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Fixing on a Tight Budget: Managing Maintenance Costs When Rental Income Drops

The Architecture Designs

Being a landlord comes with its fair share of challenges, especially when you don’t have a lot of spare cash laying around. If you’re looking for practical advice on which tasks to prioritize and how to make repairs on a tight budget, you’re at the right place. What Maintenance Tasks Should Be Prioritized?

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"Social housing has become a matter of enclaves and micro-sites"

Deezen

Once upon a time, everyone knew how to solve a housing crisis, or at least they thought they did. But if you want a particularly good picture of what that solution looked like at its least architect-driven, good places to begin are the south-east London inner suburbs of Charlton and Woolwich. The solution was quantity.

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Architecture Articles: Building Design

e-architect

Difference between carbon neutrality and net zero Mackintosh Building Glasgow School of Art RICS and YouGov survey 2022 Next generation of knowledge work: hybrid workplaces Data-Informed Design for the User Experience at Work The fluid, sustainable future of retail Designing for Extra Care: What Can Covid Teach Us? Do We Need Libraries?

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Grenfell Tower in West London: Fire Inquiry

e-architect

Hackitt Interim Report: Block of Flats Development in North Kensington, British Capital City, England, UK. 24 January 2022. Grenfell Tower Inquiry: “those who created and enabled” deserve most blame. Grenfell Tower Inquiry Update in 2022. The London Fire Brigade’s work was impeded by austerity cuts and privatisation for decades before Grenfell. •

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Rotterdam 2023: Part 2 - Urban Design and Architecture

Community Architect

In a series of articles I will describe my most noteworthy insights and experiences from this trip. Urban Design Surveying the nightly skyline of Rotterdam from my 16th floor hotel window, I realize that I could just as well look at a city in the US, Denver, for example. Part 1 covered transportation.

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How the failed Security Square Mall could become a thriving town center

Community Architect Daily

The Reisterstown branch of the NAAPC is forming a working group to figure out what can and should be done. Mall owners fight each other in court. million sf of development. million sf of development. In short, the 90 acres of the mall represent a very poor use of land. Today the only recognizable retail names left are Macy's and Burlington.

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American Icon or Chief Offender?

Community Architect

However, a second look at the history of zoning reveals, that it, like so much else in US history, isn't nearly as innocent as the lore would have it. A gateway to freedom or to systemic racism? It makes up more than half of all US residential accommodations and in many cities it is written into the code as the right and only form to live.

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