Copenhagen's once-industrial port has been planned to make everything, from schools and play areas to businesses and recreational spaces, accessible within five minutes
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Why eight Tokyo minutes from office to metro is too long – The city is seeing a boom in commercial construction but labour scarcity has made location a critical concern for companies
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Five months after a devastating fire destroyed more than half of Copenhagen's Old Stock Exchange, workers are set to begin the reconstruction of the 400-year-old building
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Copenhagen and Paris mayors exchange lessons learned after huge fires destroy landmarks
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Fire breaks out at Copenhagen's historic Stock Exchange
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Copenhagen is just one city among many around the world taking a novel approach to prevent repeated flooding. It is becoming a sponge.
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London's BT Tower to be turned into a hotel after £275m sale
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Urban development company Atrium Ljungberg has unveiled plans to construct the world's largest wooden neighbourhood in Stockholm
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The unfathomable scale of the Brussels Palace of Justice
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Why Kyoto prohibits bright colours
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Why Copenhagen put a ski slope on a power plant
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Inside one of Japan's tiniest houses
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This video tells the story of the Nakagin Capsule Tower, its design, construction, life, and ultimate demise
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Is Helsinki city centre's new neighbourhood, Wood City, the future of building? Developers are increasingly swapping out concrete and steel in favour of wood
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The real reason Egypt is moving its capital away from Cairo
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Amsterdam is changing
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Why Paris looks weird
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Copenhagen is great… but it’s not Amsterdam
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The Scandinavian way to zero-carbon construction – cities like Oslo, Helsinki and Copenhagen are working to clean up one of the world's most high-emission industries
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You can help rebuild Notre Dame by sponsoring a statue
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Plans for an artificial island to house 35,000 people and protect the port of Copenhagen from rising sea levels have been approved by Danish MPs
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Facing a housing crunch almost a century ago, Stockholm built 'barnrikehus' for low-income families – today they are some of the city's more sought-after properties
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Cycling through the streets of Amsterdam
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Swedish officials have joined Danish critics in registering concerns that an island-building plan, a signature test of Copenhagen's development model, could have risks
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How Reykjavik's sheet-metal homes beat the Icelandic winter – they may be unorthodox, but the innovative buildings have kept residents warm and dry for more than a century
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Transparent public toilets unveiled in Tokyo parks — but they also offer privacy
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The Tokyo Toilet - Public toilets in seventeen locations in Shibuya will be given unique redesigns by renowned designers and architects
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Amid protests, Norway's government has begun tearing down a landmark building adorned with giant murals by Pablo Picasso
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Paris has a plan to keep cars out after lockdown
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Five Picasso murals in Oslo are at the center of a major controversy – the murals are scheduled to be moved in the name of preservation
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Castle in the clouds: Celebrating the eclectic, DIY designs of Ukraine's status symbol balconies
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How Berlin's Mietskaserne tenements became coveted urban housing
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Why Amsterdam’s canal houses have endured for 300 years
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What’s behind the iconic floor plan of London
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Copenhagen-based firm Henning Larsen Architects has proposed a low-rise neighborhood south of central Copenhagen using all-timber construction
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How Helsinki built book heaven – Finland's most ambitious library is a kind of monument to the Nordic model of civic engagement
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We replaced sixty-eight Tube adverts with cats
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Helsinki's new flagship library Oodi has been voted winner of the 2019 Public Library of the Year award by the IFLA
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Indonesia will build its new capital city in Borneo as Jakarta sinks into the Java Sea
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Indonesia plans to move its capital to the island of Borneo
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Want safe, bikeable streets? Get rid of free parking, as Amsterdam did
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How a new logo saved the city of Oslo $5 million a year
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Paris will create the city's largest gardens around the Eiffel Tower
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In car-choked Brussels, the pedestrians are winning
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Indonesia plans to move its capital out of Jakarta, a city that's sinking
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Indonesia President Joko Widodo plans to move capital city
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A modest proposal to eliminate 11,000 urban parking spots
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Can post-revolution Yerevan get to grips with its informal architecture epidemic?
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Taking back Taksim: Everyday life vs. top-down redevelopment
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