What it means to embrace equity for women in architecture and construction

8 MARCH 2023 – This year, International Women’s Day is carrying the tagline of Embrace Equity. Beyond equality, or giving the same opportunities for all, equity asks stakeholders to take a deeper look at specific needs that can level the field for disenfranchised groups of society. Many women in architecture and construction are facing multiple […]

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How former industrial sites can be enlivened: Common Landscape exhibition of Atelier Deshaus’s projects

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6 MARCH 2023 – China is a country that has experienced rapid urbanisation since the 1990s, with residential settlements often displacing industrial facilities that have grown out of relevance. Many such ‘relics’ are seen as waste and faces the possibility of demolition—an act that releases massive amounts of carbon to the atmosphere. But there is […]

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The way forward: A recap of COP27 commitments for climate adaptation and mitigation

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22 NOVEMBER 2022 – The 27th Conference of the Parties (COP27) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) concluded last week, but it was no easy feat—the discussions reportedly exceeded over 36 hours past its scheduled end on Friday, 18 November. Participating countries were able to reach a “breakthrough agreement” to provide […]

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World Green Building Council launches a guide to climate change resilience

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2 NOVEMBER 2022 – Changing climate patterns and increased severity/frequency of extreme weather events are affecting people around the world. As an example, Jorge Chapa, Head of Market Transformation, Green Building Council Australia (GBCA) said: “In Australia, many of the communities who fought bushfires in 2019 are today inundated with floods. The climate is changing, […]

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World Architecture Day 2022: Can architects bridge the inequality gap?

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3 OCTOBER 2022 – The first Monday in October is commemorated as World Architecture Day—established by the International Union of Architects to coincide every year with United Nations’ World Habitat Day. This is meant to drive home the point that the practice of architecture is interlinked with habitats, manmade and natural. The theme for World […]

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Managing interlinkages and advancing SDGs in landscape architecture

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16 JUNE 2022 – As the climate crisis escalates with floods and abnormal heat waves around the world, landscape architects are taking action to limit planetary warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius in line with the Paris Agreement. The profession of landscape architecture deals with complex, interactive systems—be it natural or manmade—and seeks holistic interventions to […]

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Building for Everyone puts people back at the heart of the built environment

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8 JUNE 2022 — “Four billion people are vulnerable today to impacts of climate change, and the World Meteorological Organisation reports we have a 50 per cent chance of breaching 1.5°C of warming over the next five years … right now, the energy and cost of living crisis is already disproportionately affecting our societies’ most […]

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