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April 9th, 2018 Resilient by Design Selects Islais Creek Port of San Francisco: Islais Creek, spilling out into the Southern Bay by Pier 80, was nominated by the Port and City of San Francisco and...

April 9th, 2018 Architects designed these floating villages that would withstand flooding in the Bay Area Business Insider: Like most US coastal regions, the San Francisco Bay Area is under threat from rising seas. To make matters worse, researchers...

March 30th, 2018 In-Depth: Can Houston Apply New York’s Big Thinking On Flood Projects? Houston Public Media: The impact of Hurricane Harvey served as a catalyst to rethink how Houston lives with flooding.

March 30th, 2018 Community board considers flood barrier park for Manhattan’s east side This week, Manhattan Community Board Three heard testimony regarding the East Side Coastal Resiliency Project (ESCR), a proposal to prevent...

March 26th, 2018 This is how high NYC’s sea levels will rise if we don’t take climate action Inhabitat: Rising sea levels, precipitated by climate change, threaten to overwhelm the world’s cities if we do nothing — that’s the message Studio...

March 22nd, 2018 Green design of buildings and communities creates healthier, sustainable living environments Mississippi Business Journal: “Green design” in architecture is far more than a buzz word or a fad. It is increasingly just the way things are done...

March 13th, 2018 The Long Road To Storm Resiliency: Working On Sandy Recovery Patch: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy in 2012, which caused billions of dollars in damage to the East Coast, the federal government made a decision...

February 22nd, 2018 Boulder barrels: Water brings communities and planners together in Colorado Zilient.org: Revered for its natural beauty, the city of Boulder in the United States is a popular destination for those looking to enjoy the great...

February 20th, 2018 Team of Architects, Engineers, Designers, and Urban Planners to Design Coastal Resilience for Bridg Nasdaq: WSP (TSX:WSP), Arcadis (EURONEXT:ARCAD), Waggonner & Ball, and Yale Urban Design Workshop today announced their selection to design...

January 31st, 2018 HASSELL+ and MVRDV tackle climate change in the Bay Area Inhabitat: A HASSELL+-led design team that includes MVRDV has unveiled their preliminary proposed design strategy for tackling climate change in...

January 18th, 2018 BIG unveils scheme to protect San Francisco creek from flooding Dezeen: Danish firm BIG has developed a proposal to protect a creek in San Francisco Bay from flooding caused by climate change, which includes...

January 16th, 2018 Raised stepping stones allow Dutch bridge to remain accessible during a flood Dezeen: Rising water levels don't cause many problems for this bridge in the Dutch city of Nijmegen – it can still be accessed even when the path...

January 11th, 2018 Design competition tackles sites around Bay Area to address rising waters San Francisco Chronicle: Channelized creeks opened up so that sediment can spill into the bay and bring marshes back to life. Landscaped waterways...

January 11th, 2018 5 Bergen towns to benefit from DEP Meadowlands flooding plan North Jersey: A plan to protect five towns in the Meadowlands region from chronic flooding has reached its final stages and could begin...

December 20th, 2017 Confronting the Climate Crisis and Preventing Natural Disasters WYPR: 2017 is looking to be a record setting year when it comes to natural disasters in the United States. Climate change and a growing population...

December 12th, 2017 Island Offers Places for Unique Climate Solutions Alameda Sun: Several Alameda locations have been nominated to be part of a study that aims to provide unique solutions to locations most vulnerable...

November 22nd, 2017 6 Ideas To Transform The Bay Area And Stall The Climate Apocalypse Co.design: Unfortunately, it usually takes a natural disaster to remind cities how vulnerable they are–and how urgent long-range resiliency...

November 16th, 2017 Racing Rising Seas in the Bay Area: Design Teams ‘Float’ Some Big Ideas KQED: After months of study, ten carefully-picked design teams are unveiling their first ideas for giving the Bay Area a makeover to cope with...

November 15th, 2017 Meet SCAPE, the architects designing urban landscapes to stand the test of time Curbed: Growing up in the forests of Delaware, Gena Wirth, a design principal at SCAPE, spent her days building forts and collecting sticks. Wirth...

November 2nd, 2017 Oyster-tecture 99% Invisible: Standing on the sidewalk in Manhattan’s financial district in the shadows of glass skyscrapers, it is easy to forget how close you...

November 1st, 2017 As Houston rebuilds, we need amenities, not eyesores Houston Chronicle: As Houston rebuilds, we need amenities, not eyesores

November 1st, 2017 Five Years After Hurricane Sandy, New Yorkers Reflect on the Storm’s Legacy Metropolis: This week marks five years since Hurricane Sandy, one of the most devastating storms in U.S. history, made landfall. As it rolled over...

October 30th, 2017 Can the Bay Area Design Its Way Out Of Sea Level Rise? Bay Nature: Last month, as Hurricane Irma was bearing down on Florida, a crowd of international designers, scientists, and policy-makers gathered...

October 26th, 2017 Feds to Fund Massive Flood-Control Project for Hoboken, Nearby Towns NJ Spotlight: Nearly five years to the day after Hurricane Sandy inundated Hoboken, the city got word from the federal government that it was...

October 23rd, 2017 2017 Innovation Conference in NYC Demonstrates How Design Makes a Difference ARCHITECTURAL RECORD: Cathleen McGuigan, the editor-in-chief of Architectural Record, started the event, titled The Future of Architecture and the...

October 16th, 2017 This Groundbreaking Landscape Architect is Changing the Way We Think About Coastlines Coastal Living: Meet Kate Orff, a landscape visionary who is working to help communities and coastlines cope with the devastating effects of...

October 3rd, 2017 Where is the Assistance for Those Hit by Hurricane Maria? NRDC: Our nation has been rocked by three catastrophic hurricanes over the past five weeks. This rash of disasters has taxed the nation’s capacity...

September 17th, 2017 Harvey Recovery Czar Faces Limits to ‘Future-Proofing’ Texas The Washington Post: AUSTIN, Texas — The man tasked with overseeing Texas’ Hurricane Harvey rebuilding efforts sees his job as “future-proofing”...

September 14th, 2017 Competition Looks At Redesign for S.F. Bay As Sea Levels Rises San Francisco Chronicle: Bay Area residents know how hard it is to get a full sense of the large and constantly shifting shoreline that frames the...

September 12th, 2017 U.S. Pavilion Announces Design Teams For 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale Archpaper: Seven design teams have been selected to represent the United States in the U.S. Pavilion at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. The...

September 10th, 2017 10 Teams Selected to Map Bay Area’s Response to Rising Sea Levels San Francisco Chronicle: With sea level rise expected to become a pressing threat here within decades, 10 design teams have been selected to map...

September 6th, 2017 Lessons From Hurricane Sandy Has NY on Firm Footing Against Storms Real Estate Weekly: Fresh of Hurricane Harvey, days away from Irma and five years after New York was battered by its own Hurricane Sandy, the real...

September 1st, 2017 Elaborate Projects Planned to Stop Another Sandy FOX 5 NEWS - After Superstorm Sandy hit, a handful of groups were tasked with creating ways to protect communities in and around New York against...

August 30th, 2017 What the Dutch Can Teach the World About Managing Floods CBC: The hurricane that has devastated Texas and Louisiana — and the catastrophic flooding in Sierra Leone and South East Asia — serve as sobering...

August 23rd, 2017 There's a Huge, Overlooked Economic Threat to New York City Business Insider: Like most American cities that border an ocean, New York City is at risk for flooding due to sea level rise. Sea level rise not...

July 27th, 2017 Walls Won't Save Our Cities From Rising Seas. Here's What Will NBC News: 'Green' approaches may be the best way to protect coastal communities from flooding associated with climate change.

June 8th, 2017 Experts: Cities Must Think Differently About Resilience Planning GovTech.com: Resilience planning means a lot of things to different communities. In San Francisco, a panel of infrastructure and design experts...

June 2nd, 2017 Designing for Disaster, Before It Happens: Resilient by Design Seeks Architects Archinect: Disasters resulting from climate change, such as sea level rise, often cause billions of dollars of damage. In an era when the United...

June 1st, 2017 Resilient by Design Launches Bay Area Challenge Metropolitan Transportation Commission: Resilient by Design | Bay Area Challenge, an innovative new approach to prepare the Bay Area for the...

May 30th, 2017 Global Design Challenge Sets Sights on Adapting Bay Area Infrastructure SF Business Times: Resilient by Design is an open call for multidisciplinary teams comprised of architects, engineers, designers and other experts...

May 30th, 2017 Design Teams Compete for Best Solution to Sea-Level Conundrum SF Chronicle: An ambitious design competition that seeks to make the Bay Area a model for how to prepare for sea-level rise kicks off this week. ...

April 17th, 2017 Rebuild by Design’s Enduring Legacy Architect Magazine: How enlightened political thinking inspired this post-Sandy design competition—and the lessons the new administration could...

March 24th, 2017 Riding the Wave: Units in Water Track Data for Living Breakwaters Project SI Live: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- The Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler, more commonly known as the ADCP, is a key part of the Living Breakwaters...

March 23rd, 2017 Living Breakwaters Project: Can It Protect Us From Future Storms? SI Advance: STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- When Hurricane Sandy hit the borough in October 2012, it took the lives of 24 Staten Islanders, demolishing...

February 17th, 2017 Demystifying HUD Fast Company: It's the "meat and potatoes" of cities and towns. It's also deeply misunderstood.

February 4th, 2017 Bay Area: Resilient By Design Challenge Tackles Climate Change When the Government Won’t Impact Design Hub: In response to President Trump’s resolve to ignore climate change and any policies that could help lessen the effects of global...

January 27th, 2017 A New Competition Tackles Climate Change In The Bay Area Facts Coexist: The Bay Area: Resilient By Design Challenge looks for ways to get the city ready for a future where climate disasters are more common.

January 25th, 2017 The Rockefeller Foundation Grants $4.6M to Bay Area Leaders to Tackle Climate Change Mass Transit Magazine: The Rockefeller Foundation recently announced a $4.6 million grant to a coalition of Bay Area leaders to create the Bay Area...

January 25th, 2017 Rockefeller Foundation Awards $4.6-million to Fight Sea Level Rise in Bay Area The Architects Newspaper: This week, the Rockefeller Foundation awarded $4.6 million to the Bay Area: Resilient by Design Challenge team, a...

January 24th, 2017 Bolstering the Bay Area Against Climate Change Impacts Route Fifty: The Bay Area in California just got its own urban resilience design challenge, with The Rockefeller Foundation on Monday granting...

January 23rd, 2017 New Design Competition Aims to Tackle Bay Area Resilience Next City: A contest inviting designers, policy-makers and developers to imagine climate change solutions for the San Francisco area will open for...

January 22nd, 2017 Rockefeller Funds San Francisco Design Challenge Commercial Property Executive: The Rockefeller Foundation just threw its support behind the San Francisco Bay Area. The organization recently...

January 22nd, 2017 Lab Explores Projects to Lessen Effects of Sea Level Rise on SF Bay SF Chronicle: The Bay Area will soon be a laboratory that tests how urban regions can prepare for the likelihood of sea level rise. That’s the aim...

January 18th, 2017 How a Design Competition Changed the US Approach to Disaster Response The Guardian: Ten years ago, New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg released a plan to create what he called “the first environmentally sustainable...

December 12th, 2016 C40 Inclusive Cities Through its Inclusive Cities programme, C40 seeks to build the evidence base for the benefits of climate action and identify opportunities to...

December 7th, 2016 What’s new with the BIG U? ArchPaper: Four years after Hurricane Sandy, New York City is one major step closer to flood-proofing its shores. The Mayor’s Office of Recovery...

November 30th, 2016 A Progress Report from the Cutting Edge of Resilient Design American Society of Landscape Architects: “We don’t know what resilience policy will look like in the new administration. There are lots of...

November 23rd, 2016 Rising Reality: Bay Area's Answer to Sea Level Rise SF Chronicle: The levee that rings Oakland International Airport seemingly has nothing in common with the salt-crusted stretch of flat land...

November 17th, 2016 Learning From Resilient Design Projects in the Wake of Superstorm Sandy Route Fifty: A new report spearheaded by the Georgetown Climate Center explores the funding, legal and land-use barriers to local resilience...

November 15th, 2016 Analysis of Six Regional Resiliency Projects Details Implementation Challenges Politico: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, several federally sponsored projects sought to usher in new modes of urban design that protected against...

October 30th, 2016 Hoboken Hosts Workshop to Help Residents Understand Building Options Hudson Reporter: Mayor Dawn Zimmer, along with a city planner and a floodplain expert, presented ways to lower residents’ flood insurance and...

October 25th, 2016 Want to Survive Climate Change? You’ll Need a Good Community Wired: In the summer of 1995, a blistering heat wave settled over Chicago for three days. It killed 739 people, making it one of the most...

October 25th, 2016 How the Government Engaged the Public to Help Rebuild After Sandy Watchblog: As the fourth anniversary of superstorm Sandy draws near, let’s take a look at one of the unique ways the government responded to this...

October 23rd, 2016 Can the Dryline Save New York? | CityLab 2016 Citylab: Bjarke Ingles, Founding Partner at BIG, discusses the BIG U and the role of the Dryline in achieving a more resilient coastline. Dedicated...

September 13th, 2016 Rebuild By Design Chooses A Way Forward Jersey Digs: The $230 million Rebuild By Design project, which aims to curb flooding in parts of Hoboken, Weehawken and Jersey City,

September 9th, 2016 Rebuild by Design Team Announces a Preferred Alternative The Hudson Reporter: In a presentation Thursday night, Sept. 8, the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) and the city of Hoboken announced...

August 24th, 2016 Improving Plans for Mill River Long Island Herald: At the second meeting to discuss the Rebuild by Design program to make Mill River more storm-resilient...

August 3rd, 2016 At Home In a Changing Climate: Strategies For Adapating to Sea Level Rise Archinect: For most of us, ‘home’ conjures a sense of safety and security. But a home is a fragile thing: vulnerable to quaking ground, rushing...

July 28th, 2016 Rebuild and BIG U Featured in July/August Issue of Dwell Magazine Dwell: As countries across the globe mobilize to address pressing issues for a growing population, we examine the nation of the “smart city” on a...

July 13th, 2016 Why Rebuild by Design Succeeds 100 Resilient Cities: What makes Rebuild by Design succeed? Rebuild by Design was launched by U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) as a multi...

July 5th, 2016 Can New York Be Saved in the Era of Global Warming? Rolling Stone: It’s a bright spring day in New York, with sunlight dancing on the East River and robins singing Broadway tunes.

June 30th, 2016 Public Meeting Scheduled to Discuss Flood-Control Construction in Meadowlands NorthJersey.com: The recipient of $150 million in federal, disaster-relief grants, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP)...

June 29th, 2016 The Living Breakwaters at Conference House Park, a Project of Ambitious Regenerative Proportions 3BL: On the first of June—one of those rare days invoked by the American poet James Russell Lowell—we met our advisor and Patagonia’s long-time...

June 17th, 2016 How Flood Walls Would Work in Hoboken The Hudson Reporter: Roughly 100 residents came to a public meeting on Tuesday to talk about three possible anti-flooding proposals for Hoboken...

June 13th, 2016 Visualizing The Living Breakwaters at Conference House Park The Field Guide: On the first of June—one of those rare days invoked by the American poet James Russell Lowell—we met our advisor and Patagonia’s...

June 7th, 2016 Green Revolution: Turning New York Into Noah’s Ark Industry Leaders: As a part of an initiative to revive parts of the coast hit by Hurricane Sandy in 2012, BIG and Dutch firm ‘One Architecture’ co...

June 6th, 2016 Crucial Updates On New York–Area Coastal Resiliency Projects, Two Years In The Architects Newspaper: On Friday, Rebuild By Design (RBD) hosted a conference at NYU to check in on the progress on the region’s ten coastal...

June 5th, 2016 Clean Energy Vital In a World of Worsening Drought and Floods ENCA: Imagine a world that’s run out of fresh water. A world where it’s so hot, crops can no longer grow.

June 2nd, 2016 Checking In With Sandy-Inspired Rebuild by Design NewsWorks: Following Superstorm Sandy, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Shaun Donovan launched a design competition.

June 1st, 2016 The US Government is Spending Nearly $1bn On Six Projects to Protect Greater New York From Floods City Metric: In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy hit the north eastern United States.

May 31st, 2016 Rising Reality The San Francisco Chronicle: Fifty years ago, Bay Area residents rallied around the call to save San Francisco Bay. Public action on an...

May 30th, 2016 Climate Change is Rewiring Government-Citizen Relationships Newsweek: “The United States doesn’t have a good history with urban projects,” says architect Matthijs Bouw.

May 26th, 2016 The Urbanist: Water The Monocle: On this week’s Monocle Podcast, we look at water-sensitive urban design, unpack our relationship with the ocean, discover the joys of...

May 13th, 2016 Video: Experts on the Challenges of Climate Change Adaptation Carbon Brief: Scientists, policymakers and businesspeople convened in Rotterdam this week for the Adaptation Futures 2016 conference

May 2nd, 2016 A Community-Minded Approach to Resilience in Berkeley City Lab: Berkeley, California, is a small city facing some large-scale challenges.

April 12th, 2016 Constructive conflict: can design competitions make cities stronger? The Guardian: Just as musicians can build their year around festival appearances, architects can now fill their calendar with deadlines for design...

April 8th, 2016 Is the tide against Hoboken’s flood plan subsiding? NJ.com: Consultants and local and state officials pushing for a $230 million federally funded plan to resist Hurricane Sandy-like flooding

April 1st, 2016 How will planners design Hoboken’s flood protection? Give your input at April workshops The Hudson Reporter: What will Hoboken’s flood protection look like? Planners expect to make renderings public by June but residents first need to...

March 10th, 2016 Building Resilient Cities Washington Monthly: In October 2012, Hurricane Sandy rampaged through the East Coast, bringing 80-mile-an-hour winds that destroyed homes, downed...

March 4th, 2016 Remaking New York City in the wake of climate change Al Jazeera: After Hurricane Sandy, the city’s plans to mitigate future disaster have underscored its social and economic inequities.

February 22nd, 2016 Design Contest Leaders Seek Disaster-Minded Urban Planners Politico New York: Read a featured article about Resilience by Design University (RBD U).

February 21st, 2016 Goodbye floodwalls, hello barriers? Hudson Reporter: Hoboken officials and engineers met with the public on Thursday, Feb. 18 and unveiled three new plans to protect the city

February 12th, 2016 Hoboken Flood Meeting Scheduled: Rebuild By Design Plan Nears Completion The Patch: It’s down to three choices, Hoboken.

February 11th, 2016 Hoboken State of the City: Zimmer Speaks The Patch: Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer gave the annual State of the City address on Wednesday.

February 6th, 2016 Build cities that work with nature not against it SciDev.Net: Listen to Henk Ovink featured on this week’s podcast.

January 28th, 2016 Here’s an idea: Prepare for natural disaster, don’t respond CNN: Listen to Henk Ovink, who is harnessing the Netherlands’ long-built-up knowledge managing water.

January 22nd, 2016 Gov. Malloy, Congressional Delegation Announce $54 Million Federal Grant for Storm Resiliency in CT. HUD: Governor Dannel P. Malloy today joined Connecticut Department of Housing (DOH) Commissioner Evonne M. Klein and members of the state’s...

January 21st, 2016 U.S. Awards $281 Million to New York Region for Hurricane Protection The New York Times: Federal housing officials will award about $281 million to the New York region, including the states of Connecticut and New...

January 21st, 2016 HUD AWARDS $1 BILLION THROUGH NATIONAL DISASTER RESILIENCE COMPETITION HUD: Today, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Julián Castro and the Rockefeller Foundation announced the winners of...

January 19th, 2016 Lower Manhattan Will Get $176M To Arm Itself Against Storms Curbed: Lower Manhattan will receive $176 million in funds for flood protection, the New York Times reports. While the specifics of what this...

January 18th, 2016 New York City to Get $176 Million From U.S. for Storm Protections From The New York Times: New York City may soon be one step closer to building a new flood protection system around Lower Manhattan to guard...

January 14th, 2016 Massive East River storm barrier will also be a cool new park TimeOut NewYork: After Superstorm Sandy hit in 2012, all kind of ideas were bandied about to combat future fallout from major meteorological mayhem...

January 13th, 2016 The Next Big Public Space: ‘The Dryline’ The Observer: When you hear the phrase “East Side Coastal Resiliency Project,” your first thought probably isn’t “That sounds like a cool place to...

December 15th, 2015 New York’s Big Climate Plan Really Does Include Oysters The Atlantic, City Lab: Tottenville, on Staten Island, will get oyster-friendly breakwaters and a dune system as part of post-Sandy rebuilding...

December 13th, 2015 Where should the seawalls go? Engineers discuss five ways to fend off flooding Hudson Reporter: One woman looked visibly flustered at a presentation this week of various ways Hoboken can handle storm surges and flooding. “I’m...

December 7th, 2015 Have your say on final concept for $230 million flood protection project Hudson Reporter: Share your thoughts about how Hoboken, and neighboring coastal cities, should protect themselves from future storm surges and...

November 10th, 2015 Rebuild By Design, Developing Disaster Resilience Through Competition US Builders Review: In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, Rebuild By Design was started in 2013 as new type of design competition.

November 2nd, 2015 Latest News in Landscape Architecture 2015 Landscape Architecture: While the 20th century was driven by magnanimous architecture, the 21st century is shaping up to be more landscape-centric...

October 30th, 2015 Superstorm Sandy turns 3; plans for Hoboken microgrid among chief initiatives Hudson Reporter: Three years ago on Oct. 29, Superstorm Sandy wreaked havoc in Hoboken. 500 million gallons of water flooded the streets and 90...

October 29th, 2015 In Ongoing Response to Hurricane Sandy, We Must Remain Focused on Climate Change’s Long-Term Impacts The White House: Three years ago today, Hurricane Sandy made landfall on the Northeast, devastating countless homes, businesses, and communities...

October 28th, 2015 Greater Collaboration and Coordination in Crises The New York Times: After Hurricane Sandy crippled the New York City region, leaving wounds that still remain, the Department of Housing and Urban...

October 27th, 2015 Is New York Ready for Another Sandy? The New Yorker: Hurricane Patricia, which hit southwestern Mexico last weekend, was the largest recorded hurricane to make landfall off the...

October 26th, 2015 Innovations in Resilience along the Water’s Edge The Magazine of the Urban Land Institute: With sea levels rising and catastrophic storms and flooding becoming more frequent and severe, waterfront...

October 20th, 2015 Why ‘By Design’? Rockefeller Foundation Blog: Cities around the world face new challenges every day, a reality being exacerbated by climate change: droughts last...

October 14th, 2015 REBUILD RESET The Architects Newspaper: Rebuild by Design moves ahead as local and state governments allocate funds and issue RFPs.

October 11th, 2015 Better safe than ‘Sandy’ The Hudson Reporter: Are we ready for future storms now?

October 9th, 2015 Rebuild awarded “Most Groundbreaking Federal Challenge or Prize Competition” Rebuild By Design: First-Ever Federal Honor for Contributions to Developing Innovative & Cost Effective Solutions to Resilience Challenges Awarded...

October 5th, 2015 Designing Water: Creative Minds Rethink Resiliency – SXSW Eco 2015 SXSW Eco 2015: Listen to Amy Chester, Daniel Pittman, Gia Biagi, and Rob Moore discuss resilience. We strive to prevent the worst impacts of...

March 3rd, 2015 Rebuild at the Danish Architecture Centre Danish Architecture Centre: Rebuild's Managing Director Amy Chester speaks at the Danish Architecture Centre about Urban Resilience.

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