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Lumière Tower by KAAN Architecten

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The new plan allows for high-end retail, a grand café, and commercial spaces on Lijnbaan, Kruiskade, and in the Lumière Passage. This project is not only an architectural masterpiece but also an embodiment of our commitment to sustainable urban development, uniting diverse functions within a vertical city.

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How to Utilize Aluminum in Modern Construction Projects

Architecture Ideas

Technological developments triggered the acceptance of aluminum in structural applications. Aluminum is broadly used in household dwellings and commercial constructions as it’s the second-best choice after steel. Did you know that 25% of globally produced aluminum is used in construction? Aluminum also offers airtightness.

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26 Pioneering Architecture Firms Rethinking the Fundamentals of Design

Architizer

Many studios embraced socially and environmentally conscious design approaches, rising to meet some of the most pressing challenges facing the built environment today, from the climate crisis, sustainability and land scarcity to the need for truly accessible and inclusive spaces.

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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

Baltimore County: report for Security Square Mall redevelopment At the same time the supply of these single use land areas got entirely out of whack with demand: The country is totally oversupplied with commercial and retail areas in a time when online shopping and global production have put the squeeze on retail and commercial operations.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

BD+C

Each time, it involves a different mix of government policy and investment with private development and equity. Sustainable Senior Living Construction is well under way in Yonkers, N.Y., Both the buildings and the land itself will be sustainable and resilient to climate change.

Housing 104
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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

It also carries a gene that Rouse introduced back in 1978 by inserting private development into a charter protected public space which Baltimore had clawed from its formerly industrial warehouse waterfront. It also planted the seed for the tension between public and private urban space that resurfaces in the current redevelopment debate.

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University of Arkansas Community Design Center Proposes Downtown Housing Regeneration Scheme

Architizer

The challenge is to manage gentrification processes in a way that does not create widespread displacements of households that sustained downtown even when it was not a popular place. The triplex massing and frontage vocabulary is quintessentially urban and not hostage to the simple expression of its three units.

Housing 65