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Oceanwide Plaza, LA's unfinished high-rise graffiti mecca, faces impending sale

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The Chinese owners of the stalled residential, hotel and retail complex towering over Crypto.com Arena have hired real estate brokers to sell the property to buyers who could restart the project after work stopped in 2019. Taggers recently covered its outer walls with graffiti visible from far away.

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Athens Plans to Grow Its Metro Infrastructure by a Third to Reduce Automobile Traffic

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Athens Old Town, Attica/ Greece - 12 28 2019: People walking through the main connection hall of the Syntagma underground metro. As the 15-station new line is estimated to transport 340,000 passengers a day, up to 53,000 cars could be taken off the roads each day.

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Free Webinar: How to Estimate Fees (An Architect’s Guide to Success)

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Hit the button below to sign up for the talk, which will take place at 1pm EST on Wednesday, February 8th : Register for Event → In this free live session, you will learn how to define your project scope, develop a Rough Order of Magnitude of construction cost, and estimate your project hours.

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ADU construction is now outpacing single-family developments in Seattle

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The city granted permits to 988 units last year, and more than 650 were built — not all projects are built during the year they get permitted — outpacing the construction of single houses for the first time As the Seattle Times reports, a change in regulations in 2019 led to the ADU boom locally.

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D.C. steps up office-to-residential conversions in the face of housing shortage

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A 2019 report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments indicated that the area needs to bring online at least 325,000 units before the end of the decade in order to match rising demands , making its estimated 157.9 million square feet of rentable office space a prime target for prospective developers.

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Ennead completes dome rehabilitation for NYC's historic Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

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Costs for the three-year project are estimated to be about $17 million. The new copper dome covers the also incomplete south transept and was originally designed in 1909 by Rafael Guastavino. View this post on Instagram A post shared by St. John the Divine (@stjohndivinenyc)

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San Francisco might tax empty homes to fund affordable housing

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Archinect Feature: For Affordable Housing, The Revolution Will Be Modularized The most recent official study of San Francisco’s housing stock, carried out in 2019, estimated that the city contained over 40,000 vacant homes. According to San Francisco Board of Supervisors member De.

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