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Unlocking Urban Potential: Street Vending Integration Strategies in Informal Settings

ArchDaily

From the days of the Roman Forum to the Silk Road and the markets of ancient Greece, they are undoubtedly essential parts of urban life, or “the center of all that is unofficial. However, these erratic and adaptive urban spaces serve core functions in any developing city, acting as pillars of community in many different facets of society.

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Goldfinger launches ash furniture that lets people "own a piece of Tate Modern"

Deezen

Social enterprise Goldfinger has launched its bespoke Tate Modern furniture collection made from fallen trees at London Design Festival. The furniture has chunky square legs with rounded corners, intending to reference the Tate Modern building and Trellick Tower, where the Goldfinger workshop is located.

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Savage + Dodd aimed to "set the preconditions for change" with South Africa housing project

Deezen

Dodd characterises contemporary South African cities as "incremental, dense-edge cities" brimming with informal inhabitation, illegal densification and environmental decay as a result of the disruptive political shifts from colonialism to apartheid to democracy. There's a huge housing challenge," said Dodd. "We

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Render vs Reality: How Mecanoo Masters the Image in Design

Architizer

It is home to the city’s cultural heritage, modern art, music, films and over a million books, including more than 16,000 from the Japanese occupation period and of course, is equipped with the latest technologies of a modern library. The massing strategy creates urban integration through fragmentation.

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Architecture and the Economy: Inside China’s Ghost Cities

Architizer

Sign up for key information about the 12th Annual A+Awards, set to launch this fall. In recent months, as rumors of China’s economic crisis have spread, the images that seem to interest people the most are photographs of China’s so-called “ghost cities” — urban developments that are eerily under-occupied.

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Tarpon Bend Residence, Fort Lauderdale USA

e-architect

Tarpon Bend Residence, Fort Lauderdale House, Florida Home, Modern USA Property, Architecture Photography. Reflecting the firm’s deep commitment to a design philosophy it dubs ‘Environmental Modernism,’ the award-winning residence also showcases numerous sustainable design moves. Tarpon Bend Residence in Fort Lauderdale. Nov 14, 2022.

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Parkveien 27-31 by Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter a social success and architectural precision

aasarchitecture

Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter’s winning proposal for Parkveien 27-31, a precise architectural operation in an urban city block behind the Royal Palace in Oslo’s Lille Uranienborg quarter, has revived an important project that had been embroiled in controversy.