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Fulton River District In Line For Another Skyscraper

Chicago Architecture

The new plan is from Vornado , the company that used to sell me rust-colored corduroy dungarees when I was a child, but is now a billion-dollar real estate developer. This is significantly smaller than the maximums that City Council approved for this space back in June of 2020, so the design does not need any further approval.

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What Role Do Architects Play In The Global Housing Crisis?

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Browse the Architizer Jobs Board and apply for architecture and design positions at some of the world's best firms. As a result, the housing market has become one of the leading pillars of our capitalist economy; with its potentially huge profit margins, land and real estate are being hoarded globally by the wealthy.

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Superblock: Still far from Take-Off

Community Architect Daily

This time the team was more local, consisting of four different firms known from other projects in Baltimore: Landmark as the developer for the redevelopment of what used to be the a gay club on Charles and Biddle Streets in historic Mt. Mayson Dixon website) The Superblock team received a land disposition agreement in late December of 2020.

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Revolutionizing Urban Living: MicroPolis Offers Affordable Housing Solutions in NYC’s Empty Spaces

Architizer

Esther Sperber: MicroPolis is a response to a February 2020 court case that revoked the building permit for the top 20 floors of a Manhattan luxury condominium because it used gerrymandering-style tax lot assembly tactics to justify the request for a very tall building. NYC’s real estate exposes the city’s socio-economic inequities.

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The Butterfly Effect

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Between 2015 and 2020, the garden served as a quiet memorial. Designed by Diane Jones Allen, FASLA, the founder of DesignJones LLC and the director of the landscape architecture program at the University of Texas, Arlington, with the local firm DERU Landscape Architecture, the new garden provides a refreshed space to hold Tamir’s memory.

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MBM House, Montreal, Quebec

e-architect

This meant incorporating these architectural features into the design of the new windows and doors, while obtaining the necessary permits. With its heritage status, the design of the house required several elevation studies and many exchanges with the authorities and manufacturers to obtain the numerous building permits.

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When office-to-residential conversion works

BD+C

That may be why Philadelphia converted more units from office to residential than any other major US city in 2020 and 2021, according to a report by RentCafé (followed by DC, with New York rounding out the top ten). These older buildings have slimmer profiles as a result, making them more amenable to residential use.