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A4 Spotlight: Accessory Dwelling Units in RI

A4 Architects

Since new ADUs were prohibited, the number of ADUs in general, particularly in rising real estate markets like Newport, constantly decreased until they became anachronistic and relatively rare. The 2018 “Resilient Rhody” plan solidified this commitment, allocating funding for ADU development and relocation assistance.

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Nya Hovås Apartment Building, Gothenburg

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Nya Hovås Apartment Building, Gothenburg Real Estate Development, Swedish Housing Architecture, Images. Due to legal complexities and nimbyism slowing down permitting procedures in central locations, developers have started searching for more peripheral plots. Nya Hovås Apartment Building in Gothenburg. 16 Dec 2021.

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Superblock: Still far from Take-Off

Community Architect Daily

In 2018 BDC issued another RFP and in 2019 BDC selected Westside Partners LLC from the eight proposals that were submitted. Hardship arguments won the day for the demolition permit of the old Eddies in Mount Vernon, a result that caused much CHAP bashing. This route isn't very well defined and leaves a lot of room for interpretation.

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The loss of Sellers Mansion: “All or Nothing “ in Historic Preservation?

Community Architect Daily

Are owners suspect to hope for "hot demolition" or "demolition by neglect" if official demolition won't be permitted. Nor did they envision conditions where the real estate market is so depressed that even the fairly generous historic tax credits can't make up for the cost burden historically accurate rehabilitation brings with it.

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The Butterfly Effect

Landscape Architecture Magazine

The city’s then-commissioner of real estate (and now the commissioner of capital projects), James DeRosa, ensured that the site would remain under the guardianship of Rice. Rice says that the city, as part of her settlement, agreed to give her access to the site in Cudell where Tamir was killed to place a memorial.

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The Rise and Fall of Baltimore's HarborPlace

Community Architect

A public space is meant to be there "in perpetuity" (Baltimore city charter) whereas retail and restaurants have the shortest shelf life in real estate, much shorter than museums or exhibits which are more commonly inserted into public open spaces. Millspaugh brought Rouse to the then mayor died in 2018.

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Architensions places sculptural addition on top of a suburban New York home

Deezen

The project started in 2018, when the owner commissioned Architensions to update his residence in a way that "reflected his adventurous design ambitions". The idea of the commodification of architecture as a real estate asset did not emerge throughout the development of the design.".

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