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Trump wall prototypes pop up near US-Mexico border

October 24, 2017 Dan Howarth 0

Portions of eight proposed designs for the wall that President Donald Trump wants to construct along the US-Mexico border are to be tested over the coming months. The prototypes, all measuring 30 feet (9.1 metres) tall, have been constructed at a site close to the existing border fence south of San Diego, California. Starting next

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London’s Welbeck Street car park could be saved with alternative design by JAA

October 23, 2017 Ali Morris 0

Architecture firm JAA has developed a proposal that would see a celebrated brutalist-era car park in London preserved – rather than demolished to build a new hotel. The speculative scheme is being offered as an alternative to Westminister Council’s plans to demolish Welbeck Street car park, to make way for a hotel designed by Eric

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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to create high-tech “future city” on Toronto waterfront

October 19, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Google’s parent company Alphabet has revealed plans to build a new district along the eastern waterfront of Toronto, which will use cutting-edge technology to pioneer a model for future urban developments. Unveiled earlier this week, Sidewalk Toronto is the brainchild of Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs. The company responded to an open call from Waterfront Toronto, which was seeking a partner to contribute

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Alphabet’s Sidewalk Labs to create high-tech “future city” on Toronto waterfront

October 19, 2017 Eleanor Gibson 0

Google’s parent company Alphabet has revealed plans to build a new district along the eastern waterfront of Toronto, which will use cutting-edge technology to pioneer a model for future urban developments. Unveiled earlier this week, Sidewalk Toronto is the brainchild of Alphabet subsidiary Sidewalk Labs. The company responded to an open call from Waterfront Toronto, which was seeking a partner to contribute

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Exhibition Road accident shows it’s “time to review shared space”, says Labour MP Emma Dent Coad

October 9, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

“Shared space” streets have been called into question after a taxi ploughed into museum-goers on Exhibition Road, a broad boulevard shared by pedestrians and vehicles in London’s South Kensington. The driver of a Toyota Prius veered into a crowd of visitors in South Kensington’s semi-pedestrianised road on Saturday 7 October, injuring 11 people. Nine of the

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Richard Meier’s Cittadella Bridge separates traffic and pedestrians as they cross an Italian river

October 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

American architect Richard Meier has completed an arching single-span bridge across a river in the Italian city of Alessandria, which provides lanes for traffic and pedestrians separated by a central void. The 185-metre-long Cittadella Bridge connecting the city in northwest Italy with the 18th-century citadel on the opposite bank of the Tanaro River is the

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Richard Meier’s Cittadella Bridge separates traffic and pedestrians as they cross an Italian river

October 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

American architect Richard Meier has completed an arching single-span bridge across a river in the Italian city of Alessandria, which provides lanes for traffic and pedestrians separated by a central void. The 185-metre-long Cittadella Bridge connecting the city in northwest Italy with the 18th-century citadel on the opposite bank of the Tanaro River is the

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Richard Meier’s Cittadella Bridge separates traffic and pedestrians as they cross an Italian river

October 5, 2017 Alyn Griffiths 0

American architect Richard Meier has completed an arching single-span bridge across a river in the Italian city of Alessandria, which provides lanes for traffic and pedestrians separated by a central void. The 185-metre-long Cittadella Bridge connecting the city in northwest Italy with the 18th-century citadel on the opposite bank of the Tanaro River is the

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Winning design chosen for Norwegian government headquarters following 2011 terrorist attack

October 3, 2017 India Block 0

Haptic and Nordic Office of Architecture have won the competition to redesign the Norwegian government headquarters after it was damaged during a fatal terrorist attack six years ago. The winning proposal called Adapt was developed by Nordic Office of Architecture and Haptic under the same Team Urbis. The architects are working with engineering firm Ramboll, landscape studios SLA and Bjørbekk & Lindheim, and consultants Asplan Viak, COWI, Aas-Jacobsen, Per Rasmussen,

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Bjarke Ingels proposes Mars simulation city for Dubai in race for space colonisation

September 28, 2017 Jessica Mairs 0

Danish architect Bjarke Ingels has revealed designs for the Mars Science City, which will operate as a space simulation campus near Dubai where scientists will work on “humanity’s march into space”. Ingels’ plans show four geodesic domes enveloping the Mars Science City, which will cover 17.5 hectares of desert outside Dubai – making it the largest space simulation city

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