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DUBAI OFFICIALS ISSUE ESCALATOR SAFETY NOTICE
Hussain Nasser Lootah, director general of Dubai Municipality, issued a notice urging owners of buildings, shopping centers and markets to take sufficient measures to help prevent passenger injury, especially of children, The Gulf Today reports. Suggestions included covering the upper and lower conveyor belt areas to prevent children from climbing on the units or getting their clothes stuck. The notice pointed out all elevators, escalators and moving walks must have current certificates of examination and be in compliance with safety requirements of the Emirates International Accreditation Centre. It was also urged that violations be reported.
SPIRALING GREENERY FOR FIRST SKYSCRAPER IN TOULOUSE
What will be the first skyscraper in Toulouse, France, will have a silver façade with a wide swath of foliage spiraling from top to bottom, designboom reports. One of a pair of Daniel Libeskind-designed structures planned in France by Compagnie de Phalsbourg, the competition-winning Toulouse project will stand 150 m or approximately 40 stories with 11,000 m2 of office space, a hotel, more than 100 apartments, retail and a restaurant. Located in the heart of the business district and designed in conjunction with Francois Cardete, what is being called Occitanie will have offices for railway company SNCF on the ground floor. Completion is anticipated in 2022.
L.A. ENVISIONS DRAMATIC CIVIC CENTER REVAMP
The Los Angeles City Council approved a Civic Center redevelopment plan that entails replacing the 1950s-era, Welton Becket-designed midrise headquarters of the L.A. Police Department with a 27-story, 450-ft. tall office building for city employees, Urbanize L.A. reports. Construction of this phase of the project is expected to take place between 2018 and 2020, and key elements of the Becket design, such as a mural and sculpture, will be preserved. More than 5,500 city employees working out of leased spaced will be consolidated within the tower's 1.2 million sq. ft. The entire plan involves new and reconfigured infrastructure, and will take place over 15 years.
MIXED-USE TOWER RISING IN NYC’S FINANCIAL DISTRICT
Construction on a 23-story tower that will contain 31 condominiums, ground-level retail and offices on the second through fourth floors has reached the ground floor at 1 Beekman Street on the corner of Park Row in the Financial District of New York City (NYC), New York YIMBY reports. Urban Muse is the developer and Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners is the design architect with SLCE as the executive architect. Completion is expected in early 2018.
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