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

Community Architect

Furthermore, even where technology is supposed to come to the rescue, for example at renewable energies and transportation, implementation is often numbingly slow. Locating housing near access to food, work and transportation makes it less auto dependent, more sustainable and more resilient, all important aspects of future proofing.

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Ten Pairs of Books for Christmas

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

and "foundation" (piles, spread, caissons). It's an excellent book, as is the second installment in Leslie's series of books on skyscrapers in Chicago, but the subtitle of the second book, How Technology, Politics, Finance, and Race Reshaped the City , indicates the incorporation of those wider contexts eschewed in the first book.

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100+ tallest buildings in the world

Architecture Quote

A huge white-clad podium frame form foundation and the three towers ascending at each intersection. Its foundation integrates a combination of structural steel and reinforced concrete named Buckling Suspension Braces , helping to counter the possible impacts of earthquakes. Hengqin International Finance Center – Height 337.7

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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. Left: Willem II Passage; right: Ingrid van der Heijden, image via Architizer.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

e-architect

Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us? Do We Need Libraries?

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#ResignModi

Raj Patel

Unable to find public transport home, and criminalized for remaining where the lockdown had left them, some walked hundreds of kilometers, dying along the way. The following week India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman held a series of press conferences detailing the package. It was textbook disaster capitalism. agriculture.