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New York architecture firms and designers including Snøhetta, Selldorf Architects and Joe Doucet are participating in the city’s climate strike today, joining a wave of industry figures partaking in cities around the world. Architecture firm Gensler and fashion designer Eileen Fisher are also supporting the Global Climate Strike today on 20 September in New York City,

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Stanton Williams, Grimshaw and dRMMM are three of many UK architecture practices taking to the streets to protest political inaction over climate change in today’s Global Climate Strike. The Climate Strike is a movement spearheaded by schoolchildren protesting the lack of action over climate change by refusing to go to school on Fridays. “Our Civilisation

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The American Institute of Architects has released a five-point action plan for climate change after announcing it a “critical issue” for the architecture profession. The AIA unveiled the Where We Stand: Climate Action plan on Monday 16 September following the release of its initiative to drive climate action on 5 September. “This is a defining

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Founding Archigram members Peter Cook and Dennis Crompton will create a digital installation exploring the future of cities at the Design Trust Gala 2019 in Hong Kong. The installation will draw from the influential British architecture collective’s extensive archive investigating urban design, which was acquired by M+ Museum in Hong Kong in March 2019. Cook

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American architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien have been named architecture laureates for the Japan Art Association’s 2019 Praemium Imperiale awards. Awarded annually, the Praemium Imperiale recognises artists who have made a “major international impact” in the fields of architecture, sculpture, music, painting and theatre or film. Williams and Tsien are best known for projects

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Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani will speak at Dezeen Day on 30 October about future materials and designing without plastic. The French architect and director of Mamou-Mani Architects will take part in a discussion about post-plastic materials. Based in London, Mamou-Mani specialises in digital fabrication, parametric design and advanced bioplastics. He designed the spectacular timber Temple Galaxia

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