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• President Trump has officially decided to pull the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and architects—including the AIA—are ready to fight back.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/aia-trump-paris-accord-withdrawl/ …

  05-11-2019 23:51
  President Trump has officially decided to pull the U.S. from the Paris climate accord and architects—including the AIA—are ready to fight back.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/aia-trump-paris-accord-withdrawl/ …
  
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• A Photographer's Ode to Everyday Soviet Architecture - Atlas Obscura

  05-11-2019 23:50
  
  A Photographer's Ode to Everyday Soviet Architecture  Atlas Obscura
  
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• 8 KPIs That Can Make or Break Your Architecture Firm - Archinect

  05-11-2019 23:49
  
  8 KPIs That Can Make or Break Your Architecture Firm  Archinect
  
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• The residents of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn don't want this sustainable mixed-use tower because it doesn't have enough parking and it's too close to the subway.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/metabolist-tower-rejected-over-parking/ …

  05-11-2019 22:32
  The residents of Sheepshead Bay in Brooklyn don't want this sustainable mixed-use tower because it doesn't have enough parking and it's too close to the subway.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/metabolist-tower-rejected-over-parking/ …
  
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• .@AIANational Calls for U.S. to Reverse Paris Climate Agreement Withdrawal http://bit.ly/2JPYeiz pic.twitter.com/Ym1eyVi6kX

  05-11-2019 22:16
  .@AIANational Calls for U.S. to Reverse Paris Climate Agreement Withdrawal http://bit.ly/2JPYeiz pic.twitter.com/Ym1eyVi6kX
  
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• Brooklyn firm MODU and @ericjforman studio have won the annual @TSqArts Valentine Heart Design competition.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/times-square-heart-design-modu/ …

  05-11-2019 22:08
  Brooklyn firm MODU and @ericjforman studio have won the annual @TSqArts Valentine Heart Design competition.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/times-square-heart-design-modu/ …
  
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• Second Home Hollywood by SelgasCano adds 6,500 plants to former Los Angeles car park

  05-11-2019 22:03
  The pods that Spanish practice SelgasCano has built to form garden studios in Second Home's first US campus resemble a group of huge yellow lily pads from above.
  The Second Home Hollywood campus comprises sixty curvilinear offices with yellow rooftops are built on the site of a former car park, alongside the former Anne Banning Community House, which was completed in the 1960s and renovated for the project.
  "We're trying to be a home for the 21st century creative entrepreneur," Second Home
  
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• Revisiting the 4-day work week in architecture - Archinect

  05-11-2019 21:25
  
  Revisiting the 4-day work week in architecture  Archinect
  
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• Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos unveils sinuous Chablé Sea of Cortez hotel in Mexico

  05-11-2019 21:00
  Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has released plans for a hotel in Baja California Sur with creature-like concrete suites integrated within a sloping desert.
  Luxury resort chain Chablé enlisted the firm to create the resort for a site located north of La Pax, Mexico on the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortéz.
  Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos' design for the Chablé Sea of Cortez comprises a series of pods with concrete roofs built onto the hilly, arid plot. I
  
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• Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos unveils sinuous Chablé Mar de Cortés hotel in Mexico

  05-11-2019 21:00
  Mexican firm Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos has released plans for a hotel in Baja California Sur with creature-like concrete suites integrated within a sloping desert.
  Luxury resort chain Chablé enlisted the firm to create the resort for a site located north of La Pax, Mexico on the Gulf of California, also known as the Sea of Cortés.
  Sordo Madaleno Arquitectos' design for the Chablé Mar de Cortés comprises a series of pods with concrete roofs built onto the hilly,
  
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• Greifswalder Strasse, by Sergei Tchoban http://bit.ly/2PMNsxo pic.twitter.com/zavYw2nBF1

  05-11-2019 21:00
  Greifswalder Strasse, by Sergei Tchoban http://bit.ly/2PMNsxo pic.twitter.com/zavYw2nBF1
  
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• Facebook and Google have become the latest tech giants to pledge billion(s) of dollars to combat California's housing problem.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/facebook-affordable-housing-pledge/ …

  05-11-2019 20:56
  Facebook and Google have become the latest tech giants to pledge billion(s) of dollars to combat California's housing problem.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/facebook-affordable-housing-pledge/ …
  
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• Los Angeles will be the first major U.S. city to test paving its streets with a recycled plastic material.http://bit.ly/36bhaSx 

  05-11-2019 20:05
  Los Angeles will be the first major U.S. city to test paving its streets with a recycled plastic material.http://bit.ly/36bhaSx 
  
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• Patrik Schumacher and Harriet Harriss clash over long-hours culture at Dezeen Day

  05-11-2019 19:21
  Patrik Schumacher defended architecture's long-hours culture at Dezeen Day last week, arguing that protecting students from working too hard could lead to a "socialist kind of world of stagnation".
  Schumacher, the principal of Zaha Hadid Architects, spoke on a panel about design education, claiming that worrying about exploitation of workers could have a "paralysing" effect on companies like his.
  "In my world, talk about protecting students from working too hard, from late-night working in firms
  
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• Pharrell Williams turns to architecture with United Residences in Toronto - Dezeen

  05-11-2019 19:16
  
  Pharrell Williams turns to architecture with United Residences in Toronto  Dezeen
  
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• Pharrell Williams turns to architecture with United Residences in Toronto

  05-11-2019 19:16
  
  Musician and fashion designer Pharrell Williams has turned his hand to architecture, collaborating on the design of a two-tower residential development for Toronto, Canada.Williams was enlisted by Toronto developers Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties to work with architects IBI Group and interior designers U31 on the exterior, interiors and furnishings for the project called Untitled.
  Announced today, it marks the Grammy Award-winning artist's first foray into residential development, fo
  
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• Pharrell Williams designs Untitled residences for Toronto

  05-11-2019 19:16
  Musician and fashion designer Pharrell Williams has designed a two-tower residential development for Toronto, Canada.Williams was enlisted by Toronto developers Reserve Properties and Westdale Properties to work with architects IBI Group and interior designers U31 on the exterior, interiors and furnishings for the project called Untitled.
  Announced today, it marks the Grammy Award-winning artist's first foray into residential development, following other architecture and design endeavours such a
  
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• Interior architecture and design students reimagine spaces for CSU's Early Childhood Center - College of Health and Human Sciences - Source

  05-11-2019 18:58
  
  Interior architecture and design students reimagine spaces for CSU's Early Childhood Center - College of Health and Human Sciences  Source
  
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• Jeff Rankin: Monmouths first modern architecture grew around abandoned brewery - Monmouth Daily Review Atlas

  05-11-2019 18:06
  Jeff Rankin: Monmouths first modern architecture grew around abandoned brewery  Monmouth Daily Review Atlas
  
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• "Buildings must now be about a sustainable, #carbonneutral future because [..] what we do from now on is involved in the life of the planet!” says one of #Australia's most influential #architects, Koichi Takada.http://bit.ly/2qUab0i 

  05-11-2019 18:05
  "Buildings must now be about a sustainable, #carbonneutral future because [..] what we do from now on is involved in the life of the planet!” says one of #Australia's most influential #architects, Koichi Takada.http://bit.ly/2qUab0i 
  
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• Greifswalder Office Building / Tchoban Voss Architektenhttp://dlvr.it/RHgdQL 

  05-11-2019 18:04
  Greifswalder Office Building / Tchoban Voss Architektenhttp://dlvr.it/RHgdQL 
  
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• Western Sydney Airport, by @ZHA_News and @COXArchitecture http://bit.ly/2JIKiqP pic.twitter.com/WKTjgbV56r

  05-11-2019 18:00
  Western Sydney Airport, by @ZHA_News and @COXArchitecture http://bit.ly/2JIKiqP pic.twitter.com/WKTjgbV56r
  
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• As Seattle's 43-year-old Freeway Park readies for approval on the National Register of Historic Places, the Lawrence Halprin-designed Brutalist landscape will undergo a major renovation.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/seattle-freeway-park-national-register/

  05-11-2019 17:18
  As Seattle's 43-year-old Freeway Park readies for approval on the National Register of Historic Places, the Lawrence Halprin-designed Brutalist landscape will undergo a major renovation.https://archpaper.com/2019/11/seattle-freeway-park-national-register/ …
  
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• 111 West 57th Street, most Slender Skyscraper in the World Tops Outhttp://dlvr.it/RHgSnz 

  05-11-2019 17:16
  111 West 57th Street, most Slender Skyscraper in the World Tops Outhttp://dlvr.it/RHgSnz 
  
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• LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, by @PeiCobbFreed http://bit.ly/34pQxrs pic.twitter.com/0AoxuvXbi2

  05-11-2019 17:00
  LMCC’s Arts Center at Governors Island, by @PeiCobbFreed http://bit.ly/34pQxrs pic.twitter.com/0AoxuvXbi2
  
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• Former HUD Sec. Cisneros To Join Texas A&M Architecture 50th Anniversary Celebration - Texas A&M University

  05-11-2019 16:46
  
  Former HUD Sec. Cisneros To Join Texas A&M Architecture 50th Anniversary Celebration  Texas A&M University
  
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• Architects are designing libraries that transform communities. Take a look 2019's most beautifully designed libraries: http://bit.ly/2VmRoF5  #librariestransformpic.twitter.com/FzHfFc09sK

  05-11-2019 16:05
  Architects are designing libraries that transform communities. Take a look 2019's most beautifully designed libraries: http://bit.ly/2VmRoF5 #librariestransformpic.twitter.com/FzHfFc09sK
  
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• Podcast: @TallerKENstudio on Managing Its 'Nomadic' Practice http://bit.ly/2WwSEHf pic.twitter.com/ec2nBBTXpQ

  05-11-2019 16:00
  Podcast: @TallerKENstudio on Managing Its 'Nomadic' Practice http://bit.ly/2WwSEHf pic.twitter.com/ec2nBBTXpQ
  
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• Dallas Architecture Forum Presents 365 Modern Living Reception - Preston Hollow People

  05-11-2019 16:00
  Dallas Architecture Forum Presents 365 Modern Living Reception  Preston Hollow People
  
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• Dallas Architecture Forum Presents 365 Modern Living Reception - Park Cities People

  05-11-2019 16:00
  Dallas Architecture Forum Presents 365 Modern Living Reception  Park Cities People
  
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• Croton-on-Hudson House by Resolution: 4 Architecture - Architectural Record

  05-11-2019 15:30
  
  Croton-on-Hudson House by Resolution: 4 Architecture  Architectural Record
  
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• AIA Cleveland awards honor the best of architecture and design in Northeast Ohio - Crain's Cleveland Business

  05-11-2019 15:30
  
  AIA Cleveland awards honor the best of architecture and design in Northeast Ohio  Crain's Cleveland Business
  
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• The World Around architecture forum to launch in New York next year - Dezeen

  05-11-2019 15:10
  
  The World Around architecture forum to launch in New York next year  Dezeen
  
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• The World Around architecture forum to launch in New York next year

  05-11-2019 15:10
  British curator Beatrice Galilee has launched a new architecture forum that will kick-off as a conference in New York next year, with speakers including Elizabeth Diller and Shohei Shigematsu.Dezeen is media partner for the inaugural edition of The World Around and will be livestreaming the all-day series of talks, set to take place on Saturday 25 January 2020 at the Renzo Piano-designed The Times Center in New York.
  Diller Scofidio + Renfro co-founder Elizabeth Diller and OMA New York's Sh
  
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• More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to #urban areas by 2050. Here are 7 principles for solving sprawl & building smarter communities:http://bit.ly/2JtqKa8 

  05-11-2019 15:05
  More than half of the world's population already lives in cities, and another 2.5 billion people are projected to move to #urban areas by 2050. Here are 7 principles for solving sprawl & building smarter communities:http://bit.ly/2JtqKa8 
  
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• Architecture and Planning celebrates 50 years - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff - University at Buffalo Reporter

  05-11-2019 14:30
  Architecture and Planning celebrates 50 years - UB Now: News and views for UB faculty and staff  University at Buffalo Reporter
  
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• In a small town of just 10,000 people stands the world's tallest timber structure, which represents the many opportunities that exist in a country that's already a pioneer in zero- and positive-energy buildings. (via @CityLab)http://bit.ly/32h5ryK 

  05-11-2019 14:05
  In a small town of just 10,000 people stands the world's tallest timber structure, which represents the many opportunities that exist in a country that's already a pioneer in zero- and positive-energy buildings. (via @CityLab)http://bit.ly/32h5ryK 
  
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• Centre Pompidou: high-tech architecture's inside-out landmark - Dezeen

  05-11-2019 13:30
  
  Centre Pompidou: high-tech architecture's inside-out landmark  Dezeen
  
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• Centre Pompidou: high-tech architecture's inside-out landmark

  05-11-2019 13:30
  Next up in our high-tech architecture series we look at the Centre Pompidou in Paris by Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano, the inside-out landmark that drew global attention to the movement.
  Known locally as the Beaubourg, after the area of Paris in which it is located, the Centre Pompidou is a cultural landmark that has its structure and mechanical services visible on the exterior of the building.
  The highly-flexible container for art was completed in 1977 by British architect Rogers and Ital
  
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• BIG completes yin-and-yang-shaped Panda House at Copenhagen Zoo

  05-11-2019 13:29
  BIG has completed a circular enclosure at a zoo in Denmark to house two giant pandas that have been relocated from Chengdu, China.
  Built at the heart of Copenhagen Zoo, Panda House has been designed by BIG in collaboration with Schønherr Landscape Architects, MOE and a number of zoologists to mimic the bears' ideal natural habitat.
  Its form evokes the Chinese yin-yang symbol, providing separate areas for the male and female bear so that they can't see, hear or even smell each other u
  
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• Beyond Angkor Wat: Cambodia's New Cultural Architecturehttp://dlvr.it/RHfKwF 

  05-11-2019 12:04
  Beyond Angkor Wat: Cambodia's New Cultural Architecturehttp://dlvr.it/RHfKwF 
  
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• Beyond Angkor Wat: Cambodia's New Cultural Architecture - ArchDaily

  05-11-2019 11:30
  
  Beyond Angkor Wat: Cambodia's New Cultural Architecture  ArchDaily
  
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• Ravel Residence / OZhttp://dlvr.it/RHdp7d 

  05-11-2019 08:47
  Ravel Residence / OZhttp://dlvr.it/RHdp7d 
  
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• House in the Woods / WEYES Estudiohttp://dlvr.it/RHdgt3 

  05-11-2019 07:59
  House in the Woods / WEYES Estudiohttp://dlvr.it/RHdgt3 
  
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• Beneath the Tent of a Horizonless Sky - e-flux Architecture - e-flux - E-Flux

  05-11-2019 06:27
  Beneath the Tent of a Horizonless Sky - e-flux Architecture - e-flux  E-Flux
  
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• Beneath the Tent of a Horizonless Sky - e-flux Architecture - E-Flux

  05-11-2019 06:27
  Beneath the Tent of a Horizonless Sky - e-flux Architecture  E-Flux
  
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• R2 Studio adds hole-punched staircase made of ash wood to London house

  05-11-2019 06:00
  An ash-wood staircase perforated with circular holes connects the two storeys of an Edwardian house in Lewisham, London, which has been extended by architects R2 Studio.
  Ash House, which overlooks the River Quaggy, is surrounded by gardens mature trees along the river bank.The extension creates more space for the living, kitchen and dining area at ground floor level, and provides new bedrooms above.
  Vertical timber batons cover the exterior of the new structure, with a thin gap of shadow de
  
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• House in Ohasu / arbolhttp://dlvr.it/RHdQFG 

  05-11-2019 05:49
  House in Ohasu / arbolhttp://dlvr.it/RHdQFG 
  
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• Beating 680 other competition entries, today the Pompidou is one of the great #buildings of the final decades of the 20th century and embody many of the ideals of high-tech #architecture. This @dezeen guide explains the style's past, present, and future.h

  05-11-2019 01:45
  Beating 680 other competition entries, today the Pompidou is one of the great #buildings of the final decades of the 20th century and embody many of the ideals of high-tech #architecture. This @dezeen guide explains the style's past, present, and future.http://bit.ly/2NfYKZz 
  
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