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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NidZvaQQrsA The Brazilian architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha died on Sunday at the age of 92 years old, following a battle with lung cancer. Credited for modernising the built landscape of Brazil and inspiring a generation of future architects, Mendes da Rocha achieved late international renown despite working almost exclusively in São Paulo. Mendes da Rocha graduated from the Mackenzie Presbyterian...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kmzc8QHALA4 Back in 2014, the designer Thomas Heatherwick unveiled plans for a floating island park at Pier 55 on the Hudson River. Conceived as a 'treasure island' with an undulating topography, dense foliage, and public spaces for performance, the artificial island would replace the dilapidated Pier 55 and adjacent Pier 54, where the RMS Carpathia once docked carrying the survivors...

By the turn of the twentieth century, the Turtle Bay neighbourhood on the east side of Midtown Manhattan was a 'riverside back yard' for the city of New York. Imposing brownstones and squalid tenement housing butted up against the breweries, gasworks, and slaughterhouses which lined the waterfront. Eventually the waterfront would be reshaped by the United Nations headquarters, with dozens of diplomatic missions...