Architecture Ideas

APRIL 11, 2024

This figure highlights the enduring market prevalence of sustainable construction materials and the consumers’ expanding preference for eco-conscious building options. So, what exactly are sustainable construction materials, and why should you use them for your home construction?

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Deezen

APRIL 1, 2024

While an absence of central government funding means public-sector-led house-building to meet that need is a rarity in the US, Montgomery's county government has conceived a way to deliver high-quality homes on its own. Like much of the rest of the country, it is in dire need of more affordable housing.

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Deezen

APRIL 4, 2024

Having only become government policy in 2016, Taiwan expects to have amassed a social-housing stock of 200,000 units by the end of 2024 – and has already set an ambition to hit one million units by 2032. Development is mostly funded by city governments, with additional support from central government.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Construction could begin in 2025 According to the newspaper The Korea Economic Daily , Hanam is planning to open a 900,000 square-metre K-Star World that could include the spherical music venue. billion), a third of which would be financed by Sphere's owner MSG Company. If built, the project would mark the first Sphere in Asia.

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Architecture Ideas

JULY 27, 2023

Modular buildings are the future of construction. Many industries are turning to them over traditional construction methods due to their wide range of benefits. The first documented prefabricated building was constructed in 1837 in London. However, despite their popularity, temporary buildings are not without their challenges.

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BD+C

MARCH 13, 2024

Trends to watch shaping the future of ESG 0 qpurcell Wed, 03/13/2024 - 09:46 Sustainability Gensler’s Climate Action & Sustainability Services Leaders Anthony Brower, Juliette Morgan, and Kirsten Ritchie discuss trends shaping the future of environmental, social, and governance (ESG). Kirsten Ritchie: In the U.S.,

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Dwell

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The Federal Housing Administration has announced expanded financing options for "granny flats" that are meant to make a dent in the affordable housing crisis. But this week, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced new policies that expand mortgage financing options for dwellings that have, or will include, an ADU.

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BD+C

MARCH 5, 2020

The French government unveiled plans for a sustainability law that will ensure all new public buildings are built from at least 50% timber or other natural materials. It will apply to all public buildings financed by the French state. The mandate will apply to buildings constructed for the 2024 Paris Olympics complex.

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Westeck News

JANUARY 5, 2024

government announced a Standardized Housing Design Project this fall, with the goal of streamlining permitting processes and building more homes faster. Constructing new homes and buildings that emit less carbon and meet higher standards for energy efficiency is both a necessity and a catalyst for positive change.

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Deezen

MAY 5, 2023

Read: Everything you need to know about Saudi mega-project Neom "All six individuals have been charged under the overly vague 2017 Saudi law on combating crimes of terrorism and its financing," they continued.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

To do this, we need the next government to set out a national retrofit strategy – a well-funded, long-term plan to make homes more energy efficient and climate resilient. Training will be required to upskill the construction workforce across the country to carry out the work efficiently and effectively.

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aasarchitecture

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

UNStudio recently teamed up with Arup and local firm Heerim Architecture to create a vision proposal for the new Peace Park Wheel, a landmark project initiated by the Seoul Metropolitan Government for Sangam World Cup Park in Seoul. The Seoul Metropolitan Government recently unveiled UNStudio’s design, tentatively naming it ‘Seoul Twin Eye’.

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Brandon Donnelly

JUNE 3, 2023

Ratcheting down or eliminating development charges (and other government levies) on larger suites is one of them. A lot of this has to do with construction costs and other unavoidable diseconomies of scale, but there are other things we can do. Should there be another financing solution for larger homes?

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aasarchitecture

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The Government of Albania has received financing from the World Bank toward the cost of the Project for Integrated Urban and Tourism Development (PIUTD), and intends to apply part of the proceeds for consulting services.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The legislation incorporates 13 of the transportation, water, and natural resource policy recommendations sent by ASLA’s Government Affairs team to the leaders of congressional transportation and infrastructure committees and the Biden–Harris administration. Planning and capital construction grants will be available.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Just recently, Freddie Mac updated their ADU financing options and CalHFA extended their ADU Grant Program to help even more homeowners build backyard homes. While the Senate voted to pass the law, it will need to be re-reviewed by the Committee on Governance and Finance before it can be passed into law. No Group R Change.

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BD+C

JUNE 26, 2014

Construction on the European Patent Office building in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, started today with a foundation-stone laying ceremony. With around 861,000 square-feet and a budget of €205 million self-financed by the EPO, it will be one of the biggest office construction sites ever in the Netherlands until its completion in 2017.

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Brandon Donnelly

JUNE 21, 2023

Now, the premise of Jeremy’s tweet storm is that non-owner-occupied housing is bad and that the government should be doing more to discourage this. The lender requirement to pre-sell suites in order to obtain construction financing means that developers rely heavily on buyers who are willing to purchase many many years before occupancy.

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BD+C

APRIL 19, 2013

In each issue of Building Design+Construction , we feature the latest new construction and renovation projects in our On the Drawing Board section. They include Adrian Smith and Gordon Gill''s whimsical Dancing Dragons tower in Seoul and a 1,312-foot-tall finance and trade center under construction in Nanning, China.

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Deezen

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

However, the sector's level of decarbonisation actually decreased last year, according to the Global Status Report for Buildings and Construction , as efforts to improve buildings' energy efficiency were outpaced by increases in their floor area and energy demand. And therefore, you've got the case for financing.".

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BD+C

DECEMBER 14, 2023

What’s next in terms of trends, technology, and construction of affordable housing? What’s next in terms of trends, technology, construction? What are some emerging trends in terms of how affordable housing is designed and constructed? Construction. Where is it taking place? Who’s doing it?” Design Matters.

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Community Architect Daily

JUNE 24, 2023

Moore wasted no time and got straight to his message: Governor Moore announcing Red Line restart (Photo Philipsen) This is a day that we’ve spent weeks planning for – A day my partners and I in government have spent months preparing for And a day that many Marylanders have spent years hoping for. How to construct and finance the line?

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e-architect

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

What do the FCA’s proposed new rules to tackle greenwashing mean for the construction sector? For the construction sector, this means that architects, planners and developers offering green projects and developments must ensure that their marketing and consumer-facing disclosures meet certain criteria in order to be valid for customers.

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e-architect

JANUARY 18, 2022

Cityzenith Digital Twin for Las Vegas, Nevada Buildings Construction, Architectural Software USA. Also, we have new partners that provide risk-free, no money down financing to building owners for green building retrofit projects. The Digital Twin Consortium is a global ecosystem comprising industry, government, and academia.

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Brandon Donnelly

APRIL 1, 2023

Cost escalation: construction, interest rates, DCs, HST 3. Take-out financing availability 5. In my opinion, two obvious line items to focus on are development charges (as well as the other government levies) and HST (our harmonized sales tax). So feasibility has gotten even more challenging. Upfront equity requirements 2.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JULY 16, 2023

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. Internal access to a bathroom. This temporary Urgency Ordinance will be replaced by a regular ordinance update at some point in 2023.

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Dwell

JUNE 26, 2022

On the supply side, the Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corporation develops and finances low- and moderate-income housing projects. It manages an affordable housing fund and grants developers exemptions to certain planning, zoning, and construction rules if a majority of a project’s units are affordable.

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Santa Cruz Architect

MARCH 19, 2024

This legislation, signed into law on September 16, 2021, aims to address the state’s housing crisis by providing homeowners with a streamlined process to subdivide their urban single-family residential lots and construct additional residential units. Estimates suggest a need for 3.5

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Architizer

AUGUST 2, 2023

At the very beginning of the film, the narrator notes that the documentary will not critique the social problems that emerged in the high rise council houses constructed in the 1960s — a familiar tale for UK viewers — but rather the scandal of their shoddy construction. What emerges is a story about incentives.

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Dwell

DECEMBER 1, 2022

So we started to do a lot more incremental construction, rather than building whole houses, and do a lot more through financing. Most of the financing isn’t direct A to B; we made a big bet on microfinancing, in particular. But what role does Habitat have as an advocate for broader economic and political change? In the U.S.,

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BD+C

JUNE 30, 2014

Construction on the European Patent Office building in Rijswijk, the Netherlands, started last week with a foundation-stone laying ceremony. With around 80,000 sm and a budget of €205 million self-financed by the EPO, it will be one of the biggest office construction sites ever in the Netherlands until its completion in 2017.

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Community Architect Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

High cost to construct housing, an ever shrinking pool of public housing and rent restricted housing where more units fall out of the restrictions than come into it on average, red tape, "redlining" and the fear of density. Fewer businesses mean fewer jobs and less revenue for the state and local governments. The causes are multiple.

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Portland Architecture

AUGUST 3, 2022

The idea behind it is to eliminate the concept of NIMBYism: that you engage citizens as the third leg of a local government and private developer stool, so that they co-create the vision and the steps to implementation for change in any given place. There’s a movement afoot to change Portland’s system of government. So what can we do?

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The Architecture Designs

MAY 18, 2022

In order for new residential builds to really harness their power generating potential, there needs to be a level of inclusion provided in their very design to maximize the potential of that construction in harnessing the sun. It’s a fact of life that most governments and companies are still profit-driven. What solar demands.

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The Architecture Designs

JANUARY 23, 2023

Moreover, the construction of a skyscraper is a complex process that involves overcoming a wide range of technical and logistical challenges, from designing a structure that can withstand high winds and earthquakes to figuring out how to transport materials and equipment to the top of a building. Its construction will complete by 2023.

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Dwell

AUGUST 1, 2023

The problem of America’s legacy public housing—the million-odd units built by the federal government between the end of the Second World and the early 1970s—represents one of the most challenging issues facing the country’s affordable housing future. Photo by Leticia Barboza / Courtesy New York City Housing Authority.

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BD+C

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Legislation that allowed local governments to direct excess property tax dollars from tax-increment financing districts into other private developments was supposed to kick-start construction hiring in Minnesota, but an examination found evidence of job creation was spotty at best, even as many companies cashed in on the new law. ( [link] ).

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