April 12, 2016 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Adams Gardens (HHA Senior Housing)220 Adams StreetHoboken, NJUnited States Members of the public are invited to attend a design focused community meeting for the Rebuild by Design Hudson River project. For the convenience of residents, three meetings will be held at different locations throughout the City throughout
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March 7, 2016 – April 28, 2016 All Day The Architecture Gallery, RIBA66 Portland PlaceLondon, W1B 1ADUnited Kingdom As part of RIBA’s Creation from Catastrophe: How Architecture Rebuilds Communities, Rebuild by Design will be on view. The display will feature the innovative designs from the competition that were designed for communities impacted by Hurricane Sandy. About the exhibition: The destruction of
The San Francisco Bay Area is gearing up for a competition based on Rebuild by Design’s Hurricane Sandy successful model. Rebuild by Design has been working closely with the San Francisco Department of City Planning and other stakeholders throughout the 9 counties of the Bay area to scope a process focused on storm surges and
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April 12, 20167:00 pm – 8:45 pm The Architecture Gallery, RIBA66 Portland PlaceLondon, W1B 1ADUnited States As part of RIBA’s Creation from Catastrophe: How Architecture Rebuilds Communities, join Special Envoy for International Water Affairs for the Kingdom of the Netherlands, Henk Ovink, OMA’s Reinier de Graaf and Amy Chester, Managing Director, Rebuild by Design, discuss new ways
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The Guardian: Just as musicians can build their year around festival appearances, architects can now fill their calendar with deadlines for design competitions. The international contest is an increasingly fashionable way of generating new ideas, forging reputations and getting some interesting things built. We have competitions to thank for New York’s 9/11 Ground Zero Memorial and Manhattan’s High
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NJ.com: Consultants and local and state officials pushing for a $230 million federally funded plan to resist Hurricane Sandy-like flooding have been gradually breaking down the public’s resistance to the plan itself, inundating residents with meetings, online presentations and solicitations for their views on how the plan should look. And judging from the latest gathering
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April 7, 2016 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm Multi Service Center124 Grand StreetHoboken, NJUnited States The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) will be holding a working Regional CAG meeting on April 7, 2016. This meeting, along with a number of open house community workshops, will focus on design elements and amenities that may
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The Hudson Reporter: What will Hoboken’s flood protection look like? Planners expect to make renderings public by June but residents first need to provide input. The City of Hoboken will host three workshops in April to discuss a finalized plan as part of the $230 million federally-funded Rebuild by Design Hudson River project spurred in
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April 1, 2016 5:30 pm – 8:00 pm Pratt Manhattan Campus144 West 14th Street, Second Floor, Room 213New YorkUnited States Last in the series of public discussions on the outcomes of the Paris 2015 Climate Conference and the implications for grassroots organizations and frontline communities. Building on the previous two panels, this final session will focus on
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March 24, 2016 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm 7 Middle StreetBridgeport, CTUnited States Join us this Thursday, March 24, for a public open house to learn about coastal resilience and planning efforts in Bridgeport, CT resulting from the Rebuild by Design competition. The focus of the Open House will be to share research and design
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