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Metro Reports: Con-way Block 290, Timberview, Multiple Pathways to Graduation, and more

Next Portland

The new building will have 105 dwelling units and a ground floor commercial space planned as a food hall / restaurant incubator space. Design Review is necessary because the proposal is for exterior alterations in a Design Overlay Zone. w/22-116388-MT *demo separate*. Modification requests [PZC 33.825.040]:1.Reduce

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How to design for adaptive reuse: Don’t reinvent the wheel

BD+C

Before you bring in the demo crew, have a team of structural engineers help you find opportunities to save time, money and headaches. The end result transformed a former Barnes & Noble bookstore into a flexible, efficient and inspiring space named The Zone. Take a multidiscipline approach.

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Being Architect: Lessons from the Past - When Downtown Living Was Brought Back to Stuttgart

Community Architect

It was this international competition which pivoted Stuttgart from demo-happy Mo-town to a promoter of quality of life and urbanity by creating a model for how downtown can, once again, become a place to live, a model for small scale and careful infill and repair, in lieu of Robert Moses style freeways and urban renewal.

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University of Huddersfield presents ten interior design projects

Deezen

This is achieved by abolishing the conventional nine-to-five routine and using a three-space model, which includes zones for work, play and rest with the ability for flexibility and collaboration. The Clique is a members' club and commercial incubator that empowers women in business. Student: Paulina Szczepaniak.