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Foster + Partners and Sasaki Associates designing Sierra Leone island city for Idris Elba

Deezen

Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. Sherbro Alliance Partners, which is co-ordinating the masterplan, has enlisted energy company Octopus to develop a strategy for electricity generation based on wind power.

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GDH Yungang City Guangzhou Plot 4

e-architect

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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How climate, pandemic, and war shape the "future proofing" of buildings, cities and regions

Community Architect

Domestic and general firearm violence is up across the country, most visibly in larger cities; all attempts of curbing the rampant violence have not yielded a result yet. Cities as conglomerations of real estate and the built environment are therefore ground zero for future proofing. Lack of consensus reaches deep into our daily lives.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

Community Architect Daily

To this end one of the testimonies towards a Planned Unit Development (PUD) bill before the City Council began this way: The wrong game all along? Middle East had been one of the most disinvested areas in the City. Homeownership was a low 18% and the poverty rate was 48%, twice the City average.

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Westport: What is left of the big dreams

Community Architect Daily

Field Operations competition entry: Rendering That concept was presented on December 10 of last year and promptly experienced its Waterloo in the initial review of the City's design review panel UDAAP. The implied suggestion is that the developer doesn't need anything from the City and therefore could proceed relatively unrestricted.

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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. Like the High Line, the park includes an elevated pedestrian walkway that helps give city dwellers reprieve from the crowded streets. Raha Ashrafi .

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Denmark

Architizer

As architects, it is our responsibility to create a better world, with better cities without exploiting nature. With the foundation in architecture, scenography and art, JAC studios work with exhibition architecture for museums, companies as well as in public urban space. Kids City Prinsessegade , Copenhagen, Denmark.