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A Paper Monument for The Paperless

Undocumented people get a public face
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A Paper Monument for The Paperless

Undocumented people get a public face
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Notre Dame and Architecture Competition

The Notre Dame restoration and the problem with staging a competition in the first place
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Notre Dame and Architecture Competition

The Notre Dame restoration and the problem with staging a competition in the first place
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Potemkin’s Heirs

Interview with the photographer Gregor Sailer about the peculiar magic of modern-day Potemkin villages
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Potemkin’s Heirs

Interview with the photographer Gregor Sailer about the peculiar magic of modern-day Potemkin villages
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Athens

Third stop of the New Silk Road: Athens
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Athens

Third stop of the New Silk Road: Athens
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“We are halfway there“

Interview with JEJU.studio about their school project in Ulyankulu, Tanzania
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“We are halfway there“

Interview with JEJU.studio about their school project in Ulyankulu, Tanzania
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Only the Best for Horse and Rider

Figueras Polo Stables: The poetic horizontality of the local flatlands seems to be emulated by every aspect of the plan
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Only the Best for Horse and Rider

Figueras Polo Stables: The poetic horizontality of the local flatlands seems to be emulated by every aspect of the plan
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Djibouti City

Second stop of the New Silk Road: the East African city-state of Djibouti
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Djibouti City

Second stop of the New Silk Road: the East African city-state of Djibouti
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Shotgun Houses of New Orleans

LaToya Cantrell fights the consequences of Hurricane Katrina – Part 5
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Shotgun Houses of New Orleans

LaToya Cantrell fights the consequences of Hurricane Katrina – Part 5
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Liege’s Abandoned Sacred Heart

About the superficial nature of future-focused urban development.
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Liege’s Abandoned Sacred Heart

About the superficial nature of future-focused urban development.
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An Office for Wellbeing

Walt Disney Company Office, Buenos Aires: The project benefits from an open area unusually large for office uses
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An Office for Wellbeing

Walt Disney Company Office, Buenos Aires: The project benefits from an open area unusually large for office uses
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Blighted Recovery: The Road Home Program

LaToya Cantrell fights the consequences of Hurricane Katrina – Part 3
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Blighted Recovery: The Road Home Program

LaToya Cantrell fights the consequences of Hurricane Katrina – Part 3
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Xi’an

First stop of the New Silk Road: the Chinese city of Xi’an
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Cities on the New Silk Road: Xi’an

First stop of the New Silk Road: the Chinese city of Xi’an
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South London’s Super-Diverse Streets

As a project from LSE Cities has shown, the value of “super-diverse streets” is often wilfully overlooked by the municipal authorities tasked with planning their future.

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The Area between Fact and Fiction

With MONUMENTS, Russian artist Tkachenko shows that an artistic interaction with historical heritage is one way of becoming witness to historic events.

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Brazilian urban policy by Bolsonaro

Brazil has a new president-elect, the far-right politician Jair Bolsonaro. How will urban policy be affected?

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New platform, new view on architecture

Normally, architects and architecture students design and realize concepts and buildings. But can architects do a TV-show? That’s new – and “Station.plus” dares this experiment.

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Reaping what we sow

The community garden ‘Hort de la Font Trobada’ in Barcelona not only offers food production and ecology, but also has a social and educational focus.

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Barrels for London

From June 18 on, the sculpture “The Mastaba” by Christo will be visitable in London’s Hyde Park. It’s the first large-size installation by the Bulgarian-born artist in Great Britain.

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Creating a Moscow Agora

Khokhlovka Square by Strelka KB and the studio Djao-Rakitine is a popular public space, open and accessible to everyone – and the first amphitheater in Moscow.

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Freespace for All Senses

The German landscape architecture office “Planergruppe Oberhausen” in cooperation with B.A.S. Kopperschmidt & Moczalla realized the innovative open space project “Landscape Therapeutic Park” in the forests of the German city of Brilon.

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Landscapes to the Max

Built in a socially stratified area, the park La Mexicana is a manifesto of the dynamic and integrated approach proposed by the CDMX Resilience Office.

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Florida gets its very own ‘Central Park’

In 2017 the global design firm Sasaki was hired by the Bonnet Springs Park Board to design a “central park” for the City of Lakeland. The outcome is an exciting design and, most of all, a big promise.

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Between Stability and Instability

An unusual work of public art has recently been presented in Berlin: the installation “Drehmoment” (“torque”) by Berlin artist group realities:united.

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Olympic Park in Buenos Aires

As part of a large-scale urban and social conversion program in the south of the city, the Olympic Parc became a prominent location for the games.

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Urban History of Amsterdam’s RoXY Nightclub

Open from 1987-1999, Amsterdam’s RoXY nightclub emerged at the genesis of rave culture, enjoying success during a crucial turning point in the socio-economic organisation of the inner city.

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USA Today’s “The City” podcast

Over a series of 10 episodes, USA Today’s “The City” podcast unpacks the complex web of racial and class injustices which have ensured that waste disposal in America has always tended to impact more on people of colour.

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The Guru in Urbanism

The lecture by Jan Gehl at the Amsterdam Public Library on March 15 was part of public series jointly organized by the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture and the Amsterdam Centre for Architecture (ARCAM).

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Gentrification and the AIDS epidemic

Sarah Schulman’s book The Gentrification of the Mind explores the wide reaching impact of the AIDS epidemic on New York and American culture more generally

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Plant Landscape in the City

For the eighth time, the Arketips Association and the district council of the north Italian City of Bergamo organized the international event i maestri del paesaggio – Masters of Landscape. This year’s event dealt with the very basis of each and every landscape: plants.

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This land is our land

The art works of Cuban artist Ana Mendieta are about identity, home and nature. From 20 April to 22 July 2018, the Gropius Building in Berlin is showing a selection of her works.

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Performative Landscapes

This year’s slogan of the International Landscape Biennial, “Performative Landscapes”, emphasizes the need to create landscapes which face today’s threats, playing ecological, social and political roles at the same time. The event, the 10th in a row, was organized by the Catalan Architects Association and the UPC University and took place in Barcelona from 25th to 29th September.

Urban Future Global Conference 2019

May 22 to 24 2019
Oslo, Norway
www.urban-future.org
International Architecture Master Class

September 15 to 29, 2019
Sydney, Australia
www.ozetecture.org

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