Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

New regulations, called Part O, took effect in England in June, requiring that new homes are built with some measures to combat overheating. The regulations aim to reduce solar gain — the increase in room temperature caused by sunlight — ensuring the safety of occupants, even if it may remain uncomfortable.

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Archinect

JUNE 5, 2023

A new law is set to take effect in New York City, which will regulate how companies can use artificial intelligence in hiring decisions. Enforcement of NYC 144 will begin on July 5th, 2023, requiring companies using AI software in the hiring process to notify candidates that such software is being used.

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Dwell

MARCH 21, 2024

But after Airbnb caught on in more in more cities since its debut in 2008, acts of bonhomie have given way to a profit-driven short-term rental industry that has created a complex love-hate relationship between city dwellers, property owners, and municipal actors. Below is a non-exhaustive list of the ones specific to your city.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This is not a regulated view corridor. Google Street View) View corridors are planning tools used in urban design and city planning to protect and enhance specific views within a city. The goal is to maintain or create aesthetically pleasing vistas that contribute to the overall character and identity of a city.

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The Architect's Newsletter

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Earlier this month, New York City Mayor Eric Adams rolled out city-mandated guidelines and regulations for permanent outdoor dining, Dining Out NYC.

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ArchDaily

JANUARY 23, 2024

via Shutterstock | Emmage | a crowded marketplace in Port Harcourt City with structures consisting mostly of colourful umbrellas. Mostly categorized under the informal economy due to lack of regulations and authorization, street markets in the global south have often been seen as a threat to urban development. Read more »

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Deezen

JANUARY 9, 2024

Testing for the floating +Pool swimming pool proposed for New York City 's waterways will begin this summer upon the project receiving $16 million to advance. The post Testing for floating +Pool to begin in New York City summer 2024 appeared first on Dezeen. The images are courtesy of Friends of +Pool.

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Archinect

MARCH 8, 2024

She currently chairs the Bachelor of Architecture program and co-directs the Urban Works Agency, CCA’s urbanism research lab, where her research explores the role of design at the intersection of citizen-led and city-regulated processes in the production of urban space. Image courtesy Tharanesh Varadharajan, Zachary Ke.

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Archinect

MARCH 10, 2024

NYT critic Michael Kimmelman also wrote of their plight last year, declaring theirs and other opposition attempts a noble attempt at restoring the city’s history in an era defined by zoning manipulation and visible inequality.

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Community Architect Daily

MAY 7, 2024

But this is a different story in which the question of "who owns the city?" poses itself in a unique way So there are similarities and stark differences: This story doesn't include an elected mayor making deals with developers, there is no city charter that needs to be amended, nor is there a public private-partnership.

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Architonic

MAY 21, 2023

<p>I always consider myself fortunate to have grown up outside the city, where my ‘cross-country’ lessons, for example – a national right of hardship for 11-16-year-olds, were through actual countryside rather than the high street. For many children, however, modern school life is not so close to nature.</p>

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Archinect

JANUARY 11, 2023

Beijing-based landscape architecture firm Turenscape has completed the transformation of a former 126-acre dumping ground into a “dreamlike floating forest” in the eastern Chinese city of Nanchang.

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Architizer

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

At Hitra Office & Commercial Building, we have found the answer by redefining the current regulations & restrictions to cause a win-win relationship with the building, neighborhood & city. To become a new expandable typology, Hitra devotes its obligatory void to the city as an opportunity to shape communal spaces.

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ArchDaily

JUNE 6, 2023

Cortesia de dormakaba In medieval cities, walls played a crucial function, acting both as a defense against external threats and as a symbol of power and control, while also regulating local trade.

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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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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The role, based in New York City, calls for an individual to join a practice “recognized worldwide for its creative interfacing of landscape and architecture.”

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ArchDaily

JUNE 7, 2023

Image Courtesy of Herzog & de Meuron The city of Paris has officially reinstated a rule that limits the height of new buildings in the French capital to 37 meters, or 12 storeys. The new urban planning regulation is introduced as part of Mayor Anne Hidalgo's Local Bioclimatic Urban Plan, which aims to reduce Paris' carbon emissions.

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 16, 2023

20-04 in March of 2020, which directed all state agencies to take actions to reduce and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The program mandates that Oregon municipalities with populations greater than 50,000 legislate changes to municipal land use code regulations to mitigate the impacts of climate change.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Nonprofit New York City Economic Development Corporation has launched New York City Mass Timber Studio, an assistance program for the development of mass-timber construction within New York City. The post New York City incentivises mass-timber construction with assistance program appeared first on Dezeen.

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BD+C

AUGUST 21, 2014

Cities are opting to use form-based codes, a concept less concerned with the use of buildings and more with their appearance and the way they relate to each other. Regulations Codes and Standards' Driven by New Urbanism, more than two dozen communities in the U.S. have loosened zoning restrictions in recent years.

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Archinect

JULY 25, 2022

Following last week’s visit to Los Angeles-based Stayner Architects, we are moving our Meet Your Next Employer series east to New York City, where we find ODA Architecture. Founded in 2007, the studio has developed an international reputation for delivering what it describes as “imaginative and mold-breaking designs.”

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Architizer

APRIL 12, 2023

How smart and green a city is can be determined by environmental initiatives, progressive urban planning, infrastructure with technology at its core and the availability of IoT-monitored resources for people working and living in the city. Right: Smart City Illustration. Illustration by Bartz/Stockmar, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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The Architect's Newsletter

JANUARY 31, 2022

As we enter the third year of the pandemic, outdoor dining structures across the United States have evolved and solidified from laxly regulated, amorphous impromptu solutions intended to let customers [.]. The post New York City and the AIANY are searching for permanent outdoor dining solutions appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Because it’s protected, there are strong regulations all the new houses built here have to follow. We wanted the house connect to the scenery as much as possible while following all the regulations and a tight budget.Therefore, the house is designed as a small, simple gable roofed timber house. "On

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Archinect

DECEMBER 20, 2022

New Los Angeles mayor Karen Bass is wasting no time dismantling the regulatory process that’s long been held up as the source and exacerbator of the city’s intertwined homelessness and affordable housing crises. According to reporting in the LA Times , there are currently 31 projects in the city that will be affected by the ch.

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Architizer

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

With ground set to be broken next year on the first stages of the monumental development and the first structures set to welcome tenants from 2027, the company is master-planning a small city in Sickla, Stockholm. This is fascinating, but it’s Wood City’s fundamental raison d’être that really intrigues.

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The Architecture Designs

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Maintaining a solid roof is paramount in Oklahoma City, where the weather can be unforgiving with its high winds, hailstorms, and temperature fluctuations. By the end of this article, homeowners in Oklahoma City will be well-informed to make a wise decision regarding their roofs. But is it worth the investment?

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Deezen

JANUARY 5, 2022

If passed, the Efficient and Green Mobility package would require the 424 largest cities in the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) to hash out sustainable urban mobility plans (SUMPs) centred on these kinds of "active mobility" modes by 2025. Read: London, New York, Paris and Milan give streets to cyclists and pedestrians.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over that time he has served as an architect, planner, educator, and an advisor to cities in and beyond the US, including Charleston, South Carolina, Omaha, and New York City, where he was Director of Urban Design in the Department of City Planning.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2022

He also stated that he does indeed support the city’s plan to replace the existing glass with trachyte stone, which he said matches the both the bridge and the city's existing aesthetic. The original glass paving installed on the bridge consisted of an anti-slippery upper surface that complied with all local regulations.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

Seattle has implemented a new regulation to reduce the number of rats occupying vacant buildings. The port city ranks first in the U.S. The new rat eradication regulation goes into effect in 2017. in the number of rats living within its borders.

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Archinect

JANUARY 5, 2022

He also stated that he does indeed support the city’s plan to replace the existing glass with trachyte stone, which he said matches the both the bridge and the city's existing aesthetic. The original glass paving installed on the bridge consisted of an anti-slippery upper surface that complied with all local regulations.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 21, 2022

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) has been named winner of the competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre. Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province. RBS Regulation and technical consultant: ???????????????

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Construction work in New York — city and statewide — remains the most deadly profession in the country. The NYCOSH has called on lawmakers to expand regulations that hold contractors liable for endangering workers. A total of 41 laborers died on the job in New York state in 2020, a decrease from 2019.

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BD+C

AUGUST 21, 2014

Cities are opting to use form-based codes, a concept less concerned with the use of buildings and more with their appearance and the way they relate to each other. Regulations Codes and Standards' Driven by New Urbanism, more than two dozen communities in the U.S. have loosened zoning restrictions in recent years.

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Bustler

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Registration Deadline: Sep 16, 2022; Submission Deadline Oct 18, 2022 Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the US, is the largest metropolitan area in the US without zoning regulations. As a result, the city is a patchwork of uses with industrial and commercial zones ensconced in residential neighborhoods.

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Brandon Donnelly

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This past week, New York City enacted a new short-term rental registration law that is not very friendly toward platforms like Airbnb and VRBO. And so this is also a kind of ban on short-term rentals in New York City. It’s certainly stricter than the regulations we have in Toronto.

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