Tag: real-estate development
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Broadgate Exchange House
AIA Twenty-Five Year Award: Broadgate Exchange House Architect, May 2015 The Big Bang, at least the British version of it, took place on Oct. 27, 1986, when Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher deregulated the London stock market. Very swiftly after that, the City of London morphed from an insular old-boys club into a modern, global financial center. […]
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Malls Aren’t Dying
Shopping Malls Aren’t Actually Dying CityLab, March 25, 2015 On March 5, the Miami Herald revealed a new plan to build a 200-acre mega-mall in the suburbs of Miami, complete with an attached hotel and condos, a sea-lion show, and an artificial ski slope. It would be the largest shopping mall in the United States, […]
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College Park, College Town?
The Plan to Make College Park a College Town Washingtonian, March 2015 US Route 1 inside the Beltway in Maryland is no crummier than the turnpikes outside Amherst, Massachusetts; Bloomington, Indiana; or any other town that hosts a major state university. A traveler headed south through College Park takes in a view of Taco Bell, […]
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Double Whammy
Would there be more women in architecture if there were more women in development? Architect, Sept. 2012 It was a brownfield site, an old car dealership in New Orleans’s Warehouse District. Five years ago, Angela O’Byrne, AIA, envisioned something more there: a mixed-use, 10-story, carbon-neutral redevelopment, the first of its kind in the city. She […]
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