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Hugh Broughton Architects transforms Sheerness Dockyard Church into community hub

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Located in a prominent position in the port town of Sheerness in north Kent, the church is a key part of an 18th-century masterplan by Scottish civil engineer John Rennie. It is located in a historic dockyard on the Isle of Sheppey "The church stood at the apex of Rennie's masterplan," Broughton explained. "We

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News: The Urban Design Forum 2023 Forefront Fellows will explore design's relationship with social and political issues in New York City

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This year's group is made up of architects, urban planners, artists, researchers, civil rights advocates, community leaders, organizers, designers, and civil engineers. View all 33 Forefront Fellows below.

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News: The Urban Design Forum's 2023 Forefront Fellows will explore design's relationship with social and political issues in New York City

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This year's group is made up of architects, urban planners, artists, researchers, civil rights advocates, community leaders, organizers, designers, and civil engineers. View all 33 Forefront Fellows below.

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Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School named best building at Dezeen Awards China 2023

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The Haikou Jiangdong Huandao Experimental School with its bold primary colours won architecture project of the year Other winners include architecture practice RSHP for its masterplan featuring buildings connected by sky gardens and Vari Design for its black box-building in a bustling commercial area in Yuzhong.

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CookFox releases photos of linked towers at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery

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Masterplanned by SHoP Architects in 2013, the redeveloped site features five buildings, each designed by a different architect. The massing was guided by the Domino Sugar Refinery masterplan. Structural engineering: Rosenwasser Grossman, Consulting Engineers. MEP: Dagher Engineering. Master plan: SHoP Architects.

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Diller Scofidio + Renfro creates pair of Columbia Business School buildings with "layer-cake design"

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Renzo Piano's Manhattanville masterplan stipulated an urban layer at the ground level would be permeable to the public, extending the city grid through the campus," said Charles Renfro, partner-in-charge for Diller Scofidio + Renfro. The expanded campus in Upper Manhattan was masterplanned by Renzo Piano Building Workshop.

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Kigali Green City Project, Rwanda, Africa

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Leading East African planning, design, architecture and engineering firm FBW Group has been appointed to the international team tasked with delivering the trailblazing Kigali Green City project in the Rwandan capital. Kigali school campus masterplan. Images by FCBS. Kigali Green City Project in Rwanda, East Africa. Kigali Buildings.

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