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Visitors to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai, China, are experiencing a former industrial site reclaimed as a riverside oasis: Houtan Park. Running through this strip of green space, interlaced with walkways, a constructed wetland treats polluted river water for use at the Expo.
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The Safari Drive multifamily residential complex in downtown Scottsdale, Arizona, exemplifies a higher-density, pedestrian-scaled alternative to the exploding sprawl of greater Phoenix. Designed by The Miller Hull Partnership, it succeeds as design in the broadest sense: place-making that intertwines architecture, planning, and landscape.
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A boxy new house stands on stilts in the Katrina-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Its form may be distinctly contemporary, but the home has ties to its place: filigree railings recall the ornamental ironwork of the French Quarter, and a linear plan evokes some sense of the regional shotgun house vernacular.
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When leaders in Milton Keynes, England, sought a new recreation center in the Central Bletchley district, they had many goals: an iconic presence on the outside, countless fitness and sports facilities on the inside, and a building that could catalyze an overall regeneration of the town. But the overriding goal — one that tied together all these disparate parts — was to make the new Bletchley Leisure Center a state-of-the-art sustainable building.
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More Architecture News Daily Architecture Headlines — Updated every day at ArchitectureWeek
Estimates Suggest Spill Is Biggest in U.S. History — New York Times, 2010.0528
New Orleans' Nine Most Endangered Sites Bear Legacies of Music, Worship, Justice — New Orleans Times-Picayune, 2010.0527
Rome's New Contemporary Art Museum Set to Open — CBC News, 2010.0527
Kimbell Art Museum Releases Final Design for Addition to Kahn's Original — Chicago Tribune, 2010.0527
Two Architects Have a Meeting of the Minds at a Texas Museum — New York Times, 2010.0527
Great New Landscapes — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0526
Boston Properties Bows Out — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0526
Vote Endorses Muslim Center Near Ground Zero — New York Times, 2010.0525
'Amityville Horror' Home Goes on Sale for $1.15m — BBC, 2010.0525
U.S. Economy: Purchases, Inventories of Existing Homes Increase — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Fed Says Asset Sales Will Come after Rates Are Raised — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Mortgage Delinquencies Decline Broadly in April -S&P — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0524
U.S. Subprime Hunt Targets Goldman, May Skip Cassano: Timeline — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Tax Credit and Low Mortgage Rates Boost Home Sales — Associated Press, 2010.0524
Daiwa House Seeking Acquisitions to Expand Renovation Sales — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0524
Calif. Homebuilder Agrees to Plea in Fraud Ring — Bloomberg BusinessWeek, 2010.0521
Arakawa, Reversible Destiny Artist Who Claimed to Defy Death, Dies at 73 in New York — NY Daily News, 2010.0520
Ten Years of ArchitectureWeek — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0519
People and Places 2010.0519 — , 2010.0519
Govt to Watch for Leaky Home Repair Rip-Offs — tvnz.co.nz, 2010.0518
Thousands Miss Leaky Home Deal — stuff.co.nz, 2010.0518
Lowe's Profit Beats Expectations, but Forecast Falls Short — Market Watch, 2010.0517
Builders in U.S. Turn Less Pessimistic as Sales Rise — Bloomberg, 2010.0517
Accredited Home, Young, Aleris, Parking: Bankruptcy — Bloomberg, 2010.0517
Toll Brothers Board Elects Yearley New CEO — Associated Press, 2010.0517
Home Builders Pare Losses Slightly on Builder Confidence — Wall Street Journal, 2010.0517
Crisis Cut U.S. Minority Mortgage Access: Study — Reuters, 2010.0513
Quebec Family Dies as Home Vanishes into Crater — New York Times, 2010.0513
AIA Housing Awards 2010 — ArchitectureWeek, 2010.0512
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