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Grozny masterplanning competition, Chechen Republic

e-architect

We will contribute to the process by transforming Grozny into a financial, trading and industrial hub, by forging partnerships with the Middle Eastern countries, and by adopting and amplifying the best practices in good governance, education, recrea-tion and agriculture sectors”.

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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

In the alternative universe of this story, each of the familiar roles in city governance is played by a private entity: Instead of a city council there is a board of directors. But this city is not governed by a city charter but by the bylaws of a giant home-owners association (HOA). The jury verdict the answer is: No.

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Nine projects that encapsulate The Laboratory of the Future at Venice Architecture Biennale

Deezen

"Africa's unique context, which is both richly challenging and richly creative, means it's a powerful place from which to examine the issues that will dominate the next century – climate change, societal change, demographic change, new forms of governance, explosive urbanity."

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Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

Community Architect Daily

The new skyline of the Inner Harbor as per Bramble's design team The proposal departs from the original Harbor Masterplan of Wallace, Roberts Todd of the 1970s which defined an inner and an outer frame in which the inner structures had to be low with the exception of the World Trade Center. plan of Ayer Saint Gross of 2013.

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Exclusive: inside Raffles London at The OWO with EPR Architects

Hotel Designs

EPR Architects developed the overall masterplan of the development to offer permeability for guests and link the vertical and horizontal circulation routes for all key back-of-house to front-of-house spaces. This then sat as the backdrop for the interior designers to evolve their input. But perhaps that is part of this project’s charm.

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Manchester School of Architecture presents 13 architecture student projects

Deezen

Developing a new innovation park and transport trade centre in Dordrecht, Netherlands, through naturalised riparian expansion will support job creation for Starrt Harbour residents and generate increased revenue for local government and businesses in the future.

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Competitions: Open Call: International Competition for Conceptual Design of the Greenway around Xili Lake (Phase I)

Bustler

In Shenzhen Municipal Government Work Report (2022), it clearly states that Shenzhen will build a first-class livable city, construct a park city, implement the "Mountain-Sea-City Connection Plan", and connect the urban ecological structure of "one ridge, one belt and twenty corridors".