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A Little To The Left

Daily digest: A dire new UN IPCC report, the Het Nieuwe Instituut will get a pink topper, and more

rendering of a floating city with floating housing modules form oceanix
Boat to Busan

Is OCEANIX’s prototype floating city coming to Busan?

a temporary indoor event pavilion at cop26
Glasgow Calling

COP26 kicks off in Glasgow with talks, exhibitions, and a CambridgeSeven-designed Resilience Hub

a row of flags of different nations with panels outside the UN building, and the countryside show
Countryside redux

AMO brings a condensed Countryside to United Nations headquarters in New York

illustration of a housing community in africa built from plastic
Solving Problems with Problems

Norwegian startup Othalo eyes plastic waste recycling to solve the housing crisis

A view of the Pittsburgh skyline at sunset
Pittsburgh's Green Streets

Pittsburgh launches its own International Center of Excellence on High Performance Buildings

Climate Week NYC 2019
Green Scene

What to see during Climate Week NYC 2019

An x-ray of a podium depicting the United Nations seal
Inside Out

Modern Management Methods shines a literal light through the U.N. Headquarters

Screengrab from VICE News documentary of Chinese Uighar kindergarten that's yellow with green and red window frames and blue turrets
Built In Secret

Details emerge on the architecture of China’s Uighur re-education camps

Rendering of an island chain
Will We All Float on Alright?

OCEANIX and BIG unveil a floating city of the future at the United Nations

Photo of Beehive installation of many terra-cotta tubes
Wind Chill

Ancient technology gets an update in sustainable cooling solution

Photo of the Hebron Tomb of the Patriarchs
Just Observing Now

United States withdraws from UNESCO (again)

Grow-Your-Own

Yale University and UN Environment design self-sufficient tiny home

UNESCOrted Out

Trump pulls U.S. out of UNESCO, citing anti-Israel bias

Quito, Ecuador

AN reports on UN-Habitat’s new agenda to change global urban development

Preservation Win

LPC votes to calendar Kevin Roche and John Dinkeloo’s Ambassador Grill and Lobby

William McDonough’s multi-use ICEhouse can be quickly assembled using local materials

Video> Michael Adlerstein & John Gering on retrofitting the United Nations Secretariat Building

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