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Gent Design Museum, Belgium

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Led by urban development company Sogent in collaboration with Design Museum Gent, Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur, the project aims to sensitively restore the museum’s existing buildings, extend the original masterplan and broaden the museum’s programme of design culture and visitor outreach.

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Lost Masterpieces: 6 Iconic Buildings That Met the Wrecking Ball

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Sadly, this early dream of sustainable housing was never fully realized. While a developer was sought to fund the structure’s restoration, the appeal was unsuccessful. The 1960s heralded a destructive spate of urban development in Brussels, from which the neologism Brusselization was coined.

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ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

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Led by its Chair Ximena Caminos, and Vice Chair Kate Fleming of environmental-art organization Bridge Initiative, the Blue Lab Preservation Society employs art, science, culture and design as galvanizing channels for its sustainability program. Miami Elizabeth Wheaton, Environment & Sustainability Department, City of Miami Beach.

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. Bridging between climate scientists, economists, biologists, hydrologists and cultural anthropologists remains a challenge that the event about which I am reporting took on. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.

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Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

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With 34 kilometres of shelving, the State Church archive now has more than twice the storage space compared to previously and, in addition, accommodates a restoration workshop and enough space for visitor rooms. HafenCity Pedestrian and Cycle Bridge , Hamburg, Germany – 12 Sep 2013. image © gmp. Hanoi Museum , Vietnam.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

The goal is to encourage urban policies that promote justice, sustainability, and inclusion in cities. Their shine began to dim as soon as they were no longer carefully managed for tenancy and events. The new managers did pay no attention to fresh new retail, events and activities that would continue to draw people.

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10 Architects Who Can – and Should – Win the Pritzker Prize

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Since having worked as an adviser for the Ministry of Urban Development and Housing in Mexico City for two years early in her career, Bilbao has acted as a leader of architectural discussions and research into affordable housing — and not the anonymous cookie-cutter type that might come to mind.

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