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Vitra "willing to take risks" over changing products' appearance to improve sustainability, says CEO Nora Fehlbaum

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One of the industry's best known and most influential manufacturers, Vitra 's collections include iconic pieces such as Eames plastic shell chairs and Panton chairs. Vitra's greatest contribution to sustainability is its products with an above-average service life, which omit everything superfluous," she told Dezeen.

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Grozny masterplanning competition, Chechen Republic

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The action is supported by the Govern-ment of the Chechen Republic, Grozny Mayor Office and DOM.RF, a Russian federal government program operator for sustainable urban development. The site covers 360 square kilometers and includes both the city and the municipal okrug. The Prize Pool is 20 Million Ruble.

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K64 Keflavík Airport Area Masterplan by KCAP wins the 2023 The Plan Award

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Sitting at the crossroads of Europe and North America, home to the Reykjanes UNESCO Global Geopark, the airport area is exceptionally well suited to become one of the leading developments for sustainable innovation in the aviation, energy and technology sectors.

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Mixed-use development will occupy former manufacturing industrial site near the Chicopee River

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A former manufacturing industrial site located alongside the Chicopee River in Chicopee, Mass., The sustainable mixed-use masterplan, designed by Paul A. is set to become a new mixed-use development. Plans for the project were recently approved by the City of Chicopee’s Department of Planning and Development.

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DS+R unveils design proposal for the Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalita Humphreys Theater masterplan

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At the civic scale, the masterplan reimagines the public green as a vibrant and democratic urban park. The masterplan prioritizes the surgical restoration of the historic building, adhering as closely as possible to Wright’s 1959 design. Image © Diller Scofidio + Renfro. Photo © Jerome Weeks.

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Justina Blakeney, Keiji Ashizawa and Claudia Afshar announced as Dezeen Awards 2024 judges

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Her designs start with hand-drawn illustrations, watercolours and paints that are manufactured into prints, wallpaper, bedding, pillows and rugs. Last year Afshar collaborated with Spanish surface manufacturer Cosentino to launch Dekton Ukiyo, a fluted tile collection informed by Japanese contemporary design.

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ORG Engages in Sustainable Planning and Develops the D4PV Project Constructing Marine Multifunctional Landscape Infrastructures

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The D4PV project is therefore in addition to a conceptual masterplan for MMLIs in the North Sea, it is a generic toolbox that can be used co-creatively for the creation of multifunctional marine landscape infrastructures around the world. How important was sustainability as a design criteria as you worked on this project? .