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Creative benches pop up in the city for the London Festival of Architecture
The London Festival of Architecture reveals five new public benches in London designed by young architects and designers to encourage creativity, conversation and contemplation
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Ebb and flow: Chicago Riverwalk to transform the city's urban experience
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Melbourne's MPavilion reflects upon its contribution to urban health
The MPavilion – an annual temporary architectural pavilion commissioned by the Naomi Milgrom Foundation – has launched a new book, featuring essays by participating architects including Amanda Levete, Bijoy Jain and Rem Koolhaas
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Keeping fit: the architecture of health and wellbeing
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Ikea research lab ponders the future of the ideal city
Space10 – Ikea's research and design lab in Copenhagen – has teamed up with publisher Gestalten to create a book that explores a better urban environment for humanity's future
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Imagination meets urban planning at Detroit Design 139
The aim of Detroit Design 139 is to start a collective conversation about Detroit's urban transformation, and it defines ten core design principles for guidance. Innovative projects at this year's exhibition taking place at four locations across the city include a laundromat/coffee shop, an adaptive re-use project at a former car wash detergent factory and a data portal increasing public accessibility to information about land
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Limbo Accra nurtures discussion around urban space in Africa and beyond
We hone in on the work of Limbo Accra, a pioneering, spatial design studio founded in Ghana that encourages a new wave of creative collaboration and co-production in Africa and its diaspora
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Landmark renovation projects and collective regeneration in Rotterdam
While Rotterdam is known for radical architecture and forward-thinking city planning, architects are finding ways to celebrate the city’s history too. Several landmark renovation projects have launched this year, and there’s an ever-growing interest in collective regeneration of city’s 20th century residential fabric led by a new generation of ambitious emerging architects
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High line: Barcelona’s elevated public space brings a bucolic bent to the cityscape
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‘Reinventing Cities’ sustainability competition announces winners
A wave of architectural projects – set to transform urban centres around the world – get the go-ahead in Oslo
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The art of reinvention: how cities and architects unite to combat climate change
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Architect Dayong Sun designs Mini Living's fourth urban cabin in Beijing
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Seoul architecture and urbanism biennale calls out for collective city-making
Set across five locations in Seoul, Collective City is a platform for discussion about how architecture, city and governance can work together to create more humane cities. Projects by the likes of Atelier Bow-wow, amid.cero9 and Forensic Architecture take a pro-active and research-led approach to new urban solutions.
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Outdoor boxing gym in Lisbon performs as urban acupuncture
As part of the Lisbon Triennale 2019, Mexican architecture studio Diseño Espacial, led by Carlos Ortega Arámburo and Daniel de León Languré, has worked with an outer city community to design and build an outdoor boxing gym to promote community health and happiness
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Jas Bhalla Architects wins design competition for diverse housing in London
London based Jas Bhalla Architects has won a design competition launched to find housing solutions that go beyond minimum requirements to provide healthy, generous and innovative homes for the diverse Croydon community of London
