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New York Governor Kathy Hochul announces $200 million grant program to attract high-tech industries across the state

Archinect

New York Governor Kathy Hochul has announced plans to set aside $200 million for the new Focused Attraction of Shovel-Ready Tracts New York (FAST NY) grant program, which aims to attract and expand key growth industries to New York State. The money has been made available through Hochul’s fiscal year 2023 budget.

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Five architecture and design events from China in January

Deezen

Celebrating its 70th anniversary, Compasso d'Oro showcases projects from 1954 to the present day across seven design themes, including Craft and Industry, The Power of Communication, Invention and Creation.

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Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

Deezen

Chinese architects have told Dezeen they are regularly working through the night while their pay plummets as the country 's property industry deals with a severe crisis. And there is currently no end in sight for the industry's troubles, with architecture firms now struggling to compete for a dwindling number of projects at lower fees.

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"Cities are branding themselves into predictably unique products"

Deezen

The city is increasingly thought of as prop and backdrop for a life lived on Instagram These are just a few of the elements of the city authentic, the third and latest movement of urban development. The city authentic is global but it is largely endemic to small and medium-sized post-industrial cities in rich nations.

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Event: SMPS-NY's “State of the AEC” Panel Discussion

Bustler

Event Date: Jan 16, 2024; Event City: New York, NY, US As we enter 2024, the AEC industry stands at a crucial juncture, with transformative changes sweeping across the globe. This year’s panel brings together top industry leaders and visionaries to examine the industry’s future. and $1 billion.

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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. Louis and Paris/Indonesia/Flanders. So why include it?

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Jinling East Road Area Urban regeneration project by Benoy

aasarchitecture

Cities change every day, and urban renewal is a constantly ongoing process. Faced with increasing land resource shortages for urban development, first-tier world-class cities such as Shanghai (ranked Alpha+ according to GaWC 2018) face an urgent need to switch from ‘incremental expansion’ to ‘tapping of reserves’. Image © Benoy.

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