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The Forestias // Foster + Partners

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The Forestias is a residential-led masterplan, with a large forest at its heart. At the heart of the site, the forest defines the essence of the development – showcasing the relationship between the built and natural environments. Project Status: Under Construction. Size: 1,000,000 +. Text description provided by the architects.

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Vanke Coastal City by CLOU architects

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Showcasing the future potential of diversified regional development, the Qingdao Vanke Coastal City combines work and living spaces in an accumulative contextual setting that builds on the natural environment and panoramic views of the site. Source by CLOU architects.

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The Forestias Bangkok sustainable quarter

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Grant Associates led the landscape masterplan through concept and scheme design with TK Studio taking it forward to detailed stages. Establishing a positive relationship with nature is the key element that underpins the design of The Forestias masterplan. Capping it all are super luxury villas called the ‘Six Senses’ residences.

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MVRDV wins competition to design nature-inspired Oasis Towers in Nanjing

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The project spans two adjacent blocks on the edge of the Jiangbei Financial District masterplan. Peppered with trees and other greenery, the oasis forms a green landscape on the building’s cascading terraces, a lush environment for shopping in the building’s commercial floors from ground level up to the third floor. Image © Atchain.

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Team VenhoevenCS wins tender for major riverside redevelopment in Shenzhen

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Team VenhoevenCS-HOPE-HUADONG has designed the winning masterplan for a new living landscape along the central Pailao River in the Bao’an district in Shenzhen, China. The climate-adaptive transformation of these neighborhoods and their public space became essential to the masterplan. Image © HOPE Landscape Design.

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HarborPlace Design Review - Round 2: More Questions

Community Architect Daily

Based on studies of the building form, the environments and public space will shift again and need to be solved. Pavlia Ilieva comment: I question that the masterplan logic requires that the spaces they create with the connections need to be filled with buildings. If not, then show the Panel why it is properly located.

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UNStudio wins the competition for Belsenpark

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The approximately 90 meter tall building will be located at the entrance of the city, culminating at the Belsenpark masterplan urban development in the district of Oberkassel, on the left bank of the river Rhine. Facade diagram. Below the seventh floor, the residential high-rise merges into flexibly designed co-working office spaces.

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