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Real Estate | Tag | Archdaily 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT ArchDaily Real Estate Real Estate: The Latest Architecture and News Are Suburbs the New Cities? Exploring the Future of Suburban Development in the United States 3 days ago Suburbs as we know them are changing forever. Partially exacerbated by the eects of the pandemic, residents are leaving cities in droves in search of more favorable living conditions where more space, privacy, and aordability oers what some consider to be a more comfortable lifestyle. But as time goes on, and development sprawls, it’s harder to tell where cities end and suburbs begin. Save this article Read more » Noourbanographies of the Information Age: Your Real Estate Interior May 03, 2020 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 1/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT Can a collective agency, or mind, be traced across the urban condition? And how should we map its eects on the physical matter of our cities? A specific representation of a specific type of ‘home’ is employed as an exercise in defining the impact of a “logic of thinking that is both embodied and distributed, singular and collective.” Hélène Frichot’s proposal for “Noourbanographies” was written as a response to the call for papers of the “Eyes of the City,” well before our domestic interiors became the new public. Looking at the distance between hegemonic collectives and ecologies of subjectivities as space for action, the essay opens up to an articulate range of issues that involve matters of care, diagrammatic thinking and spaces of control. For the 2019 Shenzhen Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (UABB), titled "Urban Interactions," (21 December 2019-8 March 2020) ArchDaily is working with the curators of the "Eyes of the City" section to stimulate a discussion on how new technologies might impact architecture and urban life. The contribution below is part of a series of scientific essays selected through the “Eyes of the City” call for papers, launched in preparation of the exhibitions: international scholars were asked to send their reflection in reaction to the statement by the curators Carlo Ratti Associati, Politecnico di Torino and SCUT, which you can read here. Save this article Read more » Buying A Home: What You Should Know Before You Purchase April 05, 2019 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 2/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT Access to housing, both in the case of purchasing or renting, with any type of financing, is usually one of the most important economic investments in people's lives. It is natural to ask oneself what considerations are necessary in order to have a knowledge base before acting. Save this article Read more » Architecture Matters – Annual Summit on Cities and the Future March 12, 2019 info & tickets: www.architecturematters.eu Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 3/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily topic 2019: THINK BIG! Great Ideas, Large Scale Projects and Disaster By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT mission: Architecture Matters is an international conference on the future of architecture and cities, which brings together all relevant stake- holders from architecture, real estate and politics. A provocative platform for the curious and the courageous – exploring urban utopias and entrepreneurial visions. With lectures, discussion pan- els, workshops, speed dating and surprising extras. Held in Munich once a year. Inspiration, business, network. Save this article Read more » Aedas Unveil Design for an Undulating Oice Complex in Central China March 07, 2018 The internationally recognized architecture firm Aedas has unveiled their design for the Zhenghong Property Air Harbour Oice Project. The sprawling and interconnected 196 foot-tall three-tower complex is proposed for the city of Zhengzhou, the capital of the Henan Province in central China—one of the regions' largest transportation hubs. Occupying a relatively narrow site, the towers are woven together by a rhythmic glass facade inspired by the formal qualities of the winding Yellow River. Save this project Read more » Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 4/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily Thom Mayne Completes Research on Houston’s Urban Future December 18, 2016 By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT Pritzker Prize winner Thom Mayne has completed a three-semester–long study of Houston’s future, given its current sprawling urban conditions and rapid growth. The project, conducted alongside 21 University of Houston students and faculty members Matt Johnson, Peter Zweig, and Jason Logan, focused on ways of addressing the problems that arise from Houston’s historical lack of zoning in conjunction with the largely unregulated growth of industry and capitalism. These approaches include reinventing the current energy infrastructure, changing real estate and density, and leveraging the lack of zoning to generate new ideas. Save this article Read more » Pierre Koenig’s Historic Case Study House #21 Could Be Yours... for the Right Price November 07, 2016 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 5/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT One of modernism’s most iconic houses, Case Study House 21 (Bailey House) by Pierre Koenig, is now on sale. The two-bed/two-bath Hollywood Hills landmark has been touted as among the finest of Arts & Architecture Magazine’s Case Study Houses, and one of the program’s few truly experimental projects to explore groundbreaking design and materials. Save this article Read more » Coup De Grâce April 19, 2016 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 6/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily The following article was first published by Volume Magazine in their 47th issue, The System*. You can read the Editorial of this issue, How Much Does Your System Weigh?, here. NBye uosinlgi bArechrDaaill yp, yoous atg-rfeoe trod ouisr Tmerm ps of sUsees, P ariv adcry aPomlicay taincd Ccohokaiel lPeonlicgy.e to urbanism as we have come to Ik AnCoCwE PitT since the early 20th century. The public planning process has become more and more an embarrassment and obstacle to urban and economic flourishing. It’s a relic of a bygone era. The high point of urban planning was the post- war era of socialist planning and re-construction of the built environment. With respect to this period we can speak about physical or perhaps ‘positive planning’, in the sense of governments formulating concrete plans and designs about what to build. This era has long gone as society evolved beyond the simple fordist society of mechanical mass production to our current post-fordist networked society. When a few basic standards were functionally separate, optimized and endlessly repeated, central planning could still cope with the pace of societal progress. The world we live in today is far too multi-faceted, complex and dynamic to be entrusted to a central planning agency. The old model broke apart as it could not handle the level of complexity we live with and our cities should accommodate. The decentralized information processing mechanism of the market was indeed capable of managing such levels of complexity and, for this reason, has eectively taken over all positive decision-making processes. Save this article Read more » Max Show Center / PRAXiS d'ARCHITECTURE October 10, 2015 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 7/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT SHOWROOM • QINGDAO, CHINA Architects: Praxis d’Architecture Area: 1800 m²Area: 1800 m² Year: 2015Year: 2015 Save this project Read more » A2M, Jaspers-Eyers Architects and BAG Design Eco-Neighborhood for Belgium June 12, 2015 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 8/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT Association Bureau A2M, Jaspers-Eyers Architects and Bureau d’Architecture Greish's (BAG) proposal for an “eco-neighborhood” in Liège, Belgium, has been unanimously selected by a jury in a competition to design a mixed-use real-estate project. Dubbed “Paradis Express,” the design incorporates oices, housing and local shops and will occupy a 35,000m2 site located along a future esplanade across from Guillemins station, and next to the new Finance Tower. The competition was held by Fedimmo, in consultation with the city of Liège and the Walloon Region. Save this project Read more » Homes You Cannot Live in: The New Cost of Architectural Antiques August 20, 2014 Home Projects Products Folders Feed https://www.archdaily.com/tag/real-estate 9/16 1/11/2021 Real Estate | Tag | ArchDaily By using ArchDaily, you agree to our Terms of Use, Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy. I ACCEPT What is the true value of architecture in today's society? According to this article by Anna Katz, rare pieces of architectural history have recently soared in value. Katz discusses the booming world of architecture at auction, featuring pieces by Mies Van Der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright among others.
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