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Taming Nature: How Architecture is Redefining Its Relationship with the Environment

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Image Stanley Fung Integrating natural elements into architectural design has long been a fundamental pursuit in creating comfortable, sustainable environments that enhance both individual well-being and the relationship between buildings and their surrounding context.

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COP29 Highlights: Key Takeaways for Cities and the Built Environment

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Below are the key takeaways from COP29 for the built environment and urban spaces. From commitments to climate finance and carbon markets to renewable energy and resilience-building, the summit's decisions provide a roadmap for transforming cities into hubs of climate innovation and adaptation. Read more »

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The Science of Design: How Neuroscience can Help Architects Shape the Built Environment

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Image © Ludovica Mangini Salone del Mobile.Milano In recent years, the integration of neuroscience and architecture has revolutionized our understanding of how built environments influence human well-being, behavior, and cognition.

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Public Restrooms: 15 Projects That Provide Functionality and Comfort in Urban Environments

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Recognizing these issues, various architects have taken on the challenge of transforming these spaces into functional and pleasant environments , experimenting with innovative proposals to address these needs. However, these spaces often come with discomforts, including lack of accessibility, absence of privacy, and poor cleanliness.

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Towards an Architecture of Many Intelligences: How Collective Knowledge Shapes the Built Environment

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Vernacular traditions embed generations of environmental knowledge, often transmitted through materials, construction techniques, and spatial logics finely tuned to local conditions; participatory platforms expand decision-making to wider communities to take part in shaping their environments, redistributing agency in the design process; and computational (..)

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Emissions policies are working to ‘decouple' building sector from continuous growth, says UN Environment Programme report

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The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and Global Alliance for Buildings and Construction (GlobalABC) have released a new status report on emissions benchmarks with findings relevant to the global building sector.

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10 libraries, schools, and learning environments we enjoyed this week

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In case you haven't checked out Archinect's Pinterest boards in a while, we have compiled ten recently pinned images from outstanding projects on various Archinect Firm and People profiles. Today's top images (in no particular order) are from the board Learning Spaces.