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A4 Spotlight: Accessory Dwelling Units in RI

A4 Architects

The fact that the country was in the midst of the Great Depression and there were essentially no zoning regulations further facilitated the break-up of larger houses into apartments and ADUs. Local zoning regulations often lacked clear guidelines, created uncertainty for homeowners and hindered potential ADU development.

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

BD+C

Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney MFPRO+ Blog High-rise Construction Apartments Office Buildings Engineers Codes Regulations Adaptive Reuse Reconstruction & Renovation Seismic Design Office-to-residential conversion seems like a simple solution to a problem. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units. faces a housing deficit of 3.8

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

These are the 2023 finalists and their proposals: Isabel Abascal: “Mother Architecture: Shaping Birth” Isabel Abascal is a Mexico City–based architect and writer. She will also schedule in-person curated experiences in select cities, including dinner salons, roundtables, panel discussions, and other related events.

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Here Is What COVID-19 Will Do to Architecture and Cities

Community Architect

People with those convictions certainly don't think that architecture or cities will change. Already the NYT is reporting a wave of people fleeing New York City for the suburbs. But memory is short and already we see the removal of protective banking regulations that were designed to prevent a repeat of the financial melt-down.

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Beauty, Ma’am, if you can keep it

Architecture Here and There

Forces are gathering to undo much of the good work done in recent decades to improve the city of Providence. City and state officials are drooling at the gusher of allegedly free federal funds flowing from Washington, hundreds of millions of dollars, and they are falling for the most fiscally unsound schemes to spend the money.

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Update: City of Santa Cruz ADU Regulations

Santa Cruz Architect

The State of California has a recognized housing shortage, with the result that both Sacramento and local municipalities throughout California have made myriad recent changes to the regulations governing ADUs. The City has posted interim guidelines at its website. What is an ADU?

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Trends to watch shaping the future of ESG

BD+C

The social aspect of ESG is less regulated and structured than carbon emissions, and it’s still unclear what precisely it will mean and how it should get reported. financing more socially inclusive projects is often the stickiest issue—particularly if you want to take something that is classified as office and convert it.