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7 Ways Landscape Architects Broke New Ground in 2022

Architizer

Too often, urbanization is undertaken at the expense of the natural environment rather than in support of it. When architects respond thoughtfully to a site’s native ecology, development can elevate nature and shape meaningful, enduring spaces that enrich the planet and the lives of its population.

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26 Pioneering Architecture Firms Rethinking the Fundamentals of Design

Architizer

Many studios embraced socially and environmentally conscious design approaches, rising to meet some of the most pressing challenges facing the built environment today, from the climate crisis, sustainability and land scarcity to the need for truly accessible and inclusive spaces.

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National Athletics Center, Budapest, Hungary

e-architect

The development will provide pedestrian, cycling and waterway connections to the entire northern and southern areas of the Pest-side embankment, all the way to Csepel Island. To access the area of the National Athletics Center and Park two new routes have been built and one has been rebuilt.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in the Netherlands

Architizer

Kraaijvanger strives to create healthy environments for people to work, learn, and enjoy themselves in. Such as public spaces, public buildings, and urban districts, where unique encounters occur, where memories are made, and where important decisions are taken. We have building experience in both the Netherlands and abroad.

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Norilsk Design Competition, Russia

e-architect

The competion is mainly focussed on a view on the physical and urban development of the city, its landscape and also economic and touristic promotion. For me the social development is also an important second part of this view on the future. I really am looking forward to this moment of presentations in March.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

A 2004 paper published by the Ohio State University calls James Rouse a "Merchant of Illusion" and argues that the private emulation of public markets had been an "idealistic abject failure" in which Rouse's "midas touch" would always turn "modest flavorful stall environments into chain dominated selling environments".

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25 Best Architecture Firms in Spain

Architizer

The 19th century also brought forth a boom in urban development, with large city expansions and increased attention to urbanization (the term was actually coined in Barcelona ); such planning efforts continue to inform the nation’s public housing projects of today. We are experts in low cost architecture and design.