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Lost Masterpieces: 6 Iconic Buildings That Met the Wrecking Ball

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Despite preservation campaigns and protests, the structure’s owners, the Pennsylvania Railroad, embarked on a three-year demolition plan in 1963 and rented out the air rights to the site. While a developer was sought to fund the structure’s restoration, the appeal was unsuccessful. Erected in its place was Madison Square Garden.

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ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

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The living breakwater is the connective tissue for the overall masterplan and will be punctuated by a series of site-specific installations. Titled Concrete Coral, the site-specific installation will reframe cars and trucks—a symbol of the emissions that endanger our planet—as new vehicles for environmental change.

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Gerkan Marg & Partners – gmp architects

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Von Gerkan was co-founder of the gmp Foundation and of the Academy for Architectural Culture (aac). The aac is a non-profit organization focused on the educational development of graduates and young architects. Therefore, our work as university professors and in the gmp Foundation was particularly important to us. 23 Sep 2020.

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Spanish Architecture News: Buildings in Spain

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Integrating the HARIVENASA – Oat Factory, a large cereal processing factory into the site posed an additional challenge to the already complex design task. Joint Research Centre for the European Commission , EXPO ´92 Sevilla site, Isla de la Cartuja, Seville, southwestern Spain. Norman Foster Foundation Madrid.

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

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Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. He helped set foundations for using ecosystem models to manage the Chesapeake; these models were among the first to simulate the bay’s pre-colonial state and forecast the importance of nitrogen pollution. Agreements go back for decades.

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Nine architecture, preservation and development projects by students at Tulane University

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The MSHP degree provides a rigorous foundation in the core principles and concepts of historic preservation practice in the United States and beyond. Four main coastal zones are proposed, in which hard infrastructure is adapted, ecological restoration is prioritised and new housing typologies support densification of higher ground."

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10 Architects Who Can – and Should – Win the Pritzker Prize

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Architizer’s A+Awards program was founded with the precise aim of countering the culture of starchitecture, which erases the very foundation of architectural practice: collaboration. Climate, materials, site, culture, and local history are hallmarks of Marina Tabassum’s output.

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