Archinect

MARCH 19, 2024

Chinese state-owned construction contractor will build China’s largest soccer park in Guangzhou on the site where struggling Chinese property developer China Evergrande Group was supposed to build its soccer stadium. The site was originally meant for a 100,000-seat stadium designed by Gensler.

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Deezen

MARCH 4, 2024

Promotion: the Norman Foster Foundation has collaborated with building materials company Holcim to develop the Essential Homes Project, a concrete-wrapped modular housing concept for displaced people. The post Norman Foster and Holcim develop modular housing unit for displaced communities appeared first on Dezeen.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

acre site at the confluence of Grand Boulevard, Locust Street, Truman Road, and 17th Street, the development would offer a connector to the nearby South Loop Link project from OJB Landscape Architecture and BNIM. Cost estimates for the project are between $1–2 billion. Slotted into a 17.5-acre

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Archinect

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The Saudi crown prince recently reiterated his intentions to finalize the planned 2030 development strategy for Riyadh , which would more than double the population of the country's capital backed by a public-private partnership worth approximately $500 billion at a low estimate.

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Brandon Donnelly

APRIL 13, 2022

The big news this week for Toronto city builders is that the city has put forward a proposal to substantially increase development charges. When our cost consultant ran the numbers back in 2019, the estimate was that about a quarter of the price of a new condominium in Toronto was going to government fees and taxes.

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Archinect

JULY 19, 2022

After nearly a decade of planning and design changes, Frank Gehry ’s proposed Ocean Avenue mixed-use development has finally been given the go-ahead by the Santa Monica City Council. million in economic benefits to the Westside community.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The "First-Aid Spatial Kit" initiative is being taught as part of the school’s first-year construction practice curriculum and allows students to develop copyable designs for various interventions (furniture, pavilions, play spaces, etc.), Each of t.

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RMJM Architecture

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Estimated reading time: 5 min Over the last few decades there has been a substantial increase in inner city populations, whether it be for a purpose such as being closer to work, either in the. The post Mixed-Use Developments: Creating Urban Communities through Design appeared first on RMJM.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But at One Broadgate, the steel beams that once framed the London headquarters of inter-dealer broker TP Icap Plc will instead be salvaged from the site and recycled by developer Fabrix. When old office blocks are demolished, their steel frames are typically smelted down to be recycled, emitting thousands of tonnes of carbon in the process.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Architecture 2030 ’s new CARE (Carbon Avoided Retrofit Estimator) Tool is a way of providing valuable statistics that show the carbon savings of each project accurately and using a standardized methodology.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A team of scientists from universities in the United States have developed a silicon-based coating that can help stop the spread of fires by preventing materials coming in contact with flame. The coating was developed to slow the spread of fire by limiting the amount of combustion that happens on a molecular level as fires start to spread.

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Archinect

AUGUST 18, 2023

New York City officials announced plans on Thursday to ease the conversion of office buildings to housing and to open manufacturing areas south of Times Square to new residential development, as part of a broader push to reinvent the struggling business district in Midtown Manhattan and address the city’s housing crisis.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

A team of researchers from The Ohio State University has developed a machine learning technique that converts old urban maps into three-dimensional digital models. The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S.

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Archinect

JULY 21, 2023

A team of researchers from The Ohio State University has developed a machine learning technique that converts old urban maps into three-dimensional digital models. The maps, created during the 19th and 20th centuries and frequently updated, were used by fire insurance companies to estimate their liabilities in about 12,000 U.S.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

To address this threat, city officials have instituted developer fees as a condition to build in the area to help finance a seawall and other protective infrastructure. Cost estimates to protect the 191-acre area are as high as $124 million.

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Brandon Donnelly

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

In the wake of Bill 23 , there has been a lot of discussion and concern around development charges and parkland dedication revenues. In the case of Toronto, the estimated figure is about $230 million of lost revenue per year. In other words, there is no evidence that developers will pass on any cost savings to the end consumer.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2023

Bank of America has awarded a $1 million grant towards the development of the National Juneteenth Museum, designed by BIG. The money will contribute to the project’s estimated $70 million price tag.

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Archinect

AUGUST 9, 2022

Through the doldrums of America’s pandemic-triggered office downturn, the nation’s capital is quickly turning into a case study for the conversion of former commercial spaces into residential housing and mixed-use development. million square feet of rentable office space a prime target for prospective developers.

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Deezen

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The toilet was developed as part of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 's Reinvent the Toilet Challenge – an initiative that started in 2011 that sought proposals for toilets that safely and effectively manage human waste. Meanwhile, the World Health Organization and UNICEF estimate that around 2.8

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Archinect

JANUARY 19, 2023

Once developed, it will join Gehry’s similarly-designed Ocean Avenue Project and the 45-story The Grand LA as the latest Gehry Partners mixed-use projects to grace the Los Angeles area this decade. The assessor’s estimate for the Sunset property was $14.75

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Archinect

MAY 26, 2022

Developers and city officials recently joined to celebrate the start of construction on a dual-building affordable housing complex in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The development site is located on Newport Street between Thatford and Rockaway Avenues and will debut as Bridge Rockaway.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Architects Orange have developed a proposal for Oklahoma City featuring what could become the " the tallest building in the United States and currently fifth tallest in the world. Oana Stănescu is the curator for the Beta 2024 Timișoar.

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Archinect

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

On Monday, the Department of City Development (DCD) announced the development teams, a mix of nonprofit and for-profit developers, that will participate in the first round of the Homes MKE initiative. A total of 66 proposals were submitted, an unprecedented number according to the DCD, with 15 developers selected.

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Brandon Donnelly

JANUARY 15, 2022

In 2018, the Utah State Legislature passed a bill creating a new land authority to guide the future development of 600 acres of state-owned land in Draper, Utah (just south of Salt Lake City). In this case, the plan is to create car free zones (or limited vehicle zones) across the various centers of the development.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

Architecture studio AO and developer Matteson Capital announced the proposal earlier this year , which sought to increase the original 1,750 feet (533 metres) tower to 1,907 feet (581 metres), unseating the 1,776-foot-tall (541 metres) SOM-designed One World Trade Center in New York. "On

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ArchDaily

JULY 7, 2023

As data from the United Nations also estimates an annual population growth rate of 0.7% , the country’s built environment is set to interact with a new discourse of demography and present its own perspective on how to build for billions. One where the design and development of the rural areas take precedence over the cities.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Promotion: the City of Copenhagen is transforming the Danish capital's harbour into a vibrant public space with recreational activities and residential developments. The development will also provide space for events, introduce nature to the site and make the area cleaner and friendlier. Image by Daniel Rasmussen.

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Archinect

JANUARY 30, 2023

According to Urbanize NYC , the Restoration Plaza development will include two 13- and 16-story mixed-use structures separated by a 4-story community building to house art galleries, a dance studio, and other cultural spaces. Current estimates are for an eight-year construction timeline.

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Archinect

JULY 28, 2022

Kathy Hochul’s loftiest projects, which is estimated to cost a total of $22 billion. Additionally, a part of the financing plan includes charging the developers of the 10 skyscrapers planned for the site a fee instead of collecting city real estate taxes.

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Deezen

MARCH 10, 2023

Direct air capture uptake has been "slow and inadequate" Using this hybrid sorbent has the potential to make DAC more time and cost-efficient, potentially bringing down the price from upwards of $600 per tonne to just $100 a tonne, the researchers estimate. The top image is by Matthias Heyde via Unsplash.

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Archinect

JULY 29, 2022

E-commerce is another common tenant, followed by light manufacturing operations from companies like IBM that leverage high-paying jobs in smaller communities like West Chester, Ohio already targeted by developers for their easier-to-navigate zoning laws. As he told the Times , "It doesn’t feel like that party will end any time soon."

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Archinect

APRIL 15, 2022

Onni Group, the Canadian real estate development firm which has emerged as one of the most prolific builders in Downtown Los Angeles, has broken ground on the neighborhood's first high-rise building since the onset of the global pandemic.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Should retail developers avoid high crime areas? Wal-Mart loses an estimated $12-18 billion in profits per year due to theft. 0 dbarista Wed, 11/15/2023 - 11:20 Retail Centers For retailers resolute to operating in high crime areas, design elements exist to mitigate losses and potentially deter criminal behavior.

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Deezen

JANUARY 10, 2022

UK housing secretary Michael Gove wrote to the "residential developer industry" to request that developers agree to "fund and undertake all necessary remediation of buildings over 11 metres that you have played a role in developing". The main photo is courtesy of Parliamentlive.tv.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If city leaders do not fix the housing plan or complete the rezoning by the new deadline, they could lose access to billions of dollars in affordable housing grants, officials with the state Department of Housing and Community Development said in a letter this week. “Rezoning the.

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Archinect

JANUARY 14, 2022

“We thought, okay, let’s make home retrofits into a scalable solution,” says Christian Richter, who works in the organization’s market development team in Germany. our estimates are that we need to hit a retrofit rate between 4% and 6%.” “And if we’re going to hit net zero by 2050.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The one offs are a riff on Ganni 's classic Bou bag made in collaboration with materials company BioFluff , which claims to have developed the "world's first plant-based fur". BioFluff fur would break down in an industrial composting facility after "several weeks", Stübler estimates, although no compostability study has been completed so far.

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