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SAL floating public building by SOUR

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Building on a site that is at high risk of and requires extensive ground improvements, how might we create a substructure that is naturally isolated from earthquake loads, floods, and rising sea levels? How might we rethink the ground conditions to minimize the impacts of earthquakes? Is it possible to have a building with no foundation?

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Thomas Randall-Page completes Cody Dock Rolling Bridge in London

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Called Cody Dock Rolling Bridge, it is part of a masterplan by London studio PUP Architects that is reviving the former Victorian dock on the River Lea for use by pedestrians. The bridge takes inspiration from the simple mechanisms of Victorian industrial design. The photography and video are by Jim Stephenson.

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CookFox releases photos of linked towers at Brooklyn's Domino Sugar Refinery

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American firm CookFox Architects has completed a pair of tall, connected buildings with gridded facades for a Williamsburg site that once held an iconic sugar factory. In recent years, the former industrial property – which stands prominently in Brooklyn along the East River – has been converted into a mixed-use development.

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MVRDV win competition for Hangzhou Oil Refinery Factory Park

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Currently, China is taking steps to transform the Grand Canal along its entire length, turning this industrial infrastructure into a social amenity by allowing access to, and enjoyment of, the water to millions of people that live along the canal’s 1,700-kilometre length.

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Jinwan Huafa International Business Centre by 10 Design

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International Architecture Practice, 10 Design (part of Egis Group) is pleased to announce the completion of Jinwan Huafa International Business Center, an iconic landmark as well as growth engine of the Jinwan District in the coastal city of Zhuhai, China. Photo © Seilao Jiong The project sits within a wider 3.8

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Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands Architects

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The site presented challenging constraints including a former tenants’ hall and public right of way, existing mature trees and a neighbouring terrace of listed Georgian buildings. The landscape design achieves a net gain in biodiversity and exceeds the required urban greening factor of 0.5.

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Jinwan Huafa International Business Centre, Zhuhai

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Located on a prime waterfront site in Zhuhai, China, the 172,033 sq m International Business Centre (IBC) is a mixed-use complex comprising hotel, office, serviced apartment and retail spaces. The other two developments include the Industrial Services Centre and Jinwan Mall which sits across the Jinsha Lake.