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Yancheng East Lake Xinyu Commercial by Lacime Architects

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This project is located in the Urban Sports Park and along the canal in the Eastern Development Zone of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Surrounded by government offices, residential areas, reception hotels, and other facilities, it represents a typical new urban development zone in China.

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The Bronze Chariots Museum of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi’an by Atelier Diameter

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The ambience of the mausoleum survived from the rapid urban development in modern China, and providentially keeps the landscape structure of mountains and plains as it was before the common era, projecting the ever-lasting charisma of the first emperor who conquered all the states and united China with unbounded confidence.

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Kongjian Yu wins 2023 Cornelia Hahn Oberlander award

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Yu's work has been influenced by the devastation that monsoons caused to cities in China, and in 2014 the government adopted his sponge city concept as a "guiding theory" for future urban development. "And it is also recognizing and honoring Oberland's vision and manifesto."

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The Future of Architecture: BioDiverCities and Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

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.” This report presents a vision of a nature-positive urban development that addresses climate challenges and ensures that all urban activities have a positive environmental impact by 2030. This waterfront site was originally wetlands before transitioning into an industrial area. Design by Redland-scape.

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Grozny masterplanning competition, Chechen Republic

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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”. The Prize Pool is 20 Million Ruble.

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YACademy architecture students design conceptual pediatric clinics

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Group 1's clinic centres around an inner courtyard "These architecture projects focus on pediatric clinics, which range from buildings that aim to generate a sense of community, to projects intended to enhance the urban development of a remote village.

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Sustainable living is "not viable outside cities" says Hélène Chartier of C40 Cities

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At C40 Cities, Hélène Chartier (above) facilitates low carbon urban developments such as Milan's Piazzale Loreto (top image). So Chartier suggests that local governments should enforce growth boundaries to reduce travel distances and limit urban sprawl.

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