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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. . > > Exploring the feasibility of other onsite renewable energy generation technologies.

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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: 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: 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 project covers a site area of about 42000 square meters, with a gross floor area of about 105300 square meters.

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Competitions: Design Competition of International Islands and the Future Residence

Bustler

Hainan has undergone a development of thousand years, and formed migratory living cities and now softly starts a diverse humanitarian living mode. With a total area about 298 square kilometers, it is divided into the eastern ecological functional area and the western industry-city integration area. Project Overview.

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Leach Botanical Garden, Portland, Oregon

e-architect

The plans were only partly carried out, and following the deaths of the Leachs, the property was eventually gifted to the City of Portland. Located in southeast Portland, the multi phase Master Plan project will fundamentally transform the botanical garden. Integral to Phase 1 is a new system of trails that reorganizes the garden experience.

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Back to the Garden

Landscape Architecture Magazine

He was born and raised in the area and knew it when it was part of the booming midcentury borscht belt, where resorts drew Jewish families from New York City, about two hours south. The organizers hired help to ready the property for the arrival of what they estimated would be about 100,000 people.