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Japanese garden design informs Tokyo real estate office by Flooat

Deezen

Lush plants and gravel beds feature in the Tokyo offices of real estate company Mitsui & Co, which local interior studio Flooat has designed to be "as stress-free as possible". The post Japanese garden design informs Tokyo real estate office by Flooat appeared first on Dezeen. The photography is by Tomooki Kengaku.

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Mark Zuckerberg Tries to Joke About His Underground "Bunker," and Other Celebrity Real Estate News

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Let’s get into these stories, and the rest of our January celebrity real estate news. France and his husband bought a plot of land in Salt Lake City in 2021 and have documented its construction and design for the five-part video series ( watch this one to see the couple design their South Asian–inspired walk-in closet).

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This architect has identified the qualities office buildings need for converting to residential

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Labeled by Fast Company as “Goldilocks” zones, the sweet spot for office buildings with the potential to become residential are ones that are mid-rise, built pre-WWII, with at least two sides facing open areas or streets near, but not within, a city’s financial core.

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Introducing the Meta City

Brandon Donnelly

During the pandemic, there was a lot of erroneous talk about the death of cities. The Meta City combines physical and virtual agglomeration, in seeming defiance of the laws of physics, making it possible to occupy more than one space at the same time. Cities have always responded to and been a product of new mobility technologies.

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Exclusionary zoning cuts both ways

Brandon Donnelly

Here is Wikipedia’s definition of exclusionary zoning: Exclusionary zoning is the use of zoning ordinances to exclude certain types of land uses from a given community, especially to regulate racial and economic diversity. In the United States, exclusionary zoning ordinances are standard in almost all communities.

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Pingyuan New Area Cultural Touristic City Exhibition Center by Zone of Utopia and MFA

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Source by Zone of Utopia and MFA. Presence of Water It is also the continuity of the presence of water and the lake, on which the building seems to float. A metaphoric work of ice cubes transformed to a liquid state creates a pleasant and serene environment. Photo © ArchExist Photo © ArchExist.

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Pingyuan New Area Cultural Touristic City Exhibition Center by Zone of Utopia and MFA

aasarchitecture

Source by Zone of Utopia and MFA. Presence of Water It is also the continuity of the presence of water and the lake, on which the building seems to float. A metaphoric work of ice cubes transformed to a liquid state creates a pleasant and serene environment. Photo © ArchExist Photo © ArchExist.

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