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  • Can we Quake-Proof a City?

    March 22, 2016 |

    BBC |

    Radio |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: Nepal

    Can we engineer buildings to prevent collapse in earthquakes? The answer is yes, and the Inquiry dives into how better building design can save more and more lives as urban density increases.

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  • Architects Deploy Traffic Barrels to Make U.S.-Mexico Connection

    January 19, 2016 |

    Next City |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, El Paso, Texas

    Art installations create spaces that can bring together members of diverse communities. Using the motif of urban design on the US-Mexico border, professors at Texas Tech in El Paso created an installation that also served as a community event. The “Flash Installation” existed for only a day, but in that time the project brought together student volunteers, community partners, nonprofits, and local businesses.

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  • Nigeria's floating school has plenty to teach the wider world

    June 20, 2015 |

    The Irish Times |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Nigeria, Makoko

    Although the poor Nigerian village of Makoko has some makeshift schools, they cannot cater for the increasing number of children in the area. But a new floating school is aimed at generating a sustainable, inexpensive, ecological, alternative building system and urban water culture for the population of Africa’s coastal regions.

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  • Dutch Aquatecture: Engineering a Future on the Water

    May 11, 2015 |

    Al Jazeera |

    Broadcast TV News |

    5-15 Minutes

    Response Location: Netherlands

    As climate change causes global sea levels to rise, nations around the world are increasingly concerned about threats to infrastructure and livelihoods. But the Dutch have been keeping the sea at bay for centuries using a variety of methods and technologies. Their designs and plans - such as floating buildings - may provide solutions for other countries looking to evolve and adapt to changing ocean levels.

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  • The Perfect Classroom, According to Science

    March 31, 2015 |

    Bright Magazine |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    The physical classroom environment can have profound effects on a student’s academic performance, sense of belonging, and self-esteem. What would the Platonic ideal classroom look like, illustrated? It might include more greenery, fewer visual distractions on classroom walls, and some tweaks to light sources.

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  • Creating Spaces for Peace, Dialogue and Coexistence in Venezuelan Cities

    March 16, 2015 |

    This Big City |

    Text |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Venezuela, Caracas

    Last year, Venezuela became an urban laboratory for architects and urban designers who believe in the implementation of participatory processes and collaborative design techniques in order to change communities who live under threat. This initiative activated urban processes of physical and social transformation through architecture, using self-building techniques in public spaces located in conflictive urban contexts.

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  • Delta Blues: Water and Climate Change from the Mississippi to the Mekong

    January 27, 2015 |

    New Orleans Public Radio (WWNO) |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh City

    Climate change is playing a major role in the way floods are impacting cities. In Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam, residents are routinely threatened with the wet season, oftentimes finding that the only solution is to raise the level of their homes. An architecture firm, however, has invented a possible solution that incorporates trees and plants in the design of houses, which work to collect rainwater instead of deflecting it.

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  • Tiny Houses: A Big Idea to End Homelessness

    February 26, 2014 |

    NBC News |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Oakland, California

    While billions of taxpayer dollars are allocated each year to support shelters and social service initiatives, homelessness remains a persistent problem in the U.S. - in 2013, an estimated 610,000 people slept without shelter every night. All over the country, people are building "tiny homes" to give to the homeless, providing them with shelter, a bathroom, and a kitchen for less then the cost of a shelter.

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  • The pop-up designs changing the city landscape

    August 03, 2013 |

    The Guardian |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United Kingdom, London

    Pop-ups, temporary constructions intended to enliven public places, can often be used as temporary structures and events as marketing tools, and as camouflage for their larger and less charming permanent developments. But young architects in London, their talent and energy outrunning their employment opportunities, initiate, design and build pop-ups as glimpses of what a better city – more open, more social, more pleasurable, more surprising – might be

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  • Hospital uses power of architecture to promote healing

    May 06, 2013 |

    The Globe and Mail |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Canada, Sechelt, British Columbia

    The architecture of a hospital can have huge effects on those inside it: the strain that old hospital buildings put on nurses, who spend too much of their time walking from one supply room to another, and on patients, whose already frail health is tested by living in rooms with one to three other patients, by the noise of the hospital, by infections. St. Mary’s Hospital in Sechelt, B.C., opened a new $44-million dollar building that has made the inside quality of life and care better.

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