The national public competition for the preliminary urban, landscape, and architectural design of the Apartadó River Parks – Stage 2 "Ciudad Do" seeks to transform the Apartadó River into the municipality's primary natural asset, establishing it as the articulating axis of urban planning and the focal point of physical interventions that will achieve: "...a living river... and alive in the people!"

The Bogotá Public Space Biennial (BEP BOG) is a biennial competition organized by the Mayor's Office of Bogotá D.C., represented by the Administrative Department of the Public Space Ombudsman (DADEP) and its Bogotá Public Space Observatory, alongside the Colombian Society of Architects (SCA), Bogotá and Cundinamarca regional chapter. Its purpose is to recognize and promote projects and management strategies for the creation, recovery, and sustainability of public space in Bogotá.

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Today’s rapidly changing world calls for entrepreneurs who question the status quo and are able to leverage people, resources, and processes to produce dynamic solutions. As spatial design activities and the global construction industry experience unprecedented transformation, there are endless opportunities for those with the courage to stand up and take them.

Unstable Infrastructures: Strange Ecologies, Discontinuous [De]growths, and Solidarity Energies

The ideas of progress, development, and growth-based models are being conceptually and materially affected by a series of environmental factors or new economies, which are being reprogrammed through a social and sociopolitical ecology.

SPLACES brings together Interstuhl's products and services to create aesthetic, functional and flexible working environments.

The UNEB Urbanism Week is an annual event organized by the students and faculty of the Bachelor’s degree program in Urbanism—the only one of its kind in Brazil—offering participants the opportunity to attend, engage in dialogue, and debate topics relevant to contemporary urban issues. Its objective is to provide students, social movements, and experts in the fields of urbanism and urban-territorial planning, as well as scholars from cross-disciplinary areas, with a space to deepen and systematize their understanding of the urban phenomenon. In this year’s edition, we will take an introspective look at the 20 years since the enactment of the City Statute, examining its benefits and legal contradictions through the lens of the structural inequalities in Brazilian society regarding race, gender, class, sexual diversity, and more.

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Meetings with architects from cities with IAB chapters in the interior and coastal regions of São Paulo.

The European Union intends to be climate neutral by 2050. This will require decarbonization at all levels of the economy, and the construction sector will have a particularly key role to play. The sector accounts for around 40% of CO2 emissions globally, and steel and concrete, in particular, require enormous amounts of energy to produce. There needs to be a paradigm shift to replace these building materials and their associated environmental impact. Natural and renewable building materials play a crucial role in this.

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The Urbanism in Bahia Seminar - urbBA[21], organized by the Lugar Comum Research Group (UFBA), proposes a discussion on the city and care in its 11th edition.

Sustainable construction in Brazil is growing every year. In 2020, despite the pandemic, there was a 28% increase, and this pace is expected to continue this year. In this context, the Green Building Council Brasil will host its 2021 International Conference starting November 22, which is expected to attract an audience of 10,000 professionals from various countries. Held virtually due to ongoing health restrictions, the event will feature 15 consecutive days of technical lectures, master series, expert interviews, and other activities.

'Nuestras Arquitectas' aims, through this second international photography competition, to focus and refocus on images that have been hidden or overshadowed, restoring the deserved recognition and prominence to women architects.

The climate crisis is driving architects to integrate solar energy as an essential component of architecture right from the start of the design process. Consequently, companies have been prompted to develop new products that go beyond conventional photovoltaic panels installed on roofs or additional support structures.

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Live Stream: Jury Announcement for the IABsp 2021 Awards - Centennial Edition.

"Empty Space" is the theme of the eighth Redes IAAC session, which will be held as an open, online event broadcast via streaming.

Renovating a space for a gastronomic purpose can be one of the most interesting challenges for an architect, due to the freedom of design that tends to characterize these projects. It allows us to play with cladding materials, lighting, and furnishings to create unique spaces that are both attractive and functional for both the restaurant team and the diners.

We dived into our project library to select 5 restaurants that took advantage of their renovations and complexities to create distinctive spaces, presented by ICEX e Interiors from Spain.

The Architecture and Urbanism Week is a non-profit event organized by the Architecture and Urbanism Academic Directory at PUC Minas. Held annually, the event is currently part of the university's second-semester academic calendar. Its primary objective is to highlight topics of regional and global relevance through lectures, workshops, and activities. By welcoming students from PUC Minas and other universities, as well as industry professionals, the event fosters an exchange of experiences among participants. Since 1996, the PUC Minas Architecture and Urbanism Weeks have stood out in the local scene as artistic and cultural events. Beyond architectural discussions, they host debates with social and political movements, meetings with renowned and street artists, exchanges with leading professionals, and a variety of workshops and activities.

What is a threshold to you? And how would you represent it graphically?

This is the challenge posed by the Alejandro de la Sota Foundation for the second edition of the International InstaFASota Competition, which will take place on Instagram.