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Urban Challenges of Hillside Cities

ArchDaily

While these areas can offer panoramic views and impressive landscapes, the steep topography presents a series of challenges in terms of urban planning, structural safety, and socio-environmental risks.

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5+1 Residence by Rooydaad Architects

Archinect

In the bustling urban landscape of Tehran, a metropolis in perpetual motion, one of the prevailing architectural endeavors is the construction of five-story infill residential projects. 5+1 Residence" exemplified this trend.

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How to properly assess structural wind damage

BD+C

How to properly assess structural wind damage 0 dbarista Mon, 06/05/2023 - 16:17 Engineers Properly assessing wind damage can identify vulnerabilities in a building's design or construction, which could lead to future damage or loss, writes Matt Wagner, SE, Principal and Managing Director with Walter P Moore.

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Ten post-industrial structures from the Black Country

Deezen

From factories and warehouses to shop fronts and underpasses, Hicks explores the structures that make up the post-industrial landscape of the West Midlands region known as the Black Country. The landscape I grew up in is human-made. There are improvised and patched-up structures all over the region." "I

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Goose Creek Safety Rest Area // VJAA Inc.

Architizer

An Apparatus for “Slowing Things Down”The Goose Creek Safety Rest Area is sited along Interstate 35 at the Gateway to the Arrowhead Region, a part of Minnesota that includes the Boundary Waters Wilderness Area, the Gunflint Trail, and the scenic North Shore of Lake Superior. © VJAA Inc. © VJAA Inc. © VJAA Inc. © VJAA Inc. © VJAA Inc.

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U.S. playgrounds are becoming more unique, accessible, and "dangerous"

Archinect

safety standards, giving American children more opportunity to take risks and push limits. Its playground was designed around the theme of sound waves, featuring ramps and climbing structures that form ribbons of waves throughout. The centerpiece is a structure encased in a three-story tower resembling a 1950s radio microphone.

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Miller Hull's redwood laboratory for UC Santa Cruz aims to be light on the land

Archinect

Seattle-based firm The Miller Hull Partnership has designed an important new laboratory building for the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) that will have a light impact on the lush natural landscape that surrounds it. ” Image courtesy The Miller Hull Partnership In respons.

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