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Qatar Plans To Accommodate 2022 World Cup Soccer Fans In Floating Hotels
In response to the mounting criticism of Qatar’s ability to host the 2022 World Cup, the “tiny Gulf Arab state” is considering developing floating hotels, luxury villas and a water park off the coast...
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Spanish Architects Rail Against Proposal That Would Make Them Obsolete
As if architects in Spain weren’t struggling enough – what with the Crisis closing half the country’s studios and putting over 25% of Spanish architects out of work - a new law could now render Spanish...
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Architecture Students Design A School For Autistic Children On An Abandoned...
Designed by architecture students, Ian M. Ellis and Frances Peterson, their proposal for the North Brother Island School for Autistic Children in New York City aims to provide a necessary resource for...
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Zaha Hadid Designed A 'Revolutionary' Pair Of High Heels
Zaha Hadid is no stranger to the marriage of architecture and fashion. She’s designed runways for Chanel, shoes for Lacoste, and was even named Woman of the Year by Glamour Magazine in 2012. On her...
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Most US Architects Are Old, White, And Male
Figures released last month by the National Endowment for the Arts offer telling insight into the architecture profession across the US, with a helpful breakdown of the representation of various...
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Why Modernism Is The Worst Thing That Ever Happened To Architecture
Nikos Salingaros is unafraid of a controversial statement. A professor of Mathematics and Urban theory, he has been using his scientific approach to study architecture and urban environments for years,...
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The 6 Most Impressive New Buildings In Great Britain
Out of 52 exemplars of UK architecture, RIBA has chosen the six buildings that will compete for this year's prestigious Sterling prize.RIBA awards its annual Sterling Prize to the building that has...
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This Electric Car-Charging Station Is A Work Of Art
Synthesis Design + Architecture (SDA), the forward-thinking Los Angeles-based architecture firm led by architect and USC professor Alvin Huang has recently won an international competition to design a...
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What Is The Best Planned City In The World?
This discussion on Quora, entitled “which is the most well planned city in the world?” certainly got us thinking; not only because of the interesting and diverse answers to the question, but also...
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Is New York City Landmarking Too Many Buildings?
A recent study by the Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY) concluded that by preserving 27.7% of buildings in Manhattan, “the city is landmarking away its economic future.” REBNY is challenging the...
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The Rise Of Cycling Could Change How Cities Are Built
The 2010 launch of the “Boris Bike” – London’s cycle hire scheme, named after mayor Boris Johnson – was the clearest indication to date that cycling was no longer just for a minority of fanatics but a...
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It's Time To Rebuild Detroit As A City For Urban Living
There is an intimate connection between people, power, poverty and place and there is no better city in the world to see this than Detroit. With the impending bankruptcy we cannot lose sight of the...
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We're On The Brink Of A Fourth Era In Architecture
When New York City architect Curtis B. Wayne first started talking about “The Fourth Architecture,” it was clear he was not doing so to make friends. You do not write manifestos to make friends. You...
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How Architects Can Fix America's Terrible Prisons
We’ve recently covered the topic of prison design on a number of occasions – more specifically the work of Architects, Designers and Planners for Social Responsibility, led by Raphael Sperry. ADPSR is...
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Supertall Skyscraper Developers Are Inflating Height With Tons Of Unusable Space
Ever expanding population growth coupled with the continuous development of urban centres mean that buildings, in general, will continue to get taller.With the topping out of One World Trade Centre in...
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An Architecture Lover's Guide To Tel Aviv
This ArchDaily Architecture City Guide is dedicated to the vibrant city of Tel Aviv, originally established as a garden-city on the sandy shores of the Mediterranean in 1909. Although widely known as...
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Why Architects Should Design With Cyclists In Mind
If Henry Ford were reincarnated as a bike maker, Le Corbusier as an architect of buildings and cities for bikes, and Robert Moses as their bike-loving ally in government, today’s bike plans would be...
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Here's The Plan To Move An Entire Swedish Town Over Two Miles
Everyone is familiar with the stresses of moving to a new house, but the residents of Kiruna, a small town of 18,000 in Sweden, face a more daunting task: moving their entire city. For more than 100...
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Yale Architecture Students Built A Modern Family Home In New Haven
Most architects have to wait years to see their first project realized – but if you’re an architecture student at Yale University, you may just have to get on campus.The Jim Vlock Project, established...
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These Cool Diagrams Map Out All Of The Meth Labs On 'Breaking Bad'
The Golden Age of Television has made way for shows that run counter to the traditional, expected narrative model. In the course of its five-year run, Breaking Bad has effectively transformed its...
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