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Weed Whackers

Landscape Architecture Magazine

For habitat restoration and invasives control on sensitive sites, goats are a natural. Three hundred goats help Caltrans restore habitat at the foot of Big Sur. The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) recently used goats to help with habitat restoration on a sensitive site. By Katharine Logan.

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Competitions: Young Balkan Designers Open Call. Here and Now - Hybrid Solutions for Contemporary Living, Work, Exchange and Play

Bustler

The initiative also aims at unifying the regional design scene, bringing it closer to the international audience, strengthening its potential by providing additional education and practice to emerging designers, while at the same time contributing to the restoration of multi-cultural cooperation in the Balkan region.

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Event: Building Socially Sustainable Communities: Bridging the Divide at Essex Crossing

Bustler

Archer facilitated the workforce development and training programs at Essex, helped support non-profits and local community groups on a variety of initiatives, and oversaw DSA’s compliance program to create contract opportunities for minority- and women-owned business enterprises (M/WBEs).

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BDP Architects Practice Information + News

e-architect

The practice was also lead-architect for the restoration of The Round Foundry, part of the ongoing regeneration of Holbeck and the wider Leeds South Bank district – one of the largest regeneration projects in Europe. Houses of Parliament Renewal Contracts , London, England, UK. Palace of Westminster Building Restoration.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

By contrast, the neighboring retail free McKeldin plaza, isolated by traffic as it was, had become Baltimore's free speech zone and ground zero for the Occupy Wall Street movement. The design violates all zoning rules and the city charter in terms of uses and heights that were prohibited. Some had seen decline coming. D'Alesandro, Jr.

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BDP Architecture Practice Information + News

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BDP has successfully bid for a transport and planning framework masterplan for the Salmiya district of Kuwait City; the formal signing of the 14 month contract, with a value in excess of £2m, took place in January. Grade I Listed, Strand Campus – restoration: 2006 – Building Design Partnership. BDP wins Kuwait Masterplan.

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Hogekwartier by KCAP

aasarchitecture

The canal’s sustainability is improved: widened ecological borders with toad pools in wadis aim to restore and strengthen the water connection. A ‘wetland corridor’ connects the Valleikanaal to the water catchment area east of the city, making it part of a continuous ecological zone.