The boat rocked gently as Will Hunter approached the futuristic expanse of Oceanix City, a floating prototype anchored off the coast of South Korea. Designed by the renowned architect Bjarke Ingels in collaboration with the United Nations, this experimental settlement had captured global attention. Climate change and rising sea levels were forcing designers to […]
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The lights of Singapore sparkled like constellations as Will Hunter stepped off the train at Marina Bay Sands. He had come to this futuristic city to explore the promise—and pitfalls—of smart cities. Singapore was often cited as the gold standard, a place where technology and urban design converged seamlessly. But Will wasn’t here to
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Will Hunter sat by the window of a quiet café in Helsinki, sipping strong coffee and gazing at the world outside. The book in his hands, Juhani Pallasmaa’s The Eyes of the Skin, was a slim volume, but its ideas carried the weight of a manifesto. He had discovered the book during a workshop
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The room buzzed with tension as Will Hunter stepped into the debate hall at a university in Copenhagen. The topic was controversial—should cities ban cars? Urban planners, environmentalists, and architects had gathered to discuss what was being hailed as the most transformative question of modern urban design. Will, a curious student of the built
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The neon lights of Times Square buzzed overhead as Will Hunter weaved through the crowd. It was his first visit to New York City, and he carried Rem Koolhaas’s Delirious New York like a sacred text. The book, with its surreal cover and audacious theories, had been an anchor during his urban design class.
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The Pennsylvania countryside stretched before Will Hunter like a patchwork quilt of green and gold. He had taken a detour from a design conference to visit a quiet, wooded site that held significance to one of his heroes—Ian McHarg, the father of ecological planning. With McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature tucked under his
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AI’s Role in Architecture: Will Hunter’s Curious Encounter Will Hunter had never expected to find himself in a sleek, glassy office in Silicon Valley. Yet here he was, invited to explore the cutting edge of architecture at a startup specializing in artificial intelligence. As an architecture student with a penchant for storytelling, Will was
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