area of the country. million square feet of rentable office space a prime target for prospective developers.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Milwaukee’s $15 million proposal to renovate 150 vacant, city-owned homes is moving forward. On Monday, the Department of City Development (DCD) announced the development teams, a mix of nonprofit and for-profit developers, that will participate in the first round of the Homes MKE initiative. per hour.

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2022

Developers and city officials recently joined to celebrate the start of construction on a dual-building affordable housing complex in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Total construction costs for the complex are estimated at $118 million.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2022

Based on data about the daily movements of residents, the Cambio network will link existing cycle paths and supplement them with new "super-cycle corridors" that will connect the city of Milan in northern Italy and all 133 communes within its wider metropolitan area. Image courtesy of the Metropolitan City of Milan. "It

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Architizer

JANUARY 25, 2024

It would not be an exaggeration to say that cities as we know them today would not have been possible without reinforced concrete. Individual mushrooms are simply the “fruiting bodies” of this vast organism, which is estimated to be at least 2,400 years old. The post Can You Really Grow a City?

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Archinect

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

In Canoga Park, a groundbreaking ceremony held on November 7 by City and County officials marks the official start of work on a new entry pavilion to the Los Angeles River Greenway. Total estimated costs for the design is $5.1 The new structures will support a shade canopy displaying public art.

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

data from Comparitech , there is estimated to be about 19,236 cameras installed around the Greater Toronto Area. Though to be totally fair here, Rio de Janeiro is up at 3.34 (and it may be the most dangerous city mentioned in this post). Moscow is estimated to have 16.85 According to this (2022?) With a population of around 6.31

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2022

The participating teams are tasked to envision an important redesign of Lebanon's chief economic engine following the tragic 2020 explosion that took 218 lives and caused an estimated $15 billion in structural damage. Beirut as a city claims to have been destroyed and rebuilt seven times throughout its 5,000-year history.

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