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Architects’ Guide: Short and Long Term Design Strategies for Flood Defense and Urban Resilience

Architizer

Fostering Resilience Through City Initiatives and Guiding Principles Boston Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines and Zoning Overlay District by Utile, Inc. Boston, Massachusetts, United States. The barrier’s eastern section stands 8.60 meters above sea level, while the western part reaches 8.90

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Pocket Ecologies

Landscape Architecture Magazine

designs a place for people, bikes, and plants in Boston’s Charlestown neighborhood. Traveling into Boston on the elevated section of Interstate 93, a small pop of green is visible among the swath of industry in Charlestown’s Hood Park. The morphing idea came from looking at these forms in section and plan view,” Kennen says.

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The College Hill Study

Architecture Here and There

After mentioning a number of these instances, the section cites “basic statistics” that point to “some degree of housing blight. Demolished area at lower left was Boston’s West End, demolished in the late 1940s to make way for high-rise (“If You Lived Here You’d Be Home By Now”) apartments. Boston Globe).

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sofa.com presents its AW23 collection

Hotel Designs

Image credit: sofa.com Boston is introduced as the urban hero of the collection, available as various sized sofa, chaise, armchair and footstool. sofa.com is one of our Recommended Suppliers and regularly features in our Supplier News section of the website.

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Cho Thompson unearths Boston building's history to inform office interiors

Deezen

US studio Atelier Cho Thompson has redesigned the shared spaces for an office building in Boston , borrowing shapes and materials from its history for new interior elements. The team uncovered original terrazzo floors in some areas and worked with experts to restore any sections that were damaged.

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Massachusetts co-living building by French 2D is model for "alternative American housing"

Deezen

Described as "a typology-challenging" project, the Bay State Cohousing complex is located in Malden, a suburb in the Boston area. Bay State Cohousing is in Massachusetts It was designed by French 2D , a Boston studio led by sisters Jenny and Anda French.

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Bay State Commons Cohousing by French 2D

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Found after years of searching, the site is steps away from both a Boston subway stop and a thriving and diverse downtown. To allow for visual transparency across the community, the designers eliminated double loaded corridors, instead inventing arrangements in plan and section not typical of multi-family housing. Source by French 2D.