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

Architizer

With ground set to be broken next year on the first stages of the monumental development and the first structures set to welcome tenants from 2027, the company is master-planning a small city in Sickla, Stockholm. If the scale of this undertaking wasn’t already apparent, Håkan Hyllengren, Head of Development, quickly makes amends.

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Grozny masterplanning competition, Chechen Republic

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DOM.RF, a Russian federal agency for mortgage services and urban development, delivers funding in support of the formidable goal. A master-plan is a comprehensive strategic document correlating urban design with economic development of the territory, guiding future growth and development», – said Anton Finogenov.

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

Community Architect Daily

The magic of water : An early town center model and an artificial lake Waterfront development, outdated structures dating back to James Rouse's original vision now slated for demolition, and a dispute over development rights and community interests - who would not immediately think of Baltimore's HarborPlace?

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ORG Engages in Sustainable Planning and Develops the D4PV Project Constructing Marine Multifunctional Landscape Infrastructures

Architizer

The D4PV project is therefore in addition to a conceptual masterplan for MMLIs in the North Sea, it is a generic toolbox that can be used co-creatively for the creation of multifunctional marine landscape infrastructures around the world. Combining the many streams of expert research was the art of developing this plan.

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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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The misleading narratives about Harborplace

Community Architect Daily

In an unprecedented well coordinated effort of selling the notion to the general public that Baltimore would be better off if MCB's HarborPlace renderings became reality, the Mayor, the local councilman and the developer himself spin misleading or outright deceptive narratives. See this PBS documentary ). This, too misses the mark.

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

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Supported by new scientific research institutes and driven by environmental considerations, the city is becoming a centre for developing industries focussing on new energy and materials, artificial intelligence and aerospace. Jinghe New City is growing as a science and technology hub north of Xi’an in China’s Shaanxi province.

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