Bay Nature: Last month, as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida, a crowd of international designers, scientists, and policy-makers gathered at a warehouse-turned-winery at the Port of Richmond. They were there to launch a new effort called Resilient by Design to consider how the Bay Area will adapt to seas that could, at the extreme end, rise
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Sunday, October 29, 20172:00pm – 5:00pm Hoboken Historical Museum1301 Hudson Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030 The City of Hoboken and the Hoboken Museum invite residents and visitors to come together as a community to reflect on Superstorm Sandy for the 5-year anniversary. Residents and visitors are invited to view Sandy-related matierals, sign the museum’s 5-year anniversary
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Rebuild has been chosen- along with a number of other architects, academics, activists and government organizations from 26 countries- to exhibit in the XX Chile Urbanism and Architecture Biennale in October 2017. In total, 218 works will be exhibited in the international exhibition “Unpostponable Dialogues.” We will be featuring the products and process of the Hurricane
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NJ Spotlight: Nearly five years to the day after Hurricane Sandy inundated Hoboken, the city got word from the federal government that it was releasing $230 million to fund a huge project to protect the municipality and neighboring towns from flooding and storm surges. The authorization to use the funds by the U.S. Department of Housing
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Architectural Record: The setting, an ornate auditorium in Manhattan’s Masonic Hall, was designed for semi-secret rituals, but the focus of Architectural Record’s latest Innovation Conference was the opposite: ways architecture can improve cities for everyone. Cathleen McGuigan, the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, started the event, titled The Future of Architecture and the Public Realm, by noting that it was
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Thursday, October 19, 2017 7:30AM – 7:00PMMasonic Hall 71 W 23rd St #1003 New York, New York 10010United States The Architectural Record Innovation Conference East gathers key figures who are generating a range of creative solutions for the built environment today and into the future. This year’s conference focuses on the future of architecture and the public
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Join Resilient Bridgeport for a presentation on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) process and design alternatives. Following the presentation, the public will have the opportunity to speak with project representatives and provide input to design alternatives. Click here for more information>>
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Wednesday, October 18, 20176:00PM Littlefield Recital HallArnold Bernhard Arts and Humanities Center (First Floor)84 Iranistan Avenue, Bridgeport, CT A Public Information Meeting for Resilient Bridgeport will be held at in the Littlefield Recital Hall of the Arnold Bernhard Arts & Humanities Center in Bridgeport, CT to provide an overview of the program as it launches into the
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Tuesday, October 176:00 – 8:00PMCarlstadt Municipal Building500 Main Street, Carlstadt Participate in the next Meadowlands Citizen Advisory Group will meet at the Carlstadt Municipal Building. The purpose of the meeting is to review three flood-risk reduction alternatives for the project. Learn more here>>
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Coastal Living: A landscape architect who saves coastlines? Meet urban designer Kate Orff, a newly named MacArthur Fellow, and the visionary behind New York City’s SCAPE studio. Orff and her team tackle a future of rising sea levels while working to integrate regenerative marine life with sea walls, waterfronts, and other infrastructure. One example is SCAPE’s award-winning “Living Breakwaters” project
THIS GROUNDBREAKING LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT IS CHANGING THE WAY WE THINK ABOUT COASTLINES Read More »
