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

Deezen

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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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

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

The project has been presented as to be built "by right", i.e. according to existing zoning. Before the underlying base zoning would be in effect again, the PUD needs to be nullified. Rendered revised plan (Stonewall) The Stonewall plans emerge while the masterplanning process for the Middle Branch is underway.

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How climate, pandemic, and war shape the "future proofing" of buildings, cities and regions

Community Architect

San Diego's downtown housing, inclusionary zoning with a density bonus program , and a 10 year homeless strategy present a creative and broad arsenal of solutions, but they have not made a noticeable difference or tamed the run away housing cost yet. How will masterplans look like that plan for such a features?

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