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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion

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Structural engineering solutions for office-to-residential conversion 0 qpurcell Thu, 09/28/2023 - 10:37 Office Buildings IMEG's Edwin Dean, Joe Gulden, and Doug Sweeney, share seven key focuses for structural engineers when planning office-to-residential conversions. RELATED ARTICLE: About 11% of U.S.

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Baldridge Architects converts Austin commercial units into its own studio

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Called Burnet Road Offices, the project involved the adaptive reuse of a small commercial complex along a main street in Austin. Bright white plaster clads the Burnet Road Offices Dating to 1961, the complex, which consists of three semi-connected structures, had served a range of functions over the years.

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Hopson Rodstrom Design creates jagged-roof Los Angeles building with interior courtyard

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Local studio Hopson Rodstrom Design placed a sawtooth roof on top of this black-clad apartment building with an interior courtyard in southern California. Located in West Los Angeles on a busy thoroughfare, the project is called The Jagger – named after the massive sawtooth roof that tops it.

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HGA creates two mass-timber buildings for Bowdoin College in Maine

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Design studio HGA has completed a pair of educational facilities , Mills Hall and Gibbons Center, that are among the first "commercially scaled mass-timber buildings" in the state of Maine. Skylights punctuate the gabled roofs "Gibbons has a more mysterious, introverted quality," said Nat Madison, design principal at HGA.

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SHAU Models Commercial Center DipoMuria After Urban Village Typology

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DipoMuria commercial center in Semarang, Central Java, Indonesia, hosts a photo studio, restaurant, café and retail shop and is modeled after an urban village typology. That resulted in a project which not necessarily has a flashy design sometimes found in commercial projects but more of a minimal approach of cultural architecture.

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Populous, Stantec and S2 Architecture unveil western Canada’s largest convention centre

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Other recently completed convention centres include a sinuous-roofed Yabuli China Entrepreneurs Forum by MAD in Heilongjiang and the subterranean commercial spaces of The Arcade by Superimpose Architecture in Hangzhou, China. The photography is by Tom Harris.

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A Wall of Books Puts the Finishing Touch on This Rough-Hewn Backyard Home in Austin

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Rather than add an addition to the original structure, their plan was a complementary new companion house: a ruggedly modern home capable of coexisting in balance with the existing house, offering the potential for dual occupancy or future use of either building. Have one to share? Post it here.

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