Ideas & Insight

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Lima: Transportation Lifelines

Solangel Fernandez, Director of Estrategia Urbana, and Alessandra Peña from BDP’s Lima office explore the challenges associated with planning the world’s largest city without a metro in this Good City insights paper.

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Applied Innovation

As designers, we recognise that the way we work and live must evolve to better suit our current and future needs.

India: Burning Hot!

With a scorching maximum temperature of over 50°C and a minimum of 28°C, Delhi and most of India is burning hot. But it's not just the weather that's heating up—passionate rhetoric and political grandstanding is on the rise as we wrap up the last phase of polling in one of the world’s largest democracies.

The campus of tomorrow

Architect, Dan Walder, describes our collaborative vision for 21st century education estates.

Mass Timber Midrise: Residential Construction for a Low Carbon Future

Wayne McMillan

As part of the ongoing efforts to combat the effects of climate change, the building and construction industry has emerged as a hub of innovation. At a local level, the Toronto Green Standards now impose stricter performance criteria, urging the development community to re-evaluate conventional methods and materials, examine their environmental impacts, and explore alternatives.

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Game Changers

Building Information Modelling as we know it has changed. It has shifted from being an effective alternative to 2D drawing production to a comprehensive tool, driving more data-centric, efficient design methods. As BIM technology becomes more mature, architects, engineers and designers are advocating for its adoption in all kinds of projects.

Reimagining a sustainable future: adaptive reuse in the UAE

As we look to COP28 for a commitment to sustainable practices from the world’s leaders, we showcase how we have repurposed buildings to deliver sustainable spaces that celebrate the UAE's past and drive its future.

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High Density Living - Design Insights from our Global Collective

In this report, we invite members from our global multidisciplinary collective to share their insights on a key design consideration for successful high-density living in their cities, and the value it can bring.

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How do we build 1.5 million homes in the next 10 years?

Demand for housing and low supply are causing home prices to soar. High demand and vacancy rates nearing pre-pandemic lows are driving rents to historic highs. We are in a housing crisis!