In January 2018, Ciudad Juarez announced the winner of the Juan Gabriel Plaza Design Competition. The winning design was submitted by HADVD Arquitectos, an architecture firm based in Juarez and El Paso, and featured a range of greening elements including local flora, grass berms, and an events venue to encourage greater public use and culture. The final […]
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Dezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by climate change, which includes building floating villages connected by ferries, a red-hued cycle route, and a highway for autonomous vehicles. BIG developed the scheme with One Architecture + Urbanism (ONE) and Sherwood Design Engineers (Sherwood) as part of Resilient by Design’s Bay Area Challenge – a contest
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Dezeen: Rising water levels don’t cause many problems for this bridge in the Dutch city of Nijmegen – it can still be accessed even when the path on either side is flooded, thanks to a series of concrete stepping stones. Next Architects and H+N+S Landscape Architects teamed up on the design of Zalige Bridge, which forms part of a pathway across a park
RAISED STEPPING STONES ALLOW DUTCH BRIDGE TO REMAIN ACCESSIBLE DURING A FLOOD Read More »
January 11, 20186:00PM – 8:00PM Robert L. Craig School Gymnasium An update on proposed flood risk reduction measures in the Boroughs of Little Ferry, Moonachie, Carlstadt, and Teterboro and the Township of South Hackensack, in Bergen County, New Jersey. Learn more here>>
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San Francisco Chronicle: Channelized creeks opened up so that sediment can spill into the bay and bring marshes back to life. Landscaped waterways lined by high-rise housing. Floating buildings grouped inside new lagoons along the shore. These visions, of a region where cities and nature are entwined more closely than ever before, aren’t the work of
DESIGN COMPETITION TACKLES SITES AROUND BAY AREA TO ADDRESS RISING WATERS Read More »
North Jersey: A plan to protect five towns in the Meadowlands region from chronic flooding has reached its final stages and could begin construction as early as 2020 and be completed by 2022. In the Robert L. Craig School gym, engineers and representatives from the Department of Environmental Protection presented the final plan for the “New Meadowlands”
5 BERGEN TOWNS TO BENEFIT FROM DEP MEADOWLANDS FLOODING PLAN Read More »
WYPR: 2017 is looking to be a record setting year when it comes to natural disasters in the United States. Climate change and a growing population have all contributed to a rise in natural disasters around the world… So what’s being done about it? This month, Wes looks at where governments have fallen short when it
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Tuesday, December 19, 20176:30PM PS 184 Shuang Wen, 327 Cherry Street The Lower Manhattan Coastal Resiliency (LMCR) Project is an integrated coastal protection initiative aimed at reducing flood risk due to coastal storms and sea level rise in Lower Manhattan. This meeting will focus on the waterfront from Montgomery Street to the Brooklyn Bridge. This upcoming
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Friday, December 15th10:00am – 12:00pm CSTMuseo de la Revolución en la Frontera Ciudad Juárez, Mexico 32000 The City of Juarez and Rebuild by Design invite residents, local businesses, and stakeholders to a community event to give feedback on the initial design proposals for the enhancement of Juan Gabriel Plaza. Selected top respondents to the challenge will
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Wednesday, December 13th6:00pm – 8:00pm PSTLos Angeles Cleantech Incubator Los Angeles, CA 90013 The City of Los Angeles will present draft recommendations for further stakeholder input during Building Forward LA’s final feedback opportunity on December 13th. The recommendations come as a culmination of a six month outreach process that included five public events and discussions with architects,
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