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Dubai Mangroves by URB

aasarchitecture

This initiative aims to integrate ecological preservation with urban development, enhancing Dubai’s coastline with a vision of planting more than 100 million mangrove trees over 72 kilometers. The project is currently at the research stage with 6 pilot design studies proposed across selected areas.

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The Future of Architecture: BioDiverCities and Nature-based Solutions (NbS)

Architizer

” This report presents a vision of a nature-positive urban development that addresses climate challenges and ensures that all urban activities have a positive environmental impact by 2030. Architects and landscape architects are instrumental in the practical implementation of NbS in urban environments.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: R

SW Oregon Architect

By preserving its architectural heritage and integrating it into a modern urban development, we would be able to celebrate the Romania Building’s past while embracing the future. With luck, the Romania Building will be fully restored and again be the captivating presence along Franklin Boulevard it once was.

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New Kid on the Block: 6 Ways Architects Are Reinventing the Public Park

Architizer

Amid the frenetic pace of urban development, the public park is a radical thing. Existing topographic features such as the ficus grove have been preserved along the water’s edge, while the restored timber dock evokes the memory of the energetic, working waterfront.

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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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Urban Terrarium: Only Architect-Landscape Architect Collaboration Can Truly Delivery Biodiversity

Architizer

Meanwhile, the situation is also a sharp reminder that any business dealing with the European Union’s single market now needs to monitor its supply chain very carefully, with a new corporate sustainability due diligence directive has now and inbound law across the bloc. There are, of course, exceptions.

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Chengdu Giant Panda Breeding Research Base Expansion Project // Shanghai TIANHUA Urban Planning & Design Co., Ltd.

Architizer

Shanghai TIANHUA Urban Planning & Design Co., Since Chengdu, one of the fastest growing cities in the world, has been facing a huge conflict between wildlife protection and urban development, Panda Base expansion project needs a sustainable framework that generates win-win for ecology and development.

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