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World Congress of Architects UIA 2026 Barcelona
A Holcim Foundation Fellow on Rethinking the Architect's Role
Next Generation's view on curing the Architect's Blues
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Future Tides Film
Hamburg Builds with Water
Rather than hiding behind dikes, HafenCity — Europe's largest inner-city development project — raised its streets by roughly 8 meters above sea level, expanding Hamburg's inner city by 40 percent.
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CityMakers Voices - No.3
Urban Mines and Inventory-Constrained Design
Engineer Brogan MacDonald makes the case for treating existing buildings as material banks and urban mines at the heart of a lower-carbon future.
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Cities as the front line of climate action
London Climate Action Week 2026
Reflections on climate cooperation from London's built environment
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Future Tides Film
How Manchester is Working With Water
Manchester is turning flood risk into a model for nature-based urban resilience.
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CityMakers Voices - No.2
One Neighborhood at a Time
Mexico City architect Loreta Castro Reguera on water, resilience and the neighborhood projects remaking how a city lives with rain.
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C40 Reinventing Cities Competitions
New Reinventing Cities Competitions are Now Open
Competitions open in Bologna, Bilbao, and Belo Horizonte
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Report on the Emerging ChangeMaker (ECM) 2025
Leadership through Interdependence
Enabling the Future of CityMaking
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CityMakers Voices - No.1
CityMakers Voices Përparim Rama
The Mayor of Pristina on why architects belong in politics, and the Holcim Foundation Award winning regeneration project putting Kosovo on the map.
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Future Tides Film
How Rotterdam is Redesigning for Water
Rotterdam has spent decades learning to design with water, turning life below sea level into a model for climate-resilient urban planning.
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Holcim Foundation Awards
20 Years of Sustainable Construction Awards
New publication traces two decades of design innovation through the Holcim Foundation Awards
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