2021年十大最具创新力的城市发展公司

房地产和城市规划项目背后的投资者和开发商对全球经济的起伏非常敏感，因为他们的工作需要大量的资金、原材料，以及国际供应链协调（更不用说有利的地方政府政策）。2020年前所未有的不稳定将在未来几年产生影响，但它也受到众多具有前瞻性思维的建设者的独创性的影响。从承认被低估的资产到推行创新的建筑技术，几家公司都在表明，远大的想法和长远的眼光将帮助我们渡过未来的不确定性。

Investors and developers behind real estate and city planning projects are highly attuned to the ups and downs of the global economy, since their work requires significant capital, raw materials, and international supply chain coordination （not to mention favorable local-government policies）。 The unprecedented instability of 2020 Will reverberate for years to come, but it’s also being met by the ingenuity of numerous forward-thinking builders. From recognizing undervalued assets to pushing inventive building techniques, several companies are showing that big ideas and long-term vision will help us ride out the uncertainty ahead.

1. STABLEGOLD HOSPITALITY

网站：https://www.stablegoldhospitalityga.com/

为挣扎中的城市编织住房安全网

For knitting together a housing safety net in struggling cities

负担得起的长住酒店可能并不迷人，但它们能容纳全国城市数百名低收入和无收入居民。在乔治亚州和北达科他州的经济困难地区，亚特兰大的Stablegold Hospitality瞄准并修复了其中9处较低端且经常被忽视的商业地产，创造了许多城市难以自行提供的住房安全网，并在这一过程中实现了盈利。在流感大流行期间，该公司与当地各种非营利组织合作，暂时降低（或取消）租金，并为员工设立了一个应急基金。

Affordable extended-stay hotels may not be glamorous, but they accommodate hundreds of low- and no-income residents in cities across the country. By targeting and rehabilitating nine of these lower-end and often overlooked commercial properties in economically challenged areas in Georgia and North Dakota, Atlanta-based Stablegold Hospitality has created the kind of housing safety net many cities struggle to provide on their own, and, it says, turned a profit in the process. During the pandemic, the company, which partners with various local nonprofits, has temporarily reduced （or eliminated） rent and created an emergency fund for its staff.

2. VEEV

网站：https://www.veev.com/

为了减少建设成本和时间

For cutting the cost and timeline of construction

Veev并不是唯一一家利用工厂来制造建筑的公司，它以一种独特的整合方式，将设计、材料供应链、制造和内部施工整合在一起，正在打造一个纯粹高效的利基市场。该公司建造住房的成本只有传统建筑的一半，速度是传统建筑的四倍，圣何塞市在流感大流行期间着手建造紧急住房时就证明了这一点。开发的78个单元不到90天就建成了。

Veev is not the only company using a factory to make buildings, but with a uniquely integrated approach that pulls design, material supply chain, manufacturing, and construction in-house, it’s carving a niche of pure efficiency. The company can build housing at half the cost of traditional construction and four times faster, which it demonstrated when the City of San Jose set out to build emergency housing amid the pandemic. The 78-unit development was built in under 90 days.

3. LAFARGEHOLCIM

链接：https://www.lafargeholcim.com/

创造一种对气候和发展中国家都有利的建筑材料

For creating a building material that’s friendly to both the climate and the developing world

作为世界上最大的建筑材料制造商之一，拉法基豪瑞知道，建筑业造成的碳排放占全球的十分之一以上。为了帮助抵消这种影响，该公司开发了Durabric，一种坚固、价格合理、无需窑烧的碳轻质土砖。马拉维四分之一的人口生活在极度贫困之中，这降低了马拉维的建筑成本，去年开设的两家移动制造厂为马拉维人提供了数百个就业机会。

As one of the world’s biggest manufacturers of building materials, LafargeHolcim knows that construction is responsible for more than a tenth of global carbon emissions. To help counteract this impact, the company developed Durabric, a strong, affordable, and carbon-light earthen brick that requires no kiln firing. It’s bringing down the cost of building in Malawi where a quarter of the population lives in extreme poverty, and two mobile manufacturing plants opened over the last year are providing Malawians hundreds of jobs.

4. HOK

链接：https://www.hok.com/

长期致力于大规模的城市发展

For making a long-term commitment to large-scale urban development

密苏里州圣路易斯的混合用途Cortex创新社区为Square、波音等公司和数十家小型初创企业提供了6000多个就业岗位和9000多个正在进行中的岗位，这证明了大规模规划仍然有效。自2002年以来，霍克一直致力于这一占地200英亩的项目的城市雄心，将一个曾经饱受摧残的工业区变成了一个以生活为中心的工作区和以技术为中心的商业中心，有8栋新建筑，3栋全面翻新，还有几栋新建筑正在开发中。例如，去年，生物科技公司BioSTL的一个新中心在一座历史建筑中开业，这座建筑在1930年代就有一台印刷机。从一开始就计划不仅仅是一个办公公园，Cortex已经经过深思熟虑，与一个中央公共公园交织在这座城市的结构中，多种餐饮选择和自己的轻轨站。

Providing more than 6,000 jobs and another 9,000 on the way for companies like Square, Boeing, and dozens of small startups, the mixed use Cortex Innovation Community in St. Louis, MO, is proof that large-scale planning still works. HOK has championed the urban ambitions of this 200-acre project since 2002, turning a formerly blighted industrial district into a live-work neighborhood and technology-focused business hub, with eight new buildings, three full renovations, and several new buildings under development. Last year, for example, a new hub for biotech company BioSTL opened in a historic building that housed a printing press in the 1930’s. Planned from the start to be more than just an office park, Cortex has been thoughtfully woven into the fabric of this part of the city with a central public park, multiple dining options and its own light rail station.

5. ASCENT REAL ESTATE CAPITAL

链接：https://ascentrealestatecapital.com/

为了保护经济适用房，创造性地

For preserving affordable housing, creatively

这家总部位于夏洛特的投资公司是一家有着大胆愿景的小公司，它率先成立了一个5800万美元的基金，在不断发展的城市里保留1500套经济适用房，同时为投资者提供适度但稳定的回报。通过在中产阶级聚居区购买公寓楼，并利用长期的契约限制来保持租金的可承受性，这一努力正在挽救稀缺的经济适用房。该基金去年12月关闭了第一处房产，甚至还与地方官员合作，将房产税支出转化为对收入仅为当地平均水平30%的人的租金补贴。

A small firm with a bold vision, this Charlotte-based investment company has spearheaded the creation of a $58 million fund to preserve 1,500 units of affordable housing in its growing city while providing investors with modest but consistent returns. By buying up apartment buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods and using long-term deed restrictions to keep rents affordable, the effort is saving scarce affordable housing. The fund closed on its first property in December and has even partnered with local officials to convert property tax payments into rent subsidies for people with incomes as low as 30% of the area average.

6. ICON

链接：https://www.iconbuild.com/

把3D打印变成一种建造方式

For turning 3D printing into a way to build

Icon继续展示其新颖建筑技术的新应用。去年3月，3D公司在奥斯汀一个计划中的永久性经济适用房社区打印了6套400平方英尺的房子。该公司也在利用自己的技术建造更大的市场价格住宅，并与美国宇航局合作，计划有朝一日在月球上建造建筑物。

Icon continues to demonstrate new applications for its novel building technique. Last March, the company 3D-printed six 400-square-foot homes at a planned community of permanently affordable housing in Austin. The company is also flexing its tech to build larger market-rate homes, too, and working with NASA on a project to one day fabricate structures on the moon.

7. RENOVERU

链接：https://www.renoveru.jp/

为了简化日本空置房屋的翻新

For streamlining the renovation of vacant homes in Japan

日本的人口老龄化导致了全国房屋空置问题的猖獗。Renoveru正在以翻新的形式提供解决方案，这一概念在几乎没有转售活动的房地产市场上仍然是一个新概念。为了抵消拆迁带来的浪费，并为空置建筑的再利用提供新的机会，该公司将设计师、建筑公司、贷款提供商以及大部分首次购房者聚集在一起，每年对大约600个项目进行翻新。2020年，Renoveru推出了一种远程施工管理工具，使其设计师能够实时观看视频，以审查和指导承包商的现场工作。

Japan’s aging population is contributing to a rampant problem of vacant homes throughout the country. Renoveru is offering a solution in the form of renovation – a concept that’s still new in a housing market with little resale activity. Offsetting the waste of demolition and opening new opportunities to reuse vacant structures, the company brings together designers, construction companies, loan providers and mostly first-time homebuyers to renovate roughly 600 projects annually. In 2020, Renoveru launched a remote construction management tool, giving its designers real-time video access to review and guide contractors’ work on site.

8. BOKLOK

链接：https://www.boklok.com/

结合人才大规模生产建筑

For combining talents to mass-produce buildings

作为家居用品巨头宜家（Ikea）和建筑巨擘斯卡斯卡（Skanska）的合理后代，博克洛克是一家预制构件入门家居公司，拥有彻底改变建筑大规模生产的影响力和潜力。自90年代末涉足第一批项目以来，该公司已在瑞典、芬兰和挪威为平均收入家庭开发了约11000套住房。2020年，博克洛克进军英国，并于12月签署协议，于2021年在英格兰南部新建1000套住房。

The logical offspring of home furnishings giant Ikea and construction behemoth Skanska, BoKlok is a prefabricated starter-home company with the reach and potential to revolutionize the mass production of buildings. Since dabbling with its first projects in the late ’90s, the company has developed about 11,000 homes for average income families in Sweden, Finland and Norway. In 2020, Boklok expanded into the United Kingdom, and inked a deal in December to build 1,000 new homes in Southern England in 2021.

9. LENDLEASE

链接：https://www.lendlease.com/us/

发展碳中和城区

For developing a carbon-neutral urban district

跨国建筑公司Lendlease在悉尼市中心的Barangaroo区拥有9栋建筑，在过去的一年里，它已经完成了一大片令人惊讶的碳中和的现代高层城市的建设。该项目的关键是每个建筑共享的集中基础设施，从电力到供暖和制冷，再到废物管理。一个超级高效的区域冷却设备通过直接从悉尼港抽取冷水来提供低能耗的空调，从而节省了大量成本。

With nine buildings in the Barangaroo district of central Sydney, multinational construction company Lendlease has completed construction on a chunk of modern high-rise urbanity over the past year that’s surprisingly carbon-neutral. Key to the project is the centralized infrastructure shared by each building, from power to heating and cooling to waste management. A super efficient district cooling plant provides low-energy air conditioning by pulling in cold water directly from Sydney Harbor, resulting in massive savings.

10. PAU

链接：https://pau.studio/

想象一条通往汽车之光之城的路

For envisioning a path to the car-light city

由前纽约市规划局曼哈顿办公室主任Vishaan Chakrabarti领导的建筑和城市设计公司，PAU利用其在纽约的经验，于去年7月提出了一个令人惊讶的可行方案，以过渡到几乎没有汽车的城市环境。该计划以政策和具体建议为基础，展示了如何禁止私人车辆驶离曼哈顿，同时又不让曼哈顿陷入停顿。尽管这个概念仍然是一个建议，但它代表了当今城市所需要的那种聪明而合理的规划。

An architecture and urban design firm charismatically led by Vishaan Chakrabarti, former director of the Manhattan office of the New York Department of City Planning, PAU drew on its NYC experience to create a surprisingly feasible proposal last July for transitioning to a nearly car-free urban environment. Grounded in policy and specific recommendations, the plan shows how to ban private vehicles from Manhattan without grinding the city to a halt. Though still a proposal, the concept represents the kind of clever and reasoned planning that today’s cities need.

本文来自：Fast Company