Archinect

MARCH 6, 2023

UNStudio , HKS , and Gehl have been selected by the Austin Transit Partnership (ATP) to lead the architecture and urban design of Project Connect, a major expansion of the city’s public transit system. The voter-approved investment includes new light rail , expanded bus routes, a subway , and more services across Austin.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2024

Image: Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum via X Sheikh Mohammed also said there is a plan for a one-million-person satellite city to be developed alongside the new terminal, joined by a logistics hub for international carriers. Finance reported the vision will be realized "within ten years."

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e-architect

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Greater Bay Area Technology Finance Centre Guangzhou Building, Architect, GDD Holding Group Project Design News. Greater Bay Area Technology Finance Centre Guangzhou. Greater Bay Area Technology Finance Centre Guangzhou Building. Greater Bay Area Technology Finance Centre, Guangzhou – Building Information.

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Archinect

MARCH 2, 2022

Following a surge in traffic deaths in New York , in which a total of 273 people, citywide, were killed in crashes last year, the highest since 2013, Mayor Eric Adams wants to raise hundreds of crosswalks across the city. The new crosswalks will be financed by city and federal funding.

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Archinect

APRIL 21, 2023

The first dedicated soccer stadium for New York City FC will be designed by HOK , the team announced this week as it previewed its plans for a new mixed-use district in Willets Point, Queens.

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Archinect

APRIL 29, 2024

A new mixed-use design from Foster + Partners has been revealed for Shanghai’s Science and Technology Finance hub as part of the larger Shanghai 2035 master plan.

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Archinect

JANUARY 3, 2022

million in financing for the first phase of Arverne East, a master-planned community and revitalization project within a 116-acre oceanfront site in the Arverne and Edgemere neighborhoods in Queens’ Rockaway Peninsula. Funding for the first phase was provided by the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD).

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Deezen

MARCH 18, 2024

Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. The Sherbro island development is the latest in a series of smart cities that have been proposed around the world. I'm not qualified for that. But I am qualified to dream big."

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Brandon Donnelly

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

During the pandemic, there was a lot of erroneous talk about the death of cities. The Meta City combines physical and virtual agglomeration, in seeming defiance of the laws of physics, making it possible to occupy more than one space at the same time. Cities have always responded to and been a product of new mobility technologies.

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Deezen

MAY 12, 2022

El Salvadorian president Nayib Bukele has unveiled architecture studio FR-EE 's designs for a cryptocurrency -funded city that is planned to rise up the side of a volcano in the south of the country. Bukele revealed a model of the city in a tweet alongside the caption "#Bitcoin City is coming along beautifully" earlier this week.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

million project, which broke ground on the city’s South Side in May 2022. Laurence elementary school by the Theaster Gates’ Rebuild Foundation has added new leadership to support the $10.35

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aasarchitecture

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To keep pace with the development of the Greater Bay Area (GBA), which is deemed a key strategic role in the country’s development blueprint to implement innovation-driven reforms, the Greater Bay Area (Guangzhou) Technology Finance Centre comprises of a five-star hotel, offices, retail and residential spaces. Image © Aedas.

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e-architect

DECEMBER 18, 2022

GDH Yungang City Guangzhou Plot 4 Building, Architect, GDD Holding Group Project Design News. GDH Yungang City Guangzhou Development. Aedas and GDAD Jointly Design Baiyun New Skyscraper GDH Yungang City. GDH Yungang City Guangzhou Plot 4 Buildings. Project: GDH Yungang City (Plot 4). 18 December 2022.

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The Architect's Newsletter

AUGUST 31, 2023

Chicago Skyscrapers 1934-1986: How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City | Thomas Leslie | University of Illinois Press | $44.95

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Architectural Record

MARCH 24, 2024

billion in financing, could reach over 1,900 feet if approved by city officials and the FAA. The planned supertall, which allegedly secured $1.5

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Vornado , which owns half of the sites included in the scheme and in January was delisted from the S&P 500, reportedly considered high lending rates and the city’s lagging return-to-office crisis as a cause for the delay.

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Archinect

DECEMBER 17, 2021

One of the most significant pieces to the architectural history of Hitler’s reign is now set to be converted into a concert venue in a controversial decision currently making waves in the second-largest city in Bavaria.

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Deezen

MARCH 11, 2024

Funding has been secured and construction may begin in September on the Legends Tower in Oklahoma City, which is planned to be the tallest in USA , says developer Scot Matteson. The entire project is financed, including the tower — if the tower gets approved." And then we will get a building permit in September.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

After years of delays, New York City finally has a shiny silver bean of its own. A new sculpture by Anish Kapoor—modeled after his famous Cloud Gate, known as the Bean, in Chicago—was officially unveiled this week. [.] Despite its resemblance to Cloud Gate, is different in several key ways, reported Tribeca Citizen in 2018.

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Westeck News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Content courtesy of BC Gov News Government of Canada adds $2 billion in additional financing. The BC Builds team will help streamline approvals for projects seeking federal financing to meet the 12-18-month concept-to-construction BC Builds timeline. Middle-income earners are the economic engine of our city. can afford.

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Bustler

MAY 10, 2023

Event Date: May 23, 2023; Event City: London, GB Europe’s cities and nations have long been uneasy partners. City leaders seem ever more ready to take a stand against national governments on questions like housing policy ( Lisbon ), LGBT rights ( Italy ), public finances ( Paris ), or democracy ( Hungary and Poland).

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Brandon Donnelly

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It provides a visual look at city finances and explains how car-dependent suburbs are usually heavily subsidized by productive urban places. These are the kinds of analyses that all cities should be doing and, among many other things, I think it could go a long way to positively influencing how we plan our cities.

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Deezen

AUGUST 23, 2022

American artist Michael Heizer has completed City, a monumental sculpture formed of earthen mounds, geoglyphs and concrete pyramids deep in the Nevada desert that took more than 50 years to construct. Top: the City sculpture includes a series of three pyramids called 45°, 90°, 180°. Deep depressions are found throughout City.

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Archinect

MARCH 14, 2022

The grants will be disbursed through Empire State Development (ESD), the umbrella organization for New York’s two principal economic development financing entities: The New York State Urban Development Corporation and the New York Job Development Authority.

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Deezen

APRIL 8, 2024

The Line mega-city, which is the flagship development for Saudi Arabia's Neom project, will allegedly house fewer than 300,000 people by 2030, down from an original goal of 1.5 When the project was introduced, estimates for how many people would live in the mega city in northwestern Saudi Arabia by 2030 ranged from one million people to 1.5

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Archinect

JULY 10, 2023

Mayor London Breed announced a $369 million Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act loan a month before the report was made public courtesy of KQED’s public records request. The report indicates a 37% increase in stormwater by the end of the century. magnitude earthquake or higher occurring within the next 30 years.

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Brandon Donnelly

APRIL 22, 2023

According to this annual survey by Henley & Partners (first chart from Bloomberg ), these are the top 10 wealthiest cities in the world when you count the number of high-net-worth individuals (i.e. That said, a bunch of other cities fared even worse. The city that lost the most millionaires over this same decade was Moscow.

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Architecture Here and There

JANUARY 19, 2022

Authorities in the Big Apple, including, it now seems, the state’s new governor, Kathy Hochul, have bought into a vision of Manhattan’s future that privileges the greedy moguls of high finance and their camp followers in high office. So what else is new? Cynical ploys may be the mother’s milk of New York politics.

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Community Architect

OCTOBER 20, 2023

In this part we will search for the opportunities for a flourishing city beyond the office. Let's find out what trends could provide the seed for a potential success story for the next generation of cities. In the first part of this article we described the current symbiotic relation of downtown and the office.

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The Architecture Designs

APRIL 28, 2022

It’s no secret that The Global City is one of the best places to live in the world. But if you’re finding yourself on the hunt for your perfect home in The Global City, you may be wondering where to even start. Tips to find a perfect home in the Global City. source: pinterest.com. Do your research. Be patient.

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Portland Architecture

AUGUST 3, 2022

Smith has also served locally as vice president of the Portland Planning Commission and the Mayor’s Central City Roundtable, not to mention as urban design advisor to the City of San Francisco for the Treasure Island Redevelopment. Covers of Placeways ( UNC Press ) and Design of Cities ( Thames/Hudson ). .

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BD+C

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Cities and airport operators are using innovative schemes to finance ambitious terminal projects at U.S. The $4 billion renovation of New York City’s LaGuardia Airport is the first major U.S. The ultimate goal: improved passenger satisfaction. aviation project delivered using a public-private partnership (P3) model.

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2023

After docklands moved west towards, and now into, the North Sea, a new district has sprung up in this corner of Rotterdam, extending the city center. The scheme is just one of several remarkable undertakings by the municipality of Rotterdam, transforming how the city interacts with its riverfront.

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Deezen

MARCH 9, 2024

It is the latest addition to the growing number of communal saunas in the region, which Oslo Works said are typically created by local communities coming together to finance and build them. People are putting their forces together in order to finance, build and share hothouse all along the shore."

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

often had to make multiple trips to conduct their regular business with the city. Space limitations meant city offices were located in different facilities. So, getting a building permit could mean a trip to the Planning and Zoning office, followed by a drive across town to pay permit fees at the Finance Department.

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Brandon Donnelly

AUGUST 23, 2023

This is because they are getting seller financing for the remaining $40 million. But in both cases, and assuming the $5k per month is all the County needs to pay, there’s effectively no interest on this 4-year “financing”. ($60k Implied loan-to-value of about 73%.) 60k per year on $40-45 million.)

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Archinect

MARCH 10, 2022

Despite an illustrious history, the prized structure on Virginia Key has sat vacant since Hurricane Andrew swept through the city in 1992. It now faces an uncertain future as city commissioners will soon decide whether to allocate $61.2 million in revenue-bond financing for the building’s restoration.

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