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How Adaptive Reuse Can Help Solve the Affordability Crisis

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In the war of words, policies and proposals aimed at solving America’s ongoing housing crisis, much of the fighting has centered around the all-important Development Question: whether new construction alone can bring down prices, or whether aggressive regulation is needed to control costs.

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8 Ways Architects Served Up Spectacular Hospitality Spaces in 2022

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The internal temperature is naturally regulated by the homes’ thick stone walls, which have a high thermal capacity, and age-old shading resources such as reeds and climbing plants are utilized throughout. The façades of the buildings are coated in Kourasani, an ecological plaster first devised by the ancient Greeks.

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

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Square House is best described as subtly deconstructive. In this and other projects, Kaijima and the rest of her team at Atelier Bow-Wow are unflagging in their attempt to understand how spaces are actually utilized in the trenches of daily life. Gabriela Etchegaray.