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7 Ways Landscape Architects Broke New Ground in 2022

Architizer

Too often, urbanization is undertaken at the expense of the natural environment rather than in support of it. When architects respond thoughtfully to a site’s native ecology, development can elevate nature and shape meaningful, enduring spaces that enrich the planet and the lives of its population.

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Ten architecture projects by students at the University of Toronto

Deezen

It is located within the Free Trade Zone, an urban periphery littered with warehouses and corporate campuses – in a never-ending pursuit for quantity and efficiency. Combining culture with ecological restoration, this is an accessible green space and a site of active memory and contemplation for those who have lost their loved ones."

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6 Ways Residential Architecture Can Impact Your Health

Architizer

The Biophilic Stress Reduction Theory suggests that exposure to natural elements restores mental and physiological balance, with studies supporting the integration of indoor biophilic elements like plants, living walls and natural materials for bringing nature’s benefits indoors.

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ReefLine Sculpture Park, Miami Beach

e-architect

The living breakwater is the connective tissue for the overall masterplan and will be punctuated by a series of site-specific installations. Titled Concrete Coral, the site-specific installation will reframe cars and trucks—a symbol of the emissions that endanger our planet—as new vehicles for environmental change.

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The Chesapeake Bay - A Complex Eco-System Explained

Community Architect

Increasing floods graph (NOAA) Add culture and urban development. In order to restore the productivity of both the land and water, it is necessary to increase the wetness of the land by redesigning its capacity for denitrification. A decisive battle in the Revolutionary War was fought here.

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Nine architecture, preservation and development projects by students at Tulane University

Deezen

Occupying the Amphibious Edge is a strategy for land use zoning, which promotes collective stewardship of the coastal zone and its infrastructure through conservation-led land acquisition. Its implementation is tested in New Iberia, Louisiana, the parish seat of Iberia Parish and home to roughly 30,000 people.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Only Domino Sugar's processing factory and dock remained active within site of the Inner Harbor. By contrast, the neighboring retail free McKeldin plaza, isolated by traffic as it was, had become Baltimore's free speech zone and ground zero for the Occupy Wall Street movement. Some had seen decline coming.

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