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From Cloud to Coast: The Physical Cost of AI in Hong Kong’s Borderlands

Jonathan Yeung — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000

Amid the rapid build-out of data centres and AI economies across the Greater Bay Area—and alongside the celebration of AI as a tool and "author," as featured in 2025 Hong Kong–Shenzhen Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism\Architecture (Hong Kong)—a parallel question becomes unavoidable: how do the planning and construction of AI infrastructure actually begin to shape everyday life? Many of the facilities already built remain intentionally distant from daily experience. The "cloud" may be marketed as immaterial, but its architecture is profoundly physical: high-power, high-heat, service-heavy environments that are often sited in remote or low-density areas to take advantage of lower land costs and to minimize friction with nearby communities. Security and risk management further reinforce this logic. Data centres hold sensitive, privileged information—corporate assets, legal records, government and institutional data—and remoteness becomes part of their operating model, keeping the infrastructures of AI both spatially and socially out of sight.

Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared

Martin Pedersen — Fri, 26 May 2023 03:30:00 +0000

This article was originally published on Common Edge.

Zaha Hadid's Business Stadium Central in Vilnius, Lithuania Receives Planning Approval

Christele Harrouk — Tue, 14 Feb 2023 06:30:00 +0000

The Zaha Hadid-designed Business Stadium Central has been granted approval by the City of Vilnius. In collaboration with Lithuanian developer Hanner, the project seeks to become a new gathering place for the city, creating a variety of new public spaces and amenities with flexible workplaces as well as health and wellness facilities for everyone in Vilnius. Construction is scheduled for the second quarter of this year.

Why We Should Create Cities for Children

Marília Matoso — Mon, 22 Aug 2022 04:00:00 +0000

In the book Design of Childhood, architect and researcher Alexandra Lange states that children were considered nonpersons throughout almost the entire history of ancient and modern architecture, being excluded from the process of creating urban and interior spaces. This process has caused and is still causing several problems when children reach adulthood, since these children grew up being constantly watched by fear of movement and the eyes of adults.

Baupal: An Online Building Application Service Making Architecture More Accessible

Andreea Cutieru — Fri, 15 Apr 2022 07:30:00 +0000

By digitizing architecture services, German firm baupal seeks to democratize sustainable and customized architecture, making design, energy assessments, permitting and cost evaluations more accessible and straightforward for private builders and smaller construction projects. Baupal is an online building application service that takes advantage of digital processes and efficient team structures to streamline design, planning and permitting processes for a range of small-scale projects.

Open Call: Low-cost House Design Competition

Rene Submissions — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 12:55:00 +0000

We are pleased to announce the launch of an annual international design competition: Low-cost House Design Competition. The competition is designed to challenge and seek creativity with ideas and concepts in architectural design, as well as landscape design or site planning. This competition aims to promote alternative solutions to housing, coming up with affordable and sustainable units with limited size and budget to the urgent demands for a house of urban poor.

The challenge is both multidisciplinary and multi-scale, a minimal housing capable of fulfilling the residents' requirements of thrift and sustainability. This year’s competition focuses on low-cost house, an affordable

Layered Landscapes Lofoten: Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change

Rene Submissions — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:33:00 +0000

Layered Landscapes Lofoten — Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change adresses today’s most urgent issues about living together in landscapes and territories under severe pressure and transformation. The landscape holds essential information about our common history, ecology and social behavior — both rational and cognitive experience, and even hidden enigmas. The authors suggest how an open and unbiased approach to the landscape enables us to understand and operationalize knowledge and theory into valid proposals and projects for the future — not primarily through the traditional and habitual idea of the architectural object, but rather in contact with a global, collective

Open Call: House In Forest 2020 - Wooden House

Rene Submissions — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 16:50:00 +0000

HOUSE IN FOREST is pleased to announce its 6th annual international design competition: House In Forest 2020 - Wooden House. The competition is designed to challenge and seek the creativity with ideas and concepts in architectural design, as well as landscape design and site planning. The aim of this competition is to promote our ideas of protecting the forest and its environment, as well as focusing on urban design problems, while simultaneously raising awareness of the sustainability.

This year’s competition focuses on wooden houses, an extraordinary architectural style with traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, prefabricated wooden structures or creative

Open Call: House Challenge 2019 - Desert House

Rene Submissions — Thu, 27 Jun 2019 12:40:00 +0000

Registration: Sep 30, 2019
Submission: Oct 1, 2019
Language: English
Location: Worldwide/Concept
Prizes: Cash Prize 1st for $500, 2nd for $300, 3rd for $200
Type: Open/Awards/International

“An idea is salvation by imagination.” - Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect.

HOUSE CHALLENGE is pleased to announce its annual international design competition: House Challenge 2019 - Desert House. The competition is designed to challenge and seek the creation of a temporary dwelling with ideas and concepts in architectural design, landscape design and site planning. The aim of this competition is to promote our ideas of exploring the possibilities for living in harsh environments, as well as simultaneously raising awareness of

Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism

Rene Submissions — Fri, 14 Jun 2019 16:42:00 +0000

urbanHIST welcomes abstracts on the main theme of its second conference: Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism. As an explicitly interdisciplinary project, we encourage submissions from urbanism, planning, and architectural historians; preservationists; geographers; museum curators; and independent
scholars. More information about the suggested tracks for abstracts is available in: www.bth.se/urbanhistconference.

Confirmed Keynote Speakers
Henrieta Moravčíková, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, Slovakia
Luděk Sýkora, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
Sasha Tsenkova, University of Calgary, Canada
Stephen V. Ward, Oxford Brookes University, UK

Submissions
The organizers invite proposals for individual presentations (20 minutes). Please upload your abstract and a short CV on the online submission platform. Abstracts should be

[TRANS-] topia 2019 :: journal call for submissions

Rene Submissions — Thu, 28 Feb 2019 00:55:00 +0000

[TRANS-] topia
across, beyond, through :: critique, fantasy, technology

Designing Change

Rene Submissions — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 01:00:00 +0000

Over the timespan of just one generation the planet’s pace of urbanization has dramatically increased. Through these dynamics and its resulting environmental threats, new challenges have emerged that deeply question the validity of the post-war planning paradigms. Dominant ideologies have been replaced by a problem-solving attitude, increased economic pressure and an urgent quest for evidence. What impact does this have on the work of the urban designer and planner, and how can the profession prepare for the future?

Designing Change tries to answer these and many other questions through in-depth conversations with 12 leading practitioners in the field. Conceived as an

Call for Submissions: AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards

Rene Submissions — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 11:48:00 +0000

The AIANY + ASLANY Transportation + Infrastructure Design Excellence Awards recognize exceptional design by New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania AIA and ASLA members. The awards program is open to registered architects, landscape architects, and planners.

Built and unbuilt projects will be reviewed for their innovative design approaches to transportation and infrastructure. AIANY + ASLANY will recognize projects that reflect a commitment to sustainability, community engagement, and civic architecture.

Students enrolled in and recent graduates (2018 graduation year) of an accredited architecture, landscape architecture, and planning programs are also eligible.

Award Categories
Structures – recognizes design excellence in commissioned and completed buildings, bridges,

Algiers20xx /////// International Ideas Competition

Rene Submissions — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 11:44:00 +0000

/// Algiers20xx
International Ideas Competition
Disruptive[Radical] Urbanism

/// Mentorship
Rem Koolhaas (Netherlands)
/// Support
City/Governor of Algiers (Algeria)
//// Sponsorship
EPAU - École Polytechnique d'Architecture et d'Urbanisme d'Alger (Algeria)

/// International Jury
>> Rem Koolhaas (Mentorship)
>> Fathallah Baghli (Professor in Architecture, Algiers)
>> Saskia Sassen (Robert S. Lynd Professor of Sociology and Co-Chairs The Committee on Global Thought, Columbia University)
>> Jean-Louis Cohen (Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture
Institute of Fine Arts, New York University)
>> Rodolphe el-Khoury (Dean of the University of Miami School of Architecture)
>> Tsouria Kassab (Dean of EPAU, Algiers)
>> Hou Hanru (Director of the MAXXI Museum, Rome)

More inspiring people are joining us!

AURA Summer Academy / Istanbul: Past, Present, Future

Rene Submissions — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:04:00 +0000

Architecture and Urbanism Research Academy (AURA) Istanbul would like to invite you to join its inspiring Summer Academy, "Istanbul: Past, Present, and Future".

The melting pot of east and west, the great city of Istanbul, has been coveted through the ages and was the capital of two glorious empires: the Byzantine and Ottoman. 8,000 years of human occupation at this site has left behind a massive accumulation of architectural legacy for later researchers to discover and analyze.
Join us in Istanbul for a month of comprehensive analysis with lectures from leading experts in the field. Explore the coping mechanisms developed through

Call for entries MEDS Workshop 2018 - DiverCity

Rene Submissions — Tue, 23 Jan 2018 17:58:00 +0000

MEDS workshop “Meetings of Design Students” is an international workshop that takes part each summer in a different country, focusing on various issues, themes, topics and settings that will help any designer expand their expertise. It is a chance to get in touch with diverse approaches to design, different building techniques, traditions and skills. MEDS workshop is both practical and educational because it focuses not only on creative theoretical designs, but actually compels participants to execute these designs during the 2-week span of the workshop. You can apply to MEDS as a tutor or as a participant.

A 21st century approach

Chouteau Greenway International Design Competition

Rene Submissions — Fri, 13 Oct 2017 17:30:00 +0000

Great Rivers Greenway is leading a major public-private partnership to establish the conceptual plan for the Chouteau Greenway in St. Louis through this design competition. The goal of the project is to connect the areas of Washington University and Forest Park to Downtown and the Gateway Arch and Mississippi Riverfront. With spurs north and south and many other destinations along the way, the greenway will connect area neighborhoods, employment centers, parks, transit, and dozens of cultural and educational institutions.

The Chouteau Greenway will be part of the overall network of greenways being built by Great Rivers Greenway and partners. This competition

Archireport: The Site Report App That Has Changed Thousands of Architects' Lives

Rene Submissions — Fri, 15 Sep 2017 01:00:00 +0000

In 2011, Julien, a young entrepreneur, started to build his own house. During the preparation phase, then the construction phase, he realized the difficulties encountered by his general contractor to communicate effectively with the different stakeholders of the project. He told Morgan, his associate, about this problem; in the meantime, Apple unveiled its new iPad 2 with a camera. It wouldn't be long before the idea of a tablet tool grew in their minds: Archireport App.