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MVRDV 's design for a new campus for Chinese technology firm Tencent is, in reality, an urban district in which for employees to live, work ... More

The long-proposed US$3.8bn (€3.4bn, £2.9bn) theme park at Hwaseong, 45km (30mi) from South Korea's capital Seoul, looks set to definitely go ahead, after the country's ... More

Google's sister company Sidewalk Labs has reached a conditional agreement with Waterfront Toronto for the planned smart neighbourhood development on the city's eastern waterfront. Sidewalk ... More

Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) have been selected to design Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoe – a mixed-used development and "satellite city" in the westernmost reaches of Moscow. The planned ... More

The World Architecture Festival (WAF) is marking its tenth anniversary by publishing a manifesto that identifies the key challenges architects face in the next decade. ... More

Here are some of the stories that appeared on CLAD this week, from a ski slope on a ski slope in France to Zaha Hadid's ... More

Danish studio 3XN Architects have triumphed in an international design competition for a sweeping cultural complex and Smart City district in Wallonia, Belgium. Located in ... More

The UK government has published draft legislation for its planned sugar tax on soft drinks, with revenue from the levy being used in programmes to ... More

Design and technology consultancy Hirsch & Mann are set to transform everyday pedestrian crossings into playful multi-sensory experiences after winning the 2016 Playable City Award. ... More

The US city of Chicago is installing “fitness trackers” on lamp posts and to the sides of buildings in a bid to improve both the ... More

You’ve probably seen it, large groups of people wandering seemingly aimlessly around your city or town, heads buried in their phone with a vacant expression ... More

French studio Manuelle Gautrand Architecture and Australian firms DesignInc and Lacoste + Stevenson have been unanimously chosen by Parramatta City Council to design a six-storey ... More

Celebrity chef and food campaigner Jamie Oliver has thrown his support behind a new wellbeing initiative that will see a voluntary tax placed on sugar. ... More

The Amsterdam ArenA, home to Dutch football club AFC Ajax, has signed a deal with the Municipality of Amsterdam in order to help secure the ... More