Resilience

CONVERSATIONS

Looking outside for answers: Post-COVID airport operations

What if the answer to post-COVID-19 airport operational requirements isn’t as extreme as redeveloping terminal space? What if we look outside the terminal to the arrival spaces and forecourts?

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Beyond the Centerline, NYC

Our idea for New York City’s ​‘Beyond the Centerline’ competition takes us to an untamed ribbon of land lost in time.

CONVERSATIONS

Five reasons metro station architecture must be resilient

Our rail infrastructure needs to keep moving, no matter what the world throws at us next.

PODCAST

What can emergencies teach us about design?

The valuable lessons we can take from fires, floods and pandemics.

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Haikou East & Dongzhai Port Mangrove Reserve

The masterplan for the Jiangdong New District in the Chinese tropical island of Hainan restores the coastal water network and preserves China’s largest mangrove forest.

CONVERSATIONS

Wildly in need

Rethinking urban habitat in the age of climate emergency.

CONVERSATIONS

Design for a changing climate – fire and community resilience

Communities in Australia and California share connected experiences as they face climate-related threats, especially fire.

NEWS January 10, 2020

Our response to the Australian bushfires

We’re making a financial donation to support aid efforts in the immediate term through the Australian Red Cross.

Podcasts

Why the best designed cities reflect the best of us

Have we forgotten how to design for love and belonging?

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Shanghai North Bund Waterfront

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Resilient South City, San Francisco

Our collective’s scheme for this ​‘industrial city’ makes it easier to enjoy the creek and bay, reduce the impacts of flooding and build resilience to sea level rise.

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Resilient by Design Challenge, San Francisco

San Francisco is one of the world’s most captivating waterfront cities. It also happens to be one of the most vulnerable to sea level rise.

CONVERSATIONS

The power of speculative design

Designers have a unique type of agency in the face of global challenges.

CONVERSATIONS

Connecting pandas, people and nature

How master planning can support biodiversity by designing for ​‘umbrella species’.

Topics

Super sustainable projects

Climate and biodiversity emergencies are global challenges that demand strong, adaptive responses.