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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. Your structural engineers may find that the existing bones present you with a lot of opportunities. This minimizes the need to upgrade and retrofit the structural components.

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Metro Reports: Tiller Terrace, The Josephine, Brooklyn Apartments, and more

Next Portland

¿The applicant also requests to provide approximately 530 square feet of landscaped area, though drawings show only approximately 453.5 square feet of landscaped area, which is less than the 710.5 The standard requires a minimum of 50% of the setback area to be landscaped with ground cover and shrubs. Approvals per Exhibits C.10

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

Next Portland

Early Assistance was requested by Convergence Architecture for a project West of 7410 N Chicago Ave : New 3-story walk-up residential with 24 units and on-site parking, with detached structures for trash and long term bike parking. These mass timber structural elements will be supplemented by steel brace frames. acre (23,278 sq.

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Fifteen designs shortlisted in Dezeen and Bentley's Future Luxury Retail Design Competition

Deezen

It is zoned into various spaces that showcase different aspects of the Bentley brand. The centre would also features a VR room that allows customers to envisage Bentley cars in different landscapes. The centre would be composed of glulam timber, selected for its durability, renewability and ability to embed carbon and reduce emissions.

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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.