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A rare chance to get the Sydney’s waterfront right – smh.com.au

Whether called Barangaroo, East Darling Harbour or the historically evocative Hungry Mile, the site is Sydney’s greatest opportunity in a century to rethink the relationship between the city and harbour.

Read more @ the SOURCE: smh.com.au – A rare chance to get the city’s waterfront right

Focus on medium-priced housing, says property consultancy – Thanh Nien Daily

Property company CB Richard Ellis Vietnam Thursday urged developers to shift the focus to smaller and more affordable apartments, saying end users are expected to make up the largest ratio of buyers this year.

“For now, speculators have left the market,” Nguyen Thai Nguyen, a deputy director at the Ho Chi Minh City-based unit of CB Richard Ellis Group Inc, said.

Read more @ the SOURCE: Vietnam latest news – Thanh Nien Daily.

Planning should ‘steer away from cars’ – The Dominion Post

We should be thinking about re-organising our cities, suburbs, and the way we live, to become less dependent on the car, an architect says.

To facilitate this, the vast sums currently spent on roads, water and drainage should instead be used to redevelop towns and cities so people can live more sustainably, Johann Bernhardt says.

Building a Greener America

Forget the common icons of global warming. Fuming tailpipes and industrial smokestacks, it turns out, are less culpable for climate change than a set of offenders hidden in plain sight: buildings.

Read more @ the SOURCE: Business Week – Building a Greener America.

London offers its memorial to the 52 victims of 7/7 terrorism – Times Online

Ben Hoyle of the Times looks at the newly unvealed design for the 7/7 memorial

The design unveiled yesterday by the architects Carmody Groarke is on a more human scale than the American and Spanish projects. It consists of 52 steel columns, one for each innocent life lost, arranged in a clearing at the southeast corner of Hyde Park. Each column stands 3m (about 10ft) tall, weighs about a tonne and is cast from stainless steel in a process that ensures that each one is subtly different from the others.