Tag #Urban Design

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From Flood to Future: Speculative Design Addresses Climate Change Adaptation in Spain

Students from EASD Castelló's From Flood to Future project won the Biodesign Challenge Summit 2025 Best Narrative award for their speculative design addressing the 2024 Dana flood in Paiporta, Spain, showcasing existing technological and urban solutions, and advocating for improved communication and...

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Statue Honors UK's First Female Landscape Gardener

Fanny Wilkinson, the UK's first professional female landscape gardener, is being honored with a statue in London's Coronation Gardens; she designed 75 parks, creating vital green spaces in Victorian London, and championed equal pay for women.

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Gender Equality
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Sustainable Housing in Canada: Reducing Emissions and Building Sustainable Communities

Buildings in Canada produce up to 30 percent of the country's greenhouse gas emissions; however, retrofitting a Toronto home reduced heating emissions by 80 percent and CO2 emissions by 25,000 pounds, showcasing the potential for sustainable building practices and holistic community development thro...

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Climate Action
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Chinese Architect Liu Jiakun Wins 2025 Pritzker Prize

Liu Jiakun, a Chengdu architect, won the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his community-focused designs that blend traditional Chinese philosophy with modern urban planning, exemplified by the West Village complex.

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Liu Jiakun Wins 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun won the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his community-focused designs that transform dense urban spaces into vibrant hubs of cultural, recreational, and commercial activity, exemplified by projects like West Village in Chengdu.

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Grayification of US Homes: Gentrification, Displacement, and the Monochromatic Aesthetic

The increasing prevalence of gray-painted homes in gentrifying neighborhoods across the US, particularly Washington, D.C., coincides with rising home prices and the displacement of Black residents; academics link this to perceptions of wealth and post-racial urbanism aesthetics.

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Reduced Inequality
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Logroño's Concéntrico Festival: 10 Years of Tactical Urbanism

Logroño's Concéntrico festival, celebrating its tenth anniversary, showcased temporary urban interventions using recycled materials and community participation, demonstrating tactical urbanism's potential for improving public spaces.

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NYC Subway Gets New Map: A Geometric Redesign Prioritizing Navigation

The New York City Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA) unveiled a new subway map on April 2nd, 2024, replacing the 1979 version with a more geometric design prioritizing line clarity over geographical accuracy, inspired by Massimo Vignelli's 1972 map, aiming to improve navigation and rider experienc...

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Architect Ricardo Scofidio Dies at 89

Architect Ricardo Scofidio, co-founder of Diller Scofidio + Renfro, died peacefully on Thursday at age 89; his firm's work includes New York City's High Line and other significant cultural and public spaces.

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Liu Jiakun Wins 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize

Chinese architect Liu Jiakun won the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his innovative approach to urban design, integrating architecture with local culture and community needs across more than 30 projects in China over four decades.

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Chinese Architect Wins Pritzker Prize for Innovative Urban Designs

Chinese architect Jiakun Liu won the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize for his innovative designs that transform urban spaces and daily life, notably a Chengdu city block with public ramps and a panda maternity ward built with "rebirth bricks" from 2008 earthquake debris.

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Riells i Viabrea Town Square: A Legacy of Human-Centered Design

Architects Anna Pont and Jordi Comas's final collaboration, the Riells i Viabrea town square renovation, involved pedestrianizing the historic center using red brick paving, creating a community space with benches, a fountain incorporating an old well, and improved accessibility, completed before Po...

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