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Seattle is building more accessory dwellings than single-family houses

Brandon Donnelly

The result is that the city is now permitting close to 1,000 ADUs per year (2022 figure). And for the first time ever, this figure now exceeds the number of permits issued for single-family houses. And since they were launched in September 2020, these plans have been permitted 130 times.

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Together for the Terroir

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Baker says the Glass Fire in 2020 started just up the road from Larkmead and burned in a U shape around the winery. “It One of several design options developed by Ann Baker Landscape Architecture that respond to drought and wildfire regulations and are available for free online. We had a lot of burnt trees on the river.”.

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More Virtuous Circles

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Architecture 2030 estimates that the embodied carbon of materials will account for 72 percent of emissions associated with new construction between now and 2030. But in France, reuse is becoming mainstream, and landscape designers are developing innovative approaches to reuse in new projects and recycling materials that cannot be reused.

Site 95
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LCC Health Professions Building

SW Oregon Architect

Lane County voters passed a general obligation bond in May 2020 to fund the project, as well as assortment of campus-wide improvements addressing classroom needs, safety and accessibility deficiencies, workforce retraining, and Career Technical Education. The second phase of design developed this concept in detail.

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Aviva Studios in Manchester to Open on 18th October 2023

e-architect

Spanning 13,350 square metres, the building offers vast, adaptable spaces that can be constantly reconfigured, enabling artists to develop works of invention and ambition, of a kind not seen anywhere else in the world. A technical grid on the Warehouse ceiling permits any type of use, from concert to exhibition.

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Explorers at Home

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Heller says there were surprises in the site’s geology (bags and bags of pile grout disappeared into holes drilled in the earth), surprises in the pandemic’s disruptions, and surprises in the civil unrest that beset Portland in 2020. million from fees developers pay for new construction. At one point, a heavy snowfall closed the site.

Home 84
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American Icon or Chief Offender?

Community Architect

Seattle’s (WA) estimated share is more than 80%, and San Jose’s (CA) approaches 90%. It often controls for maximum height and putting another factory in wouldn't have been permitted either, but a bar or a car repair shop was ok. allow developers and slumlords to decimate stable neighborhoods. (A Europe has local zoning as well.

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