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Stockholm Wood City: Masterplanning The World’s Largest Timber Construction Project

Architizer

Spanning 60 acres and once complete, comprising around 7,000 commercial spaces and 2,000 homes, Wood City is currently the world’s largest urban timber construction project. Can it support commercial tenants and residential? Who would want to live in the city? We believe that is the case.”

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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

Thus there is some public governance with a County Executive, a council, a planning commission, and a full set of zoning regulations which create a sort of umbrella of rules and representation. Covenants restrict what homeowners or commercial buyers who buy land from Rouse can do with the property.

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Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

Community Architect Daily

The new skyline of the Inner Harbor as per Bramble's design team The proposal departs from the original Harbor Masterplan of Wallace, Roberts Todd of the 1970s which defined an inner and an outer frame in which the inner structures had to be low with the exception of the World Trade Center. plan of Ayer Saint Gross of 2013.

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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) wins competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre

aasarchitecture

The centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new multimedia library to the north of Jinghe Avenue with the new performing arts theatre, multi-function halls, studios and exhibition galleries to the south via elevated courtyards, gardens and paths that span the avenue’s eight lanes of traffic below.

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Competitions: Greening the Industrial City

Bustler

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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Zaha Hadid Architects wins Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre competition

aasarchitecture

RBS Regulation and technical consultant: ??????????????? Echoing the meandering valleys carved by the Jinghe River through the mountains and landscapes of Shaanxi province, the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre is located within the Jinghe Bay Academician Science & Technology Innovation district of the city.

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Zaha Hadid Architects designs Xi'an cultural centre to echo "meandering valleys"

Deezen

Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre, which will span eight lanes of traffic on Jinghe Avenue, will form part of a masterplan for redeveloping the area. Accessed by gently sloping ramps, the building will also help connect the city's commercial and residential districts to the north with to parkland to the south.

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