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How to Make a Facade with Recycled Materials: 16 Notable Examples With the aim of supporting architects to become active agents of sustainable design, this week we present a selection of facades...

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Nepal's "Vertical University" Will Include 6 Campuses In 5 Climatic Regions to Teach About Climate Change With campuses from Koshi Tappu at 67 meters above sea level to Mt Kanchenjunga, the Vertical University designed by KTK-BELT is a unique teaching environment.

Great Pacific Garbage Patch Is Now Twice the Size of Texas and It's Rapidly Getting Worse | The Weather Channel The monstrous garbage patch consists of 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic and weighs roughly 88,000 tons.

"Public spaces are both an end and a means to an end, a sculpture worth displaying, and a slab of marble that will be carved anew by the interaction of whatever assortment of people pass through it each day. When authentically rendered, they present a powerful tool for society that should be appreciated, protected, put to work, and stretched with new ideas and inputs. Now is the time to stop taking them for granted. The ultimate responsibility to build community and to sustain democracy belongs to each of us individually—we should challenge ourselves to make time to be the public who occupy these spaces and define their course."

Where in our cities can we identify and save our public spaces?



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Awareness of the Importance of Public Spaces is Increasing—Here's How We Can Capitalize On It The public awareness of how crucial public spaces are to building community and guiding democracy is increasing. But what is it that makes a good public space?

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UNStudio Founder Launches Startup for Shaping Human-Focused Smart Cities UNStudio have launched a new technology-driven startup named UNSense, exploring the possibilities of smart technology to improve human-centric urban design.

Deforestation is one of the lead causes for climate change.
Make a change and discourage all forms of it.

We challenged 16 of the world’s largest brands to prove they weren’t buying palm oil from forest destroyers.

Half of the brands have come clean about where they get their palm oil from. Half of them haven’t: Ferrero, Hershey, Kellogg's, Kraft Heinz, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Smucker's and PZCussons >> http://act.gp/2poZoHG

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Four Years After Declaring War on Pollution, China Is Winning Research gives estimates on the longer lives that are now possible in the country.

Your tourist snaps can help preserve threatened heritage sites for the future Hand over your travel photos and help build digital 3D recreations of threatened heritage sites.

China Spends $2 Million On Innovative Smog-Sucking Technology This is a huge step forward in solving China's air pollution problem.

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Sharing the City: 5 Takes on How We Should Create and Use Public Space At reSITE's My City / Your City salon in Berlin, 5 panelists discussed the meaning of sharing the city and what that means for the creation of public space.

What is Architecture without photographs?

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The 50 Most Popular Architecture Photographs of 2017 At ArchDaily, we're lucky enough to know a fantastic network of architecture professionals, allowing us to share the world's best architecture with...

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM THE UNICON TEAM!

Murree Mall Road Restoration Under way.

Rauf and Sons, a historical building on a historical street. We are excited to see our hard work pay off in Murree's facade lifting project. Next time you visit Murree, have a look at the buildings, floor designs, and public spaces. Feast your eyes on a nostalgic past come to life.

You can replace your car.
You can replace your shirt.
You can replace your phone.
You cannot replace your Planet.
Climate change is real & the time to act is now.

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We are lucky to be in a country where development of cities is still in its early stages. We have a fresh slate in so many areas. We should aim to make model cities that lower carbon emission, are self sustainable, give more power to the pedestrian and incorporate nature in its design.

Tianjin Eco-City / Surbana Urban Planning Group We spotted this new super green city development model over on Inhabitat that will support 350,000 residents in Tianjin. The model places a strong...

CEO, Pervaiz Qureshi working with Babar Mumtaz and Reza Ali on our latest master planning project.

Our CEO and director Parvez Latif Qureshi was an honored guest and panelist at the 8th ICMR 2017 at Superior University on 9th November 2017. To discuss the importance of entrepreneurship and managment in educational institutions.

We got some rain, but our 5th season, aka, smog, should be an eye opener for all of us to protect our environment through better living practices and city development

Enjoying the winter in our cozy Studio annex.

Hard at work with our Fort Munro Master Planning to make it into an eco-tourist destination

Lahore - the city of Gardens is a tag line we grew up with. Our city was always known to be green and clean.
Today, it's a dusty mess with extensive pollution and congestion.

As responsible citizens, we must conserve our city's original beauty and reclaim our forest cover. Be a city of gardens.

With our cities getting more and more congested, maybe we need an alternative plan that celebrates the citizen and not the car.



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6 Cities That Have Transformed Their Highways Into Urban Parks Building a highway in a city is often thought of as a solution to traffic congestion. However, the induced demand theory has shown that when drivers...

"Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/URBANA’s Friendship Centre in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, seems like a project that is not so much built up in the landscape, but carved out of it. A labyrinth of arches, courtyards, pavilions, and pools, all carefully crafted from handmade bricks, define the space of a facility for a charitable organization—Friendship NGO—who work with remote communities with limited opportunities"

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Hélène Binet Captures Kashef Chowdhury's Aga-Khan-Winning Friendship Centre in Bangladesh The landscape and light qualities of Kashef Mahboob Chowdhury/URBANA’s Friendship Centre in Gaibandha, Bangladesh, are photographed by Hélène Binet.

Sneak peak into our design studio.
Keep watching this space for updates on our ongoing projects and our willingness to test ideas out on the drawing board! We love to doodle and watch our ideas unfold as we collaborate with our clients. You will never see us without our pencils!

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

Given the state of our atmosphere today with the onset of winter and thick smog covering our cities, here is a must-read that compiles articles written in this past year about cities and their future.

According to Paolera: "Following the most varied directions in their research, urban planners around the world have come to the conclusion that it is necessary to recover the air, sun and vegetation in modern cities. Even the most opposing urbanistic theories and achievements agree with the ultimate goal, which is to ensure the intimate union of the city with the inhabited land, giving wide openness to nature among the inert masses of urban construction."

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World Urbanism Day: A Selection of Texts About Cities and Urban Planning Today, November 8, we celebrate World Urbanism Day. Created in 1949 by Carlos Maria della Paolera, a professor at the University of Buenos Aires, the...

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