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PEOPLE AND PASEOS

Landscape Architecture Magazine

And across the country, existing street infrastructure is being retrofitted to create active transportation networks—at great cost to cities. The design team sketched, built models, tested ideas. Culdesac represents an opportunity to design for car independence from the get-go. Photo courtesy Culdesac.

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Manchester School of Architecture presents 12 architecture and urbanism projects

Deezen

Creating a low-carbon environment by minimising the use of motorized transport by Effimia Athanasakopoulou, Giorgos Porakos and Holly Millburn. "[CPU]ai The project by Effimia Athanasakopoulou, Giorgos Porakos and Holly Millburn was based around creating a low-carbon environment by minimising the use of motorised transport.

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How the Governor and MTA want to get the Red Line done

Community Architect Daily

How to transfer the previous design and engineering of tracks, tunnels, stations and the maintenance facility as intact as possible to a new set of engineers and transportation planners without spending $270 million again before the new teams become "comfotable" and are willing to assume the liabilities that come from signing off on a design.

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

Community Architect

Part 1 covered transportation. For everything a physical model: GROUP A (Photo: Philipsen) With CARBONLAB we anticipate upcoming regulations and incentives. From sketch phase to user phase, we investigate how we can reduce the CO2 footprint of our design proposals. Visible to everyone.(

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ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION (The Internship)

Lines on Paper

Other than the basic office rules/regulations, ask what you will be expected to do on a daily/weekly basis. You should be paid; at least enough to cover the costs of your transport and lunch) l Important Note Request to meet with your supervisor/mentor weekly even if it is for 20 minutes. Ask to be involved in projects. (To

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Competitions: 'THE GARDEN OF PLANTS'

Bustler

PHASE 1- IDEA The designers are asked to illustrate their projectual idea for a garden in the form they prefer through a synthetic dossier that describes a concept, adding a title and a short explanatory text with reference images and evocative sketches capable of conveying a botanical vision and idea.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

In 2018, Ingrid van der Heijden’s firm CIVIC Architects was shortlisted for an A+Award in the Transportation-Infrastructure category. We now transport that method of working — we start each project by immersing ourselves in understanding the physical material (and immaterial) culture of a place. Gabriela Etchegaray. Lora Teagarden.