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Büro Ole Scheeren Wins Competition to Design New Swirling Headquarters for Tencent in Shenzhen

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The new structure, occupying a 14-hectare site, will become part of a new urban development along Qianhai Bay. © Büro Ole Scheeren Büro Ole Scheeren has won the international competition for the design of Tencent ’s new global headquarters in Shenzhen , China.

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4 new metro stations for line 14 by AZC Atelier Zündel Cristea

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It serves the Clichy-Batignolles urban development zone, the town of Clichy and the town of St Ouen, i.e. an additional 96,000 inhabitants. The 4-station project was built in a dense urban environment. The stations are designed as large volumes crossed by their structures and free of cladding.

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Eugene/Architecture/Alphabet: R

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Located as it was and is at the east end of Franklin Boulevard, the building functioned as a gateway and symbol of the city’s rapidly expanding transportation infrastructure and commercial development upon its opening in 1960. As a development partner, the UO would lease the land to Project^. Redevelopment proposal by Project^.

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ADEPT + Karres en Brands win Garden City 2.0 

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ADEPT + Karres en Brands have been named winners of a highly ambitious 80 ha urban development in Köln Germany inspired by The Garden City. WoodHood shows an alternative approach to the future of urban development, allowing both sustainability and landscape to become primary drivers of urbanism.

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The Bronze Chariots Museum of the Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum in Xi’an by Atelier Diameter

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The ambience of the mausoleum survived from the rapid urban development in modern China, and providentially keeps the landscape structure of mountains and plains as it was before the common era, projecting the ever-lasting charisma of the first emperor who conquered all the states and united China with unbounded confidence.

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Full funding secured for US tallest skyscraper says developer

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Construction may begin in early autumn Matteson said that preparations on the site could begin as early as June. "We The downtown is ripe for urban development. If completed, the skyscraper will rise 1,907 feet (581 metres) in the air, making it the tallest in the United States and the fifth tallest in the world.

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Jordan Weber creates installation that monitors Detroit's air quality

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According to Sidewalk Detroit, the "permanent, site-specific regenerative installation" is a gateway to East Canfield Pavilion Park. It consists of gold-painted aluminium rods shaped to resemble crowns worn by historical queens Ranavalona III of Madagascar and Idia of Benin, interwoven.