SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The Tate Modern, an example of adaptive reuse (photo by MasterOfHisOwnDomain, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons) This is another in my series of posts inspired by 1000 Awesome Things , the Webby Award-winning blog written by Neil Pasricha. An excellent recent example is the new headquarters of Skylab Architecture in Portland.

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Architecture Here and There

APRIL 15, 2024

Below is the foreward to Léon Krier’s book The Architecture of Community (2009), which I posted on my blog in 2020. Human scale, as we now discover when too many of our built environs have lost it, is an unrenounceable attribute of civilization, not an obsolete luxury. Drawing by Leon Krier.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

The benefits of strategic multifamily housing repositioning 0 dbarista Thu, 09/21/2023 - 13:12 MFPRO+ Blog With the rapid increase in new multifamily housing developments, owners of existing assets face increasing competition. This can lead to a diminished environmental impact for the community for years, possibly even decades, to come.

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EntreArchitect

MAY 9, 2021

The CAD monkey (and degrees and training based on those skills) will soon become obsolete. His blog, Saved By Design has received over 100,000 hits in the last few years. Photo by Franki Chamaki on Unsplash. By Duo Dickinson, FAIA. It is now a cliché to declare that Artificial Intelligence will change everything, but it will.

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Archmark

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

This doesn’t include firms that had no presence at all, or had a website that was non-functioning due to hosting issues or obsolete technology. While we’ve covered some of those details in many blog articles —and we will definitely cover it more in future articles—the main purpose of this article is to cover the primary elements of your site.

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Archmark

AUGUST 2, 2021

This doesn’t include firms that had no presence at all, or had a website that was non-functioning due to hosting issues or obsolete technology. Yes, you read that correctly, a full 75% of the firms we evaluated failed to meet the basic standards for an effective website for architects.

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Community Architect

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

However, they are precisely those who should matter most today, since they are what fills the vacant and obsolete former office buildings and are downtown's best chance for a prosperous future. Downtown residents, the type of user class that was noticeably absent in the downtowns of the 1960's beg to differ.

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