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Foster + Partners and Sasaki Associates designing Sierra Leone island city for Idris Elba

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Architecture studios Sasaki Associates and Foster + Partners are masterplanning a smart city for up to a million people on Sherbro island in Sierra Leone. Never in my lifetime would I have thought I could build the foundation for a new smart-city. I'm not qualified for that. But I am qualified to dream big."

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Skyscraper architect Gene Kohn dies aged 92

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Gene shaped the firm he co-founded into one of the most impactful architectural practices in the world through a strong belief that relationships are the foundation of success," said the studio. "As Kohn's death today, following a year-long fight with cancer, was announced in a statement by his studio.

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GDH Yungang City Guangzhou Plot 4

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Aedas Global Design Principal Kevin Wang posits the project as Baiyun’s “vertebrae”, one that will lay the foundation for future development and growth. Greater Bay Area Technology Finance Centre. Greater Bay Area Technology Finance Centre. Masterplanning and Concept Design Architect: Aedas. Design: Aedas, Architects.

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30 Best Architecture Firms in Denmark

Architizer

With the foundation in architecture, scenography and art, JAC studios work with exhibition architecture for museums, companies as well as in public urban space. Some of CEBRA’s most prominent projects include: Al Hosn Masterplan and Landscape , Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Total Projects. JAC Studios. © JAC Studios.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Tellingly, the idea to cofound the studio came while Bordas and her partner were working together at the Louis Vuitton Foundation, an experience where the paradoxical proximity and distance between the world of design and engineering was attenuated. She has taught at Penn Design, Temple University and Columbia’s GSAPP. Dasha Khapalova.

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Westport: What is left of the big dreams

Community Architect Daily

Plus the site needs all new utilities and roads, in short, the same conditions that made Sagamore ask for the largest Tax Increment Financing deal in the history of the City. Rendered revised plan (Stonewall) The Stonewall plans emerge while the masterplanning process for the Middle Branch is underway.

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Why after 20 years EBDI is still no success story

Community Architect Daily

EBDI Masterplan 2006 with preserved houses in red North of those Amtrak tracks large swaths of disinvestment remain to this day, testimony to the fact that the EBDI piano doesn't provide enough positive energy to reach out into the north areas, only individual redevelopment activities now dot the map. The 550 student, $57.5