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How To Deliver Urban Nature-Based Solutions

As cities continue to grow and face numerous challenges, promoting sustainability and creating livable urban environments are becoming more crucial than ever. One effective way to achieve these goals is through urban nature-based solutions. Urban nature-based solutions involve integrating nature into urban settings, including green infrastructure, urban forests, parks, and gardens. By incorporating nature into city planning and development, it is possible to improve the quality of life for urban […]

todayJuly 14, 2023

David Baker Architects San Francisco

Architecture

David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction

David Baker Architects accelerates housing for homeless in San Francisco with modular construction Bay Area studio David Baker Architects has completed 145 units of social housing using modular construction and a weathering steel facade in San Francisco, California. The 63,000-square foot (5,850 metre) project – called Tahanan, the Tagalog word for "coming home" – was completed in November 2021 through a financing prototype that aimed to accelerate the timeline and […]

todayDecember 28, 2022

Former Adelaide gasworks to become inner-city 'village'

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Former Adelaide gasworks to become inner-city ‘village’

Former Adelaide gasworks to become inner-city 'village' The former Brompton Gasworks in Adelaide’s inner-west is set to be redeveloped into a new “village”, with the adaptive reuse of the old gasworks structures. Melbourne and Adelaide-based practice Forum is the architect and urban design consultant leading the project, which will create a “vibrant, inner-city destination that mixes the past with the future, blending history, sustainability and community,” said Forum director Ed […]

todayDecember 19, 2022

Paz Architectura

Architecture

Paz Architectura creates a stacked structure meant to reflect “basic concepts of time”

Paz Arquitectura created a compact mixed-use building in the middle of Guatemala's capital city with "strict geometry interlocked with constant movement". The 115,200-square foot (10,700-square metre) building known as AEME was completed in 2021. AEME is a mixed-use building "AEME tries to reflect the basic concepts of time," said studio founder Alejandro Paz. "Strict geometry interlocked with constant movement softens its rigorous formal shape, as time and nature do on […]

todayDecember 15, 2022

Extension to Central Sydney tower approved

Architecture

Extension to Central Sydney tower approved

The City of Sydney has approved a development application for a podium extension of an existing office tower in Sydney’s CBD after a proposal was submitted for an addition designed by FJMT. The vision for the existing modernist tower – fronting Elizabeth, Park and Castlereagh streets in the city centre and opposite Hyde Park – is to turn it into an updated mixed-use building with more activated street engagement. The […]

todayDecember 15, 2022

National Gallery of Australia celebrates 40th anniversary with new book

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National Gallery of Australia celebrates 40th anniversary with new book

The National Gallery of Australia is launching a book, celebrating one of the nation’s “most remarkable buildings”. Published in the year of the NGAs 40th anniversary, Vision: Art, Architecture and the National Gallery of Australia is an examination of the gallery building, which is a “bold combination of the sculptural and the functional”. Designed by architect Col Madigan of Edwards Madigan Torzillo and Briggs, the NGA was completed in 1981 […]

todayDecember 15, 2022

remedy place new york

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Remedy Place in Manhattan is designed to “bring back hospitality into healthcare”

Sculptural decor, soft furniture and warm tones feature in this wellness centre in New York City, created by Remedy Places' in-house team as an antidote to traditional medical facilities. Remedy Place is a membership-based health and wellness club situated within a 7,200-square-foot space in the Flatiron District of Manhattan. Remedy Place is a members wellness club in Manhattan "Our goal with every club is to bring back hospitality into healthcare […]

todayDecember 14, 2022

san marino declaration Hippocrates for architects

Architecture

Why the San Marino Declaration is the Hippocratic Oath for architects

Why the San Marino Declaration is the Hippocratic Oath for architects Norman Foster launched the San Marino Declaration on 3rd October 2022 at the 83rd session of the UNECE Committee on Urban Development, Housing and Land Management.The UN has strongly urged architects, city shapers, and engineers to put these sustainability principles into action.Dezeen’s Tom Ravenscroft wrote that the San Marino Declaration is a Hippocratic oath for architects.Jackie De Burca, of […]

todayOctober 18, 2022

wendy-bishop Architype Constructive Voices Radio

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Wendy Bishop from Architype

Wendy Bishop from Architype talks to Pete the Builder. Wendy Bishop is an associate of Architype and Passivhaus designer. She was a keynote speaker at the event. Her talk was entitled Retrofitting a historic building: CISL’s Entopia Building. This work on the Entopia Building illustrates the process of extending the life and enhancing the value of an ordinary office building through a refurbishment promoting ambitious and measured energy, carbon, and […]

todayJune 18, 2022

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