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Masdar city, Abu Dhabi     dev | Masdar city Magran city, Sudan     dev | new Sudan ?

Will Masdar City be the most ambitious sustainable development in the world today - will it be the world’s first zero carbon city ?

The ultimate vision of Al Sunut Development is to turn this prime land into an alluring and rather enchanting panorama reflecting future Khartoum.

Toren Building
   arch | Toren building. Brooklyn NYC

Brooklyn New York, New York

BFC partners Development company is responsible for the development of the Toren building now being erected on the corner of Flatbush and Myrtle avenues. Marketing material from the Toren sales gallery states that the building is intended to be a 38-story condominium tower containing 240 homes, 45 studios 99 one-bedroom homes, 84 two-bedroom homes, 12 three-bedroom homes, 8 penthouse unites, and additional three bedroom duplex penthouse units. Building Services and Amenities include 24 hour concierge, two level attended parking, fitness center managed by iowa sports, indoor pool, library, outdoor movie theater, and a sauna. The marketing material also states that SOM is the Architect of record for this particular project.


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Blacklines Sustainable Center
   green | Sustainable design approach

Blacklines sustainable design center.

Gain understanding into how to become a leed certified professional, gain leed certification for new construction projects, and become aware of new sustainable design approaches taking place around the globe. In the blacklines sustainable design approach section we will also cover new green technologies relating to other design fields.

Blacklines Tutorials
   tuto| Video Tutorials: Graphics. CAD. BIM.

Blacklines tutorial center

Gain a new skillset or refine your current computer skills with these insightful tutorials. Each lesson will be geared towards helping you become more efficient and introduce you to new techniques to express your ideas and creativity.

   design | SASA Hip Hop Architecture

Brooklyn New York

492 Warren Street is a proposed 4 story residence that is designed by Neb Aketu in the Sasa Hiphop Architecture style. The material and design impetus is the result of studying society and humanosity at the exact moment that culture is created.

The concrete and wood materials have a aurodactic relational function that ties into way a dancer and drummer communicate with one another. The 4th floor is mostly open to the morning sun allowing for light to permeate the entire structure.

Jack Travis' Kalahari of Harlem
   arch | Jack Travis' Kalahari of Harlem
 

Harlem New York, New York

Kalahari is brought to life by an internationally renowned team who have combined their impeccable sense of design with the striking indigenous motif of Sub-Saharan Africa and its people. Beyond the uniquely articulated facade, residents and their guests are welcomed into a luxurious sequence of spaces. The magnificent lobby is both rich and comfortable in its design and furnishing, with elevated ceilings, warm woods and an impressive art collection including the work by the renowned El Anatsui. From here, the Kalahari interior unfolds, classically contemporary, yet distinctly personal in its scale

 
    finance | Retirement     arch | Afri Tower

Providing retirement benefits has not always been easy for the small employer. Filing required documents with the Internal Revenue Service

Find out about The Afri Tower a conceptual super tall tower that Neb Aketu proposed for the city of Johannesburg South Africa.

 

  


 


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