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  • Laura Cowan
  • 08/12/2022

Architects De Matos Ryan have transformed the last remaining pub in a UK village to be sustainable with a full renovation of guest rooms and the inn's historic pub. The architects added 12 guest bedrooms and fully renovated The Alice Hawthorn's entire operation. The village of Nun Monkton was a medieval trade...

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Architecture

Lakeview Village will create an entirely green community

  • Laura Cowan
  • 08/12/2022

Sustainable housing developments that prioritize giving back more than we take from the earth are everyone's dream, right? Lakeview Village is a new development in Canada that is attempting this feat with a mixed-use waterfront community on 177 acres of waterfront land west of Toronto. Lakeview sits...

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The problem and solution of food deserts in the US

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 08/12/2022

For many people living in marginalized neighborhoods in the U.S., it’s a long trek to a store with a decent produce department. Instead of making a salad or steaming veggies, they wind up making do with nearby fast food or junk food. A lot of terminology has popped up around this lack of access to fresh...

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News

Palm Springs Aerial Tramway shuts down due to monsoons

  • Bonface Landi
  • 08/11/2022

The Palm Springs Aerial Tramway in California is scheduled to reopen on Monday after the facility was shut down by a heavy storm, leaving over 200 people stranded. Officials have said that they will be carrying out extra cleanup efforts, pushing the reopening date to Monday contrary to the expectations of the...

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Virginia will soon have the US' largest offshore wind farm

  • Teresa Bergen
  • 08/11/2022

Virginia is about the get the biggest wind farm in the U.S. The state has just agreed to let Dominion Energy build a 176-turbine wind farm 27 miles off Virginia Beach’s coast. By 2026, the project plans to be generating sufficient power to provide for the needs of up to 660,000 homes. “Our customers...

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  • An outside terrace area connected to a gray school
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Nature is the teacher at this language school in China

  • KC Morgan
  • 08/11/2022

The Nanshan Foreign Language School is an elementary and middle school campus that contains a library, a gym, classrooms, an auditorium, an indoor swimming pool, faculty dormitory facilities, playgrounds and dining halls. It has taken a decade to redevelop this part of Shenzhen, transforming a tightly-packed urban...

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  • Teresa Bergen
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