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Dubai Mangroves by URB

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This initiative aims to integrate ecological preservation with urban development, enhancing Dubai’s coastline with a vision of planting more than 100 million mangrove trees over 72 kilometers. The project is spearheaded by URB, the same masterminds of the Dubai Reefs Project and The Loop in Dubai.

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7 Ways Landscape Architects Broke New Ground in 2022

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From challenging traditional urban typologies to innovating exciting new approaches to ecological design, discover the remarkable ways that landscape architects broke new ground in 2022. Innovating Water Management. These exceptional winning landscape projects from the 10 th Annual A+Awards achieve precisely that.

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6 Ways Residential Architecture Can Impact Your Health

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The Biophilic Stress Reduction Theory suggests that exposure to natural elements restores mental and physiological balance, with studies supporting the integration of indoor biophilic elements like plants, living walls and natural materials for bringing nature’s benefits indoors.

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Gent Design Museum, Belgium

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Led by urban development company Sogent in collaboration with Design Museum Gent, Carmody Groarke, RE-ST and TRANS Architectuur, the project aims to sensitively restore the museum’s existing buildings, extend the original masterplan and broaden the museum’s programme of design culture and visitor outreach.

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Lost Masterpieces: 6 Iconic Buildings That Met the Wrecking Ball

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While a developer was sought to fund the structure’s restoration, the appeal was unsuccessful. Combining flowing, elegant lines, including Horta’s signature whiplash curve, with innovative materials such as iron and glass, the structure negotiated a careful dance between estheticism and industrialism.

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American Prize for Architecture 2022

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Their latest project is neither supertall in New York, Sidney, or Melbourne nor a massive urban redevelopment of declining area of a megalopolis, but a humble and enduring restoration of an early 20th-Century campus, including the design for a new U.S. Consulate building in Milan.

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ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

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BlueLab develops responsive strategies and solutions with a core mission to educate and inspire global environmental action by directing funds raised through philanthropy towards innovative projects (domestic and worldwide) that seek to restore, reinforce, and protect coastal marine ecosystems, rivers, and lakes.