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Tips for Building a Flood-Resilient Architectural Home Design

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Flooding is one of the most significant problems that affect buildings all over the world. Even architectural treasures are often plagued by flooding issues from time to time. For instance, The post Tips for Building a Flood-Resilient Architectural Home Design appeared first on ArchEyes.

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Manhattan island extension could provide homes for 250,000 people

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Rutgers professor Jason Barr has proposed adding 1,760-acres of reclaimed land, named New Mannahatta, to the tip of Manhattan island to provide housing and combat climate change. Barr argues that the extension to Manhattan, which would incorporate Governors Island, would help build resiliency to the threat of rising sea levels.

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6 Ways Residential Architecture Can Impact Your Health

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In an era where wellness takes precedence and indoor living becomes more prevalent, the significance of designing homes that foster healthy living cannot be emphasized enough. Increasingly, researchers and designers alike are recognizing the profound impact that architectural design can have on our physical and mental well-being.

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Casa Adelante, San Francisco, California

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In collaboration with TNDC and MEDA, this building fosters and celebrates an interconnected and vibrant community. Concrete frames subdivide the remainder of the façade, which is further modulated to respond to a residential scale and offer a sense of belonging and home.

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When Weather Becomes a Design Challenge

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When a building floods or is torn apart by a hurricane or consumed by fire, or rendered almost useless by weeks without electric power, it used to be "force major" or "an act of god". The question is now: What can we do to make our buildings, towns, cities and our infrastructure withstand the new type of destructive weather?

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

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Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us?

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

Traces of San Francisco's Ghirardelli Square, Boston's Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market, promoted by a visionary developer, designed by a Harvard Dean of architecture, nearly defeated in a referendum, those are the ingredients that made Baltimore's HarborPlace a model for urban waterfronts around the world nearly half a century ago.

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