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• Taichung Cultural City Center Competition Entry / de Architekten Cie.

  
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  The proposal for the Taichung Cultural City Center by de Architekten Cie. is composed of a well-defined system of voids as the museum and the library are designed as a flexible structure to be able to follow frequent changes in museum and library philosophy. Lifts and escalators are built into both buildings to ...
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• City Cultural Center Comeptition Entry / Williamson Architects

  
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  Australia based Williamson Architects ’ proposal for the City Cultural Center of Taichung , Taiwan aims to create a sculptural beauty that resurrects the romance of the architectural journey through a building. Driven by function, the building’s form is expressed in its own beauty to create not only a landmark ...
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• Balconies bring quality to urban life

  
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    A plant adorned balcony provides outdoor place, access to food  and improves the ambiance of a dense urban environment. T he gardening time of year has arrived once again and Im missing out because, living in a 80 unit mixed-use and transit accessible unit, I dont have private outdoor space for ...
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• Exelon site park design needs revamp 

  
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  &via=&related=DolcePixel"> The city’s design review panel on Thursday rejected design plans for a public park to border the 23-story regional headquarters for Exelon Corp. on the city’s waterfront at Harbor Point. &via=&related=DolcePixel">
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• A call to action: Call on DC City Council to create a Citizens Task Force on the Future of DCs Central Library

  
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  From Robin Diener of the DC Library Renaissance Project : Dear Library Friends and Advocates: As you may know, DC Library Renaissance Project has been calling for a Citizens Task Force on the Future of MLK since the central library debacle of 2006. My local ANC2B passed a resolution for Citizens task Force MLK in ...
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• Dubai’s Sustainable City Will be Powered by 600,000 Square Feet of Solar Cells

  
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  Read the rest of Dubai’s Sustainable City Will be Powered by 600,000 Square Feet of Solar Cells Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: architecture competition , Baharash Architecture , city master plan , dubai , Dubai Architecture , Dubai Sustainable City , green city , Stringa ...
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• London’s 2012 Olympic Village to be Transformed into Affordable Housing Units

  
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  The greenest building is the one that’s already standing, and this week London officials announced that the buildings from the 2012 Olympic Village will be transformed into rental units, and many of them will be reserved for low-income housing. It has just been announced that the Olympic Village in London will be ...
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• Turkish Prime Minister Is Practicing Landscape Architecture Without a License

  
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  I have been under stress watching the recent events taking place in my native Turkey. These events began with peaceful demonstrations on May 29 by environmentally-minded citizens who wanted to preserve one of the last remaining green spaces in Istanbul. They did not want to see a planned demolition and privatization ...
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• Can Ribas / Jaime J. Ferrer Forés

  
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  Architects: Jaime J. Ferrer Forés Location: La Soledat, Palma de Mallorca, Spain Architect In Charge: Jaime J. Ferrer Forés Collaborators: Yolanda Ortega Sanz, María Alemany Perelló, Jaime J. Ferrer Forés, Yolanda Ortega Sanz, Talleres Cortada Area: 287 sqm Year: 2011 Photographs: José Hevia ...
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• Toronto Walking Policy Resources

  
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  A wide range of City of Toronto policies affect walking, but it’s not always easy to know about them or find them. This post provides a convenient list of links to these various policies, so that anyone who is interested can get an overview what the City is doing, or at least says it should be doing, to improve the ...
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• DCs transportation planning process

  
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  Called moveDC , Washington, DC is creating a master transportation plan and the public engagement process for the plan is underway now. There have been some meetings this week (the second stage) including an outdoor session yesterday at Union Station.  See the past blog entry, " Resources for becoming a learned ...
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• Christopher Klimek – Education – Stanford Who’s Who Certified

  
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  Architectural Design Expert From Australia Joins The Ranks Of Stanford Who’s Who NEWCASTLE, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA, June 12, 2013 / Stanford Who’s Who/ — Stanford Who’s Who proudly announces the addition of Christopher Klimek to the ranks of professional individuals as a result of his work in the ...
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• Ensuring that lease restrictions dont encumber a commercial propertys future

  
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  I was disturbed yesterday, when talking with someone about Walmarts foray into DC, to realize that I completely forgot to raise an important issue about how chain retailers put provisions in leases that put restrictions on what kind of tenants can lease the property if and  when the chain store closes or moves to ...
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• The reason why Walmart is committed to a store that is part of a mixed use project at 1st and New Jersey Avenue NW in Washington DC

  
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  Because elsewhere in the building, the company will be housing its Washington, DC-based lobbying operation. They want to show that they are "urban."  Even though only 2 of the 6 DC Walmarts will be in vertical mixed use projects. Because "seeing is believing," Walmart will have the upper hand with elected officials ...
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• Housing in Private Rental Market Competition

  
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• Green Infrastructure Is Becoming Mainstream

  
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  Green infrastructure is now big time, given the head of water for the Environmental Protection Agency (E.P.A.) is now promoting its benefits. At the E.P.A’s Brownfields conference in Atlanta, Nancy Stoner, assistant administrator for water, said she tells people who don’t know what green infrastructure is that ...
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• Prahan Hotel by Techné Architects

  
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  Take a look at renewed Prahan Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. Techné Architects made a design y adding an extension that uses oversized concrete pipes. “The Prahan Hotel is set to commence on the second stage of its transformation. Succeeding the recent interior refurbishment, the planned new works include an ...
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• Densify: Microhousing and Other Trends in Increased Urban Density

  
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• Q: Who do you need for an affordable city? A: Developers.

  
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  Whale Oil ’s irregular correspondent Policy Parrot is worth following on so-called “planning and development issues” in Auckland Council. Just yesterday, he pointed out that the allegedly “permissive” Unitary Auckland Plan is about to become anything but, with the heights and densities “permitted” ...
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• U of T reveals new design for One Spadina Crescent

  
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  Today, the University of Toronto revealed its plans for One Spadina Crescent. The historic property is well known to Torontonians: more than 55,000 people circle the handsome Gothic Revival building on streetcar and car trips through the city. But despite its storied past — the site was built as a theological ...
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