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Run Run Run Intervention / Andrés Jaque / Office for Political Innovation

August 4, 2020 Clara Ott 0

Run Run Run is intended as an architectural intervention that facilitates the use of the city in alternative ways. It is an infrastructure that makes it possible to turn the street into a playground and training site, helping to emancipate oneself from the dependence of the domestic space and providing opportunities to favour encounters through activities that usually promote individualism.

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Foster + Partners designs “porous” Apple store in Beijing

August 4, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Apple Sanlitun by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China

A large overhanging roof shelters the expansive glass walls that front the “open and inviting” Apple Sanlitun store by Foster + Partners in Beijing, China. Located in a large open square within Sanlitun, an area of the capital city’s Chaoyang District, the building replaces China’s first Apple Store built adjacent to the site in 2008.

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RIBA calls for “urgent reconsideration” of proposals to deregulate planning

August 4, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
RIBA calls for "urgent reconsideration" of proposals to deregulate planning

The UK government’s plans to deregulate the planning permission system in England will lead to poor quality housing warns the Royal Institute of British Architects. Under new regulations announced by UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick homes, hospitals, schools, shops and offices on land designated for growth will “automatically” be granted planning permission. “Deregulation is not the way

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Brick in Latin American Architecture: Hospitals and Health Centers

August 4, 2020 Santiago Baraya 0

The focus of buildings should ultimately be the well-being of the people using them. When we think of our experiences in hospitals, clinics, the dentist’s office, and other medical facilities, the feeling is rarely pleasant. Perhaps it’s the smells, the dull, monotone colors, or the sound of medical gadgets working away on some unlucky patient. 

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Dutch city swaps asphalt for trees to adapt to climate change

August 4, 2020 India Block 0
Arnhem has made a 10 year climate change plan

Arnhem in the Netherlands has made a 10-year plan to re-landscape the city to cope with extreme flooding and heatwaves caused by climate change. Flooding, heatwaves and droughts are already affecting the city, prompting the council to set a goal of reducing the amount of asphalt – a dark material used for roads and sidewalks

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