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[INFOHIGHTECH] Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction - Awards Bronze - Germany. View of pool area towards Dom, Lustgarten and Castle.

Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction - Awards Bronze - Germany

Segment B: Isometic view of filter basin along Friedrichsgracht. Segment A: Isometric view of swimming pool area at Lustgarten. Segment C: Isometric view of renaturized uppermost section of the river. View of filter basin along Friedrichsgracht. HavvAda Island, Turkey by Studio Dror. One billion cubic meter of soil will be carved out in order to create the canal. iNANLAR proposes to utilize the soil and use this opportunity to build a new land and a new model for a forward-thinking living environment.

HavvAda Island, Turkey by Studio Dror

Over the past century, our world has witnessed tremendous changes, urban migration, global density, continuing growth of the urban fabrics, economical globalization, human’s mobility, and environmental concerns among many other issues. – Studio Dror Image by Studio Dror A green island made of 6 hills of different sizes circling the downtown center of the land. Each hill up rises on top of a mega structural sphere that supports the residences on the hillsides and a community life at the center. Www.gat.st/sites/default/files/workshop_einladung_programm.pdf. Venice: from Gated Lagoon to Bioregion. Computer rendering by Christian Kerrigan.

Venice: from Gated Lagoon to Bioregion

Rachel Armstrong, who develops synthetic biology applications for the built environment, believes it could be possible to grow an artificial limestone reef underneath Venice using ‘metabolic materials’ — photosensitive protocells, engineered to be light averse. Her idea is to stop the city sinking into the soft mud on which its foundations are built — and to do so in a way that respects its non-human inhabitants. Armstrong’s approach sounds like science fiction — but it’s informed by the ways living systems actually survive in hostile environments. When algae, shellfish and bacteria search for new territories and nutrients, for example, they sculpt the materials of their surroundings.

Armstrong describes these as ‘tailored micro-environments’ — formed over time with the movements of the tides and currents. The alternative approach is to build structures in symbiosis with their living context. City to River Blog. MoDOT has announced a public open house on Tuesday, April 10th in downtown to view displays and converse with MoDOT representatives regarding planned improvements to the Arch grounds.

City to River Blog

This likely comes as welcome news to a public long hungry for information about the region’s largest, most iconic project. An iconic project they recently discovered they’d be asked to help pay for, yet still know relatively little about. This public event follows the other lone example of public engagement, the NPS Environmental Assessment (EA) in which 119 of 123 written submissions called for at least studying replacing the highway with a boulevard and reconnected street grid. These comments were dismissed from the NPS EA as out of scope, although they would be perfectly relevant were it not for the fragmentation that results from independent environmental reviews for the same overall project. James Corner Field Operations Team Wins Navy Pier Competition. Today, the Chicago Tribune has reported James Corner Field Operations Team has been selected to redesign the 3,000 foot-long Chicago landmark, Navy Pier.

James Corner Field Operations Team Wins Navy Pier Competition

Blair Kamin stated that the pier’s governing board approved the recommendation from the pier’s strategic planning committee to hire the JFCO team as they favored the team’s practical, yet still creative approach over the other, somewhat grandiose, schemes. It has been a big week for JCFO, as James Corner and Rich Scofidio’s latest ideas for the third section of the High Line were released on Tuesday. Continue reading for more information on the latest news regarding the winners of the international Navy Pier redesign competition. “They dreamed big, but they were able to do it in a way we could pay for it,” said Sarah Garvey, chairwoman of Navy Pier, Inc.

After a unanimous vote in favor of the JCFO Team, board members highlighted the fact that they were selecting a designer and not necessarily a completed design. Gestions de l’eau et du développement urbain dans l’espace dijonnais : quels modes d’intégration territoriale ? Deltas in Times of Climate Change, Rotterdam International Conference 2010 - Home. Studio Gang Architects. News.

Studio Gang Architects

AIVP - Le réseau mondial des villes portuaires. Le retour de la ville portuaire. 1Villes et ports entretiennent des relations parmi les plus complexes, les plus diversifiées et les plus déterminantes que l’urbanisme contemporain ait à traiter.

Le retour de la ville portuaire

Ces relations engagent la vie économique d’une région toute entière, parfois d’un pays. Elles déterminent un mode de rapport à la nature (articulation avec la mer en termes de paysage, d’écologie ou de ressources), elles spécifient une culture particulière (internationalisme, mobilité des personnes et des marchandises, mythes) et se répercutent dans bien d’autres domaines professionnel, résidentiel ou encore technologique. 2Parce que le port et la ville qui l’environne ou le côtoie sont soumis à un exigeant principe de réalisme technique et économique, cette relation a pris des formes assez diverses dans le temps long de l’histoire des territoires. 1 Titre d’un célèbre film français de Marcel Carné (1938) dans lequel le « mauvais garçon » repenti (...) 2 Les métaphores domestiques sont nombreuses dans ce domaine.