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The Future of Architecture: BioDiverCities and Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

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Imagine a city where vibrant green spaces and natural solutions not only enhance our urban landscapes but also boost our well-being, creating healthier and happier urban environments. Architects and landscape architects are instrumental in the practical implementation of NbS in urban environments.

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News: ACSA and Buell Center select 2024 winners of Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

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This proposal is the first of a multi-year, research studio that will explore how earth-based construction (compressed earth block) might be leveraged for sustainable urban development (housing) in the Phoenix metropolitan region. The course begins by questioning romanticized visions of an idyllic, preindustrial past.

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Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base Expansion Project // Shanghai TIANHUA Urban Planning & Design Co., Ltd.

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Shanghai TIANHUA Urban Planning & Design Co., Since Chengdu, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, has been facing a huge conflict between wildlife protection and urban development, Panda Base expansion project needs a sustainable framework that generates win-win for ecology and development.

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6 Ways Residential Architecture Can Impact Your Health

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Beyond mere aesthetics, certain architectural qualities are crucial in shaping our living environments and influencing our physical, mental and emotional well-being. Designing for morning sunlight entry for example, will offer softer illumination, reducing overheating and glare, resulting in a comfortable living environment.

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7 Ways Landscape Architects Broke New Ground in 2022

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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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Quartier Autopalst by Smartvoll Architects

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Small businesses, workshops, residential buildings and open spaces alternate around the Autopalast and form a heterogeneous and hardly structured environment. There are multiple reactions to this urban diversity. The adjoining building gap is closed in order to restore the clarity of the block edge.

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Adaptive Reuse Revolution: 7 Commercial Projects Potently Preserving the Past

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While demolition yields a blank slate, it erases the historic roots of our built environments and is a wholly unsustainable practice. The original restored brickwork envelops the work zones is rich in history and texture, offering an ideal acoustic environment for recording. Modern interventions are sensitively negotiated.