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Who Owns the City? - How David won Against Goliath in Downtown Columbia

Community Architect Daily

Thus there is some public governance with a County Executive, a council, a planning commission, and a full set of zoning regulations which create a sort of umbrella of rules and representation. Unlike Baltimore city, but like many other cities in the US, Columbia is part of a county, in this case Howard County.

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Competitions: Greening the Industrial City

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Registration Deadline: Sep 16, 2022; Submission Deadline Oct 18, 2022 Houston, Texas, the fourth largest city in the US, is the largest metropolitan area in the US without zoning regulations. As a result, the city is a patchwork of uses with industrial and commercial zones ensconced in residential neighborhoods.

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Towers instead of Pavilions: An entirely different Inner Harbor

Community Architect Daily

The new skyline of the Inner Harbor as per Bramble's design team The proposal departs from the original Harbor Masterplan of Wallace, Roberts Todd of the 1970s which defined an inner and an outer frame in which the inner structures had to be low with the exception of the World Trade Center. plan of Ayer Saint Gross of 2013.

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Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) wins competition to design the Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre

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The centre’s design intertwines with the city’s existing urban masterplan to connect the new multimedia library to the north of Jinghe Avenue with the new performing arts theatre, multi-function halls, studios and exhibition galleries to the south via elevated courtyards, gardens and paths that span the avenue’s eight lanes of traffic below.

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Zaha Hadid Architects wins Jinghe New City Culture & Art Centre competition

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The multimedia library’s terraces overlook its full-height atrium with diffusing skylights to provide a variety of public reading zones for individual and collective research. RBS Regulation and technical consultant: ???????????????

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Competitions: Call for ENTRIES – Croatia Inspireli Competition for students is open

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Approximately 120 residential buildings / 9-12 multifunctional buildings (restaurants, bars, cafes, spa/fitness, coworking centre, marina, sports facilities, etc.). The masterplan is divided into 8 zones in accordance with land use, specific standards and regulations.

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The misleading narratives about Harborplace

Community Architect Daily

All that was done with the mindset of the Inner Harbor as Baltimore's Commons, open to all and all happened without violating the zoning rules or the Harbor masterplan that conceived the Inner Harbor as a large public space with some generally low height attractions sprinkled within. Would a new attraction hurt? Not one would dare.