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The Jongno-gu Office announces “the New Jongno-gu Governmental Office Complex Design Competition”. It is an international competition for all licensed architects

Vienna Design Week is Austria's largest curated design festival and has been taking place in Vienna since 2007. Recently it welcomed over 40,000 visitors to around 200 events per year. In 2020 Vienna Design Week will take place from the 25th of September to the 4th of October.

Students of Gedik University Interior Architecture and Environmental Design Department have set up the display of a year-end exhibition as a part of the "Interior Photography" course. It is important that the photographs taken by the students "at home" during the pandemic, became more different and creative at the end of the semester.

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Performance Architecture Online Summer School is an exciting learning journey designed to inspire, broaden and challenge the possibilities of spatial representation and design. Architecture is combined with other disciplines including art, cinematography and performance.

Against the backdrop of the widespread damage caused by the Super Cyclone ‘Amphan’ in May 2020, we are calling the students of architecture, planning and design community to propose design alternatives for a Homestead for a Family in the Sundarbans and rise to the occasion to contribute to the society at large.

This project is a 5A Grade A office building held for lease (partly owner-occupied) to financial organizations as their headquarter. The above grade building floor area is 93700m2. The office building is 82000㎡ and the commercial building above ground is 8000m2. Underground commercial building area 3700㎡. Building height restriction is 220 m. Qianhai Financial Holdings Co., Ltd. and Century Securities Co., Ltd. are the joint owners. The project is located in Qianwan Zone T102-0317 parcel in Nanshan district in Shenzhen, at the junction between Tinghai Avenue and Qianwan 2 RD, close to Qianwan and Menghai metro stations. This project aims to become a financial icon in the Greater Bay Area and a classic financial tower in Qianhai. The total investment of the project will be about RMB 4.856 billion (including land price).

Today, the majority of people in the developed and developing world live either in cities that are the legacy of colonialism, capitalism, and other patriarchal structures, or in landscapes drawn and redrawn by the enterprises of colonial and corporate expansion. Given the magnitude of resources and capital needed to bring architectural design into fruition, the values and objectives of institutional stakeholders will inevitably continue to shape architecture. In other words, the built environment is never apolitical; it is persistently fashioned as a socioeconomic artifact.

MIRA and MASSIVart invite national and international artists to develop a proposal for a permanent public artwork to be located in the public plaza of MIRA’s latest real estate development in Mexico City: Neuchâtel’s Cuadrante Polanco.

The field of Design is defined by the areas where design process can be applied: architecture, urban space, clothing, furniture, consumer products, printed materials, digital interfaces, social structures, websites etc. But design encompasses much more than form and function. Design is not a being, but an event, it is not a thing but an impact.