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San Francisco's bridge authority is finally moving forward to amend the Golden Gate's noisy new feature

Archinect

The maddening hum of safety slats on the pedestrian handrails of the Golden Gate Bridge will finally be silenced under a recently released proposal by the Bridge District. The haunting acoustic hum is the direct result of a $12 million wind retrofit project authored by the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District.

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A Golden Age

SW Oregon Architect

Whether these qualify the period as a “golden age” for the profession is my own subjective judgement, but I know the magnitude of those advancements and the sociocultural circumstances in which they arose allowed me to flourish. Historians most usually define golden ages by contrasting them with adjacent periods.

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A Vertical Gallery?Ersha Island MAN LAP FONG / FEI Architects by FEI Architects

Archinect

However, according to its original planning in 1980's, all the developments on this island were targeted at foreign buyers and ordinary local citizens were even denied access to it, which demonstrates its superior location. The Manlap Fong project is located at the last piece of land along the "Cultural Golden Coast".

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Invisible Studio & Pearce+ tops domed woodworking pavilion with aluminium shingles

Deezen

Invisible Studio & Pearce+ constructed a domed woodworking pavilion at Westonbirt arboretum "We prototyped a way of supporting a roof on 'branches' with our students on a live build project and it worked really well," Invisible Studio founder Piers Taylor told Dezeen. "We

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Giant novelty structures at Disney hotel captured in Arnau Rovira Vidal photos

Deezen

Rovira 's Fantasia Resorts photography project pictures holidaymakers and workers among the fantastical, retro-themed structures at the entertainment conglomerate's Walt Disney World near Orlando. At those resorts, the fantastic world and reality mix all the time," Arnau told Dezeen. You don't know what is fake or how is this made."

Structure 132
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Bruno Mars and Yabu Pushelberg design cocktail lounge at Las Vegas casino

Deezen

The stone bar at The Pinky Ring is surrounded by golden drapes that are reflected in the mirrored ceiling Grammy Award-winning artist Mars collaborated with Canadian studio Yabu Pushelberg to craft an elevated and luxurious space within the Bellagio Resort and Casino. The photography is by Sean Davidson.

Design 136
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Seestadt Aspern Housing by Berger + Parkkinen brought Red Vienna into the 21st century

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The first case study in our Social Housing Revival series looks at a housing block in Vienna organised around a central "common heart" that harks back to the city's golden age of municipal construction.

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