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New York City begins test pilot for parkbound modular public restrooms

Archinect

Nearly four years after floating the possibility, the city Department of Parks and Recreation is preparing for a trial run of prefabricated, kiosk-like bathrooms that cost a fraction of the multimillion-dollar price tag for building traditional restrooms.

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Park Hill Phase 2 named best project as Dezeen Awards sustainability winners revealed

Deezen

Park Hill Phase 2 has won Dezeen Awards 2023 sustainable project of the year following the announcement of all six sustainability category winners, which were revealed at this evening's ceremony. The judges chose the brutalist building in Sheffield for setting "an important precedent for how the UK should deal with its ageing housing stock."

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Cobe unveils The Opera Park on island in Copenhagen's harbour

Deezen

Danish studio Cobe has completed The Opera Park, a "much-needed green oasis" in Copenhagen 's inner harbour that features six gardens and a flower-shaped greenhouse. Described by Cobe as a "lush, green park island", the 21,500-square-metre landscape occupies a green lawn on a former industrial site adjacent to The Royal Danish Opera.

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A Victorian ‘office mansion’ by Casa Loma’s architect comes to market in Toronto

The Spaces

When it came to design, architect Edward James Lennox was something of a magpie, slapping together Gothic, Romantic Revival, Queen Anne and Edwardian features to create his unique brand of buildings, including Toronto’s Old City Hall and outlandish Gilded Era mansion, Casa Loma.

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Dezeen Awards is a "stamp of approval" says past sustainability winner

Deezen

Dezeen Awards is a unique stamp of approval of design excellence that is closely followed by creative professionals in the UK as well as worldwide," PulpaTronics explained. "By Petit Pli , which won wearable design of the year in 2018 , develops clothing that grows and adapts to the body, allowing for a longer product life.

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Dezeen Awards 2023 winners announced at ceremony in London

Deezen

The 39 project category winners were shortlisted for the architecture, interiors, design and sustainability project of the year awards. The six Designers of the Year and the inaugural Bentley Lighthouse Award winner were also announced at the ceremony. The judges said: "This exemplary building manages to do the most with the least.

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Happenings

SW Oregon Architect

City of Eugene administrators first signaled their wish to abandon the former award-winning City Hall back in the 1990s, barely halfway through the building’s too-short existence, before unceremoniously razing it in 2014. The City commissioned a 2016 study of the building to determine its suitability for use as the new city hall.

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