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Carbon emission legislation prompts commercial real estate to innovate

BD+C

and other areas, the commercial real estate industry has implemented innovations to boost sustainability. Modular construction has aided construction firms in using less energy on work sites and reducing waste. In response to legislation in New York City, California, Washington, D.C.,

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Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Fawcett Farm lists for $4.25M in California's Central Valley

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Real estate firm Crosby Doe Associates recently listed Wright’s Fawcett Farm in Los Banos for a cool $4.25 The lot it sits on is sized at 76 acres and offers the opportunity for commercial crop development on what Fawcett described to Wright at the time as “the most fertile agricultural land in the world.”

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Why Is the Real Estate Market Booming in the UAE?

The Architecture Designs

During the second quarter of 2022, the UAE real estate market is standing firm on its ground. Despite the global headwinds and rising inflation concerns of the world government, the UAE real estate market has shown little to no effects. Well, most of the credit can be given to the pandemic of 2020.

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Penn Station redevelopment: New York State cancels office component in reverse of direction

Archinect

New York officials are calling on design firms, engineers and architects to draw up a plan for a new Penn Station design that keeps both commuters and the community in mind. [.] In a dramatic about-face, the governor announced plans to redevelop Penn Station without touching the neighborhood surrounding it.

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PLP Architecture teases concept metaverse design for upcoming 5,000-piece NFT collection

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The cadre of high-design firms creating on-demand virtual architecture in the metaverse has grown recently with the announcement of PLP’s upcoming 5,000-piece NFT skyscraper collection, which they debuted earlier last month with help from VerseProp, a virtual property platform.

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Creating real estate value with commercial office reconstruction [AIA course]

BD+C

The commercial office sector shows few signs of slowing down. According to a 2017 end-of-year survey from real estate firm Transwestern, fourth-quarter vacancy rates in the U.S. landed at 11.5%, the lowest in 10 years, even as average asking rents continue to rise.

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HKS releases design for "one of the largest" Black-owned real estate projects in Hollywood

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CMNTY Culture Campus will be one of the largest Black-owned real estate projects in Hollywood. It was important to keep the building lower at the corner to reflect the scale of neighboring commercial buildings and open up views to the Hollywood Hills," said HKS. HKS was founded in Dallas, Texas, in 1939 by Harwood K Smith.