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News: ACSA and Buell Center select 2024 winners of Course Development Prize in Architecture, Climate Change, and Society

Bustler

This proposal is the first of a multi-year, research studio that will explore how earth-based construction (compressed earth block) might be leveraged for sustainable urban development (housing) in the Phoenix metropolitan region. In the research seminar students begin with fieldwork, dialogue, drawing, and mapping.

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Event: FOREST FUTURES

Bustler

A glance at the ungraspable timeline of forest evolution, 350 million years, reveals an alarming fact: a millennium of human activity—a blink of an eye in geological time—has threatened the equilibrium of these life-sustaining ecosystems.

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Game Changer

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Ephemeral drainages will be restored in Larsen Meadow, the former back nine of San Geronimo Golf Course. Danner attributes the demand—for “right-sized courses, not necessarily 18 holes”—to younger players who don’t have the time to play longer courses on 150 acres and who want to play more interesting, environmentally sustainable courses.

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Ravensbourne University London spotlights 12 student architecture projects

Deezen

We challenge our students through live briefs and industry collaboration to design solutions that transform communities with a social and sustainable approach." In addition to the restoration of the old building, new extensions have been added to include a tennis court on existing foundations and half-sunken co-working pods.

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architectureRED

ArchiDiaries

Biju Kuriakose co-founded architectureRED along with Kishore Panikkar, and brings crucial sustainable planning, urban design and international expertise to the firm. He has also been invited as a guest speaker in many architecture and planning conferences and seminars around the country. (“Text as submitted by architect”).

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Refurbishment of Hippodromen theatre in Malmö "equips the building for another century of life"

Deezen

Also facing the street is the former box office, which has been transformed into a studio space to be used for workshops and seminars. Previous projects by Haworth Tompkins include a chainmail-clad pavilion that forms the entrance of London's Punchdrunk theatre and the restoration of the historic Theatre Royal Drury Lane.

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"Design practices must lead the way in rethinking capitalism to save the planet"

Deezen

As peasants regained control of the land (as much as 90 per cent in Germany), they restored a reciprocal relationship with nature, reversing the deforestation, loss of soil fertility and overgrazing that had occurred under feudalism. But they didn't generate a surplus for the elite, so something had to change.

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