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New York City is installing its first large-scale porous pavement installation along seven miles of roadway in Brooklyn. The project will keep 35 million gallons of stormwater out of the combined sewer system each year, according to a news release.
Great streets are generally not initially curated or willed into being. Rather, they emerge organically from unintentional synergies of commercial, business, cultural and economic drivers. L.A.’s Melrose Avenue is a prime example.
It is common for significant curtain wall leakage to involve multiple variables. Therefore, a comprehensive multi-faceted investigation is required to determine the origin of leakage, according to building enclosure consultants Richard Aeck and John A. Rudisill with Rimkus.
A report by an Urban Land Institute’s Advisory Services panel, commissioned by the city’s housing authority, Atlanta Housing (AH), offered ways the city could collaborate with developers to spur more housing construction.
Unused tube lines would host pedestrian paths, cycle routes, cultural spaces, and retail outlets.
Austin, Texas, and Troy, N.Y., are among the cities with the strongest safe streets policies, according to a new report.
Perkins Eastman in Stamford, Conn., designed the school to emphasize and integrate the International Baccalaureate curriculum throughout.
Designed by Eero Saarinen in the late 1950s, the two-million-sf, steel-and-glass building was one of the best-funded and successful corporate research laboratories in the world.
The new alloy makes steel as strong as titanium.
When completed, M+ will be one of the first buildings in the Foster + Partners-planned West Kowloon Cultural District.
Construction employers added 39,000 jobs in January and 308,000 over the past year, reaching the highest employment total since February 2009.
The plans by architect Gutierrez & Lozano are of a sleek, boutique-looking, 22,500-sf facility at the gateway to the city.
How can 3D printing affect the building design and construction industry?
The plan will guarantee bike riders a designated stretch of street to ride from east to west through the city.
