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The Resilient Construction Imperative in the Face of Climate Change

Santa Cruz Architect

To enhance durability, resilient construction incorporates innovative materials and technologies that can withstand extreme conditions. Planning and zoning regulations need to be updated to account for changing climate conditions, ensuring that new developments are located in areas less prone to flooding, wildfires, or other hazards.

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6 Ways Residential Architecture Can Impact Your Health

Architizer

Morning sunlight exposure for example, helps regulate our circadian rhythms and directly influences our mental and physical health. Living walls for example, serve multiple functions such as air purification, humidity regulation and noise reduction.

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Competitions: Tub?dzin Design Awards

Bustler

For this reason, the 4th edition of the TDA competition is guided by three hashtags: #life - Technological and urban developments and a changing climate continually present us with challenges that we want to face up to. life #culture #human Regulations: [link]. SHOW US THE UNLIMITED POSSIBILITIES OF DESIGN!

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Eurasian Prize 2021 competition news

e-architect

Discussions will take place in several directions: a city as a cultural landscape, a city and a healthy environment, a city of equal opportunities, a city of heritage, a city as a technology, a city as a design product, a city in motion and new urban mobility. – Urban Planning System. – Urban Environment.

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Competitions: 2022 Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden Cartoon Vegetables Characters Design Competition

Bustler

In order to enrich the publicity of Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden’s image as well as to raise Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden’s popularity and influence, 2022 Jiaxing Rainbow Vegetable Garden Cartoon Vegetables Characters Design Competition is held by Jiaxing Economic & Technological Development Zone Garden Municipal Construction Co.,

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49 Sustainability Organizations For Architects Around the World

Architizer

The Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES) is a sustainability-focused framework that ushers landscape architects, engineers and others toward practices that protect ecosystems, including climate regulation, carbon storage and flood mitigation. North America.

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Manchester School of Architecture presents 13 architecture student projects

Deezen

The &rchitecture course explores how professional and personal behaviour can enable urban development and construction to be more inclusive, respond to diverse economic models, protect and produce public commons, and make sustainable use of materials and labour. Making our cities more inclusive has never been more urgent.