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Winners of the 2023 Architecture At Zero competition recognize innovative proposals from students and design professionals

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The 2023 edition of the Architecture At Zero celebrates another successful year of innovation and competition as student and professional teams submit their design proposals to help reimagine a teaching and innovation farm lab in Allensworth, CA.

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Australia is pushing for wood construction with $214 million Timber Building Program

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The Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC), an organization responsible for investing $10 billion in clean energy projects on behalf of the Australian government, is seeking to substantially cut construction-related emissions with a new $214 million program to encourage the use of mass timber in new building projects.

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News: Winners of the 2023 Architecture At Zero competition recognize innovative proposals from students and design professionals

Bustler

The 2023 edition of the Architecture At Zero celebrates another successful year of innovation and competition as student and professional teams submit their design proposals to help reimagine a teaching and innovation farm lab in Allensworth, CA. A total of $25,000 would be distributed amongst the winning teams.

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Habitat For Humanity Doesn’t Just Give Away Houses

Dwell

In 1984, President Carter was out for a jog in New York City and saw a group of students working on a Habitat project City ; he said, "We have to get involved with this," and shortly after that he and Mrs. Carter joined in. Most of the financing isn’t direct A to B; we made a big bet on microfinancing, in particular. In the U.S.,

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Reinvestment without displacement: North Avenue Market

Community Architect Daily

In all cases money from the Future Fund seeded the project and all types of other funds and tax credits are used to finance the usually very high cost of building stabilization and repair to save the buildings and the users that have found a home in them. Almost a city block: Floorplan of the market in the current "chopped up" state.

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HOK Architects: Architecture Office News

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A native of Montreal, Quebec, Fieldman was raised in a bilingual English-French household and spent two years in Italy as a student studying photography and fresco painting. The IIFC will house the head offices of the country’s financial market governing bodies, state-owned and private banks, and related businesses.

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Scottish Architecture News: Buildings in Scotland

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Supported by the Scottish Government, the Award recognises the contribution housing makes to social and cultural conversations and rewards innovation. The Scottish Government has agreed that Fife College can progress to the next stage of its project to deliver the first net zero tertiary education building in Scotland. 24 Nov 2021.