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AZ Awards 2021: Meet the Finalists!

Azure Magazine

Architecture – Residential, Single Family. Architecture – Residential, Multi-Unit. Graal architecture: Recreation Center in Athis-Mons, Ile-de-France, France. Architecture – Temporary & Experiential Installations. Architectural Products. Landscape Architecture. Ren Peng: Smart-Box.

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Is the Future of Toronto Designed in London?

Azure Magazine

Yet, a walk through the tight-knit network of cobblestoned mews and laneways unfolds with uncommon intimacy, framed by ample seating, greenery, and an assertive red brick architecture seamlessly knit into the surrounding urban fabric. On the waterfront, Alison Brooks’ Quayside tower comes closest to the architecture of spectacle.

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Why do we need smart(er) cities and how to build one

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With cities expected to house more than two-thirds of the world’s population by 2050, our goal here is to better understand how this increasingly common living environment can best accommodate those who will inevitably make it their home. Enter Smart(er) Cities We began the previous segment asking why cities?

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MAD Reimagines Beijing’s Urban Heritage with Hutong Bubble 218

Azure Magazine

At 2006 Venice Biennale, the firm exhibited the project Beijing 2050, which presented “alternative scenarios” for the city in the wake of social and economic forces influencing its architectural form.

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The Office As We Knew It No Longer Exists

Azure Magazine

Recently, we were commissioned by the immersive design studio Scatter to envision the physical space in which virtual reality is produced and presented. The paradigm shift of the last decade makes office design as much about “software” (or programming) as it is about “hardware” (the architectural or physical infrastructure itself).

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Babylons of Tomorrow: The Architecture of Arab Futures

Azure Magazine

As Amal Dababseh report s, “56 percent of the population of the Arab world currently lives in cities and urban centres and it is expected that the population of cities and urban areas will increase by 75 percent by 2050.”. However clumsily, it hints at an assertive cultural and architectural manifestation of Arab Futurism.

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Carlo Ratti’s Abundance Agenda 

Azure Magazine

Collective , the central exhibition of the 19th Venice Biennale of Architecture, curator Carlo Rattis wall text unfolds a foreboding vision of the future: The Exhibition begins in the Corderie with a stark confrontation: global temperatures rise while global populations fall. Organizing in the Lobby by The Architecture Lobby.