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New York, Milan, and Venice Amongst Participants in C40's Reinventing Cities Competition 2024

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Courtesy of c40 | Venice Proposed Site 2024 “Reinventing Cities,” C40’ s renowned global design competition , has just announced its fourth edition. The competition’s main goal is to “transform underutilized sites or buildings into beacons of sustainability and resilience and act as a showcase for future zero-carbon urban developments.

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UT Austin team wins the 2022 ULI Gerald Hines Student Competition with an urban development plan for Oakland

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Named after the longtime ULI leader, the competition presents graduate students with an interest in land use to create a hypothetical development plan for a real city in North America. The other three finalists received $10,000 each.

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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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Creating Harmony with the Place: In Conversation with Kengo Kuma

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The 3 rd edition of Shaping the City , a forum on sustainable urban development, took place in Venice between November 24-25, following successful events in Chicago and New Orleans. The event, hosted at Palazzo Michiel del Brusà in Cannaregio, brings together global urban planners, architects, academics, and politicians.

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Get Lectured: University of Hong Kong, Spring '24

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He will be followed on Tuesday, February 23, by a lecture from Bas Smets on microclimates and urban development. March will continue with the lecture 'Cities as Sites of a D. Harvard GSD professor Mark Lee follows Smets on February 29, preceding artist and television producer Christopher Roth on March 14.

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News: UT Austin team wins the 2022 ULI Gerald Hines Student Competition with an urban development plan for Oakland

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Named after the longtime ULI leader, the competition presents graduate students with an interest in land use to create a hypothetical development plan for a real city in North America. The other three finalists received $10,000 each.

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Shanghai West Bund AI Tower & Plaza by NIKKEN SEKKEI LTD

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Nikken Sekkei was selected in an international design competition in 2009 to lead a new urban development on the site of the former local Longhua Airport. In all, the firm has been involved in local area urban and architectural design for more than a decade.