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Manhattan’s office building spree is now ‘over,’ according to the New York Times

Archinect

Due to an obvious confluence of interest rates, office vacancy records, and construction costs, the Times says Manhattan is “entering its most significant office construction drought since after the savings and loan crisis in the late 1980s and early ’90s.”

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Winners of the 2021 WARMING Competition propose urban sedimentology, whale-based carbon capture, and flood-proof farming

Archinect

The challenge invited students and professionals from the fields of architecture, planning, and design to create and imagine the future of our built environment as it responds to our world's greatest crisis: climate change. the brief asked.

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'Despair is useless': Mike Davis reflects on California, the climate crisis, life, and legacy as he faces his own mortality

Archinect

“A small group of people have more concentrated power over the human future than ever before in human history, and they have no vision, no strategy, no plan. It’s not just global warming, and drought, it’s the fact that two.

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The Add-Ons Are Seemingly Endless With Modern Tiny Living’s $85K Tiny Homes

Dwell

From space-saving hacks to flexible floor plans, here’s what they say makes for the best tiny homes on the planet. Here, Haery explains exactly what Modern Tiny Living builds, and how the company plans to reach a wider audience. Welcome to Tiny Home Profiles, an interview series with people pushing the limits of living small.

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Pink Varnish Puts a Playful Spin on a Brutalist Apartment in Athens

Dwell

The lower floor hosts the family’s living quarters (a large primary suite and two children’s bedrooms with auxiliary spaces), while the upper floor is an open plan living area, organically composed of various seating and dining spaces, and an open kitchen. The apartment is composed of two floors and a rooftop garden. "The

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Leong Leong transforms 1970s Los Angeles ranch house into "suburban sanctuary"

Deezen

An aluminium-clad media room sits in the middle of the plan "Our approach was also informed by artists like Dan Graham and Mike Kelly, whose work explores how suburban architecture shapes our social experience and the complexities that underlie its conventional façade," the team said.

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Together for the Terroir

Landscape Architecture Magazine

That collaborative approach, forged in the years when the region was a small community of primarily agricultural family businesses, might explain why landscape-focused planning—first for drought, now for wildfires—has been successful. Surviving Fires And Drought. Courtesy Christie Jarvis/Ann Baker Landscape Architecture.

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