Architecture
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Resilience to the impacts of climate change and other forms of natural disaster will require new levels of safety in the built environment.
Two towers, one reaching 1,100 feet and the other 850 feet, will take their place in the Chicago skyline.
The Architect's Newspaper
The Shimao Shenzhen-Hong Kong International Centre will be more than half a kilometer high when it's complete.
Dezeen
Despite its immeasurable geographic and cultural distinctiveness, there is perhaps no American city that has embraced Modernist city planning as fully as Honolulu has.
Common Edge Collaborative
Aerial photos show just how completely some areas of the city were transformed before the building typology was eliminated earlier this week.
The Denver Post
“Why are lighting designers and experts nearly unified in their belief that outdoor lighting in past years has been excessive?”
Metropolis Magazine
In Australia, a new study will determine the best ways to make high-density developments healthy places to live.
Diabetes.co.uk
Pittsburgh is betting on its own version of New York City's famed elevated park, based on a 500-foot-long raised roadway connecting two warehouses.
The Architect's Newspaper
Cities across America have a housing crisis on their hands—should they be talking more about trailer parks?
CityLab
Battles for inclusion and exclusion in the life of the city more often end in stand-offs than in skirmishes.
Urban Omnibus
Kate Wagner argues that moral arguments about what kind of architecture is fitting, can stand in the way of good planning.
Common Edge
The Brutalist design by a famed landscape architect will be preserved, but not without better visibility and improved lighting.
The Architect's Newspaper
As Sen. Wiener has announced new amendments to the controversial land use, transit-oriented development, and real estate bill, The Planning Report turns to three experts to unpack the legislation's consequences.
The Planning Report
Mariana Ordóñez Grajales and Onnis Luque are fighting to preserve their country's vernacular architecture.
The Architectural League of New York
Voting is open until April 13.
Illinois Top 200
The architects behind “Stalled!” see gender as one of many variables and identities to consider in designing inclusive environments.
Urban Omnibus
Designing comfort stations to accommodate more than 60 million annual New York State Parks visitors — representing many different genders, backgrounds, and accessibility needs — is no simple task.
Urban Omnibus
An inexpensive architectural style is deemed unfit for a town looking to preserve its history—and become a more sophisticated city.
The Jersey Journal
Calling attention to progress in the Bay Area, two leaders at employee- and women-owned firms argue that more female leadership will help projects better serve the entire population.
The Mercury News
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There is plenty of evidence for modular construction as a key component of a green economy.
