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This California Prefab Builder’s Website Lets You Visualize an ADU on Your Property

Dwell

When California began relaxing regulations surrounding accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in 2016 , James Connolly wanted to help lower the cost of living in the San Francisco Bay Area by adding housing stock. So in 2019 he founded Villa, a prefab builder that could handle everything from fabrication, to permitting, to installation.

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Who Gets to Use the Beach?

Dwell

There are a lot of bad actors on this front, but two you’ve likely heard of are tech billionaires Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, who, in 2016, built a wall around their Kauai estate they purchased at the dismay of locals , greatly diminishing access to a stretch of pristine coastline once easily enjoyed by the public.

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More dishing on Brad Pitt

Architecture Here and There

Experimental houses built by Brad Pitt’s Make It Right foundation. Pitt formed a foundation called Make It Right to build 150 affordable, ecologically sustainable houses. The foundation could not create groovy new houses with shape-bending features and then sell them for a mere $150,000. Flicker/Commons).

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Budget Breakdown: A Dilapidated Desert House Springs Back to Life for $165K

Dwell

He and his family live in Los Angeles and love spending time in Palm Springs, so in 2016, he began looking for fixer-uppers in that area. "I I found a house and renovated the interiors," he says. "I I enjoyed that so much that the next year I decided I wanted to do another one—but this time I was fascinated by the desert landscape." $350

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Moholy-Nagy: Hitler’s Revenge

Architecture Here and There

Here, responding to a email thread on classical architecture and racism in which her essay is invoked, is my post from 2016 about Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and “Hitler’s Revenge.” No other profession has permitted such an indignity to be perpetrated against it. Hitler’s revenge indeed!

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Serpentine Pavilion 2023, London

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Additionally, we have used pre-cast concrete pads for the second year in a row, which lowers the total amount of carbon embodied in the project and permits reuse of same foundation when the Pavilion is rebuilt in its permanent position.” Rogers was an integral part of the Serpentine Pavilion team and served as an Advisor since 2017.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

Toole received his bachelor’s of architecture degree from the University of Oregon in 2008, and his master’s in urban design from the Harvard Graduate School of Design in 2016, with a year-long research grant at the Technical University of Berlin in between.

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