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• New York officials propose using drones to inspect buildings

  06-01-2020 21:00
  
  New York City officials are pushing to legalise the use of drones for facade inspections after an architect was killed by falling debris from a building in the city.Brooklyn Borough president Eric Adams announced the proposal on 22 December 2019, just days after architect Erica Tishman was killed by debris that reportedly fell from a building in Manhattan.
  While it is currently illegal to fly a drone in most of the city, the proposed bill would allow the technology as a means to speed up the ins
  
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• Cadaval & Solà-Morales creates all-white cubic home in Monterrey

  06-01-2020 16:00
  
  A courtyard with a swimming pool lies at the heart of this inward-facing dwelling in northern Mexico by architecture studio Cadaval & Solà-Morales.Casa Ombra is 608-square-metre house located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, a town within the sprawling metropolis of Monterrey.
  The all-white dwelling, which sits on a gently sloping site, was designed by Cadaval & Solà-Morales, a studio with offices in Mexico City and Barcelona.
  The property is approximately square in plan and "ins
  
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• AIRLAB 3D prints stainless steel pavilion for Singapore's Gardens by the Bay

  06-01-2020 13:33
  
  AIRLAB has completed an angular, mesh-covered pavilion at Singapore's Gardens by the Bay, which has a structure made entirely from 3D-printed stainless steel components.
  Built using more than 200 rods connected by 54 3D-printed steel nodes the temporary pavilion was created by the Architectural Intelligence Research Lab (AIRLAB), based at the Singapore University of Technology and Design.
  Called AIRMESH, it is the product of five years of researching and was assembled in two days
  
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• Carlo Ratti's Eyes of the City exhibition in Shenzhen tracks visitors with facial-recognition tech

  06-01-2020 13:30
  
  Architect and MIT professor Carlo Ratti stokes the surveillance debate with his biennale exhibition, which is set in a working train station in China and actively uses facial-recognition technology.
  A part of the the Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture in Shenzhen, The Eyes of the City exhibition is now open at Futian station.
  It features works by over 60 international contributors, including MVRDV, Thomas Heatherwick and Liam Young. All respond to the question of how digital technologies
  
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• How Architecture Responded to Climate Change in 2019 - ArchDaily

  06-01-2020 09:00
  
  How Architecture Responded to Climate Change in 2019  ArchDaily
  
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• Melilla's historic market converted into latticed education centre

  06-01-2020 03:00
  
  Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos used a lattice of aluminium beams to cover the ceramic tiled facade of an education centre built over an abandoned market in Melilla.
  An autonomous Spanish city located on the coast of Africa, bordering Morocco, Melilla's historic market had been operating for some 90 years prior to its closure in 2003.After winning a 2008 ideas competition, Madrid-based practice Ángel Verdasco Arquitectos were commissioned to regenerate the area.
  The brief required that
  
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