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GRUNER&FRIENDS Develop New SWISS LIFE – KPMG HQ

Architizer

The building was stripped down to its bare structure which is kept to retain the building’s zoning privileges. Patrice Gruner: A book with a world map inspired me to sketch up the concept for the client. The building was stripped down to its bare structure which is kept to retain the building’s zoning privileges.

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The misleading narratives about Harborplace

Community Architect Daily

In an unprecedented well coordinated effort of selling the notion to the general public that Baltimore would be better off if MCB's HarborPlace renderings became reality, the Mayor, the local councilman and the developer himself spin misleading or outright deceptive narratives. See this PBS documentary ). This, too misses the mark.

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A4 Guide: The Six Phases of the Architectural Design Process

A4 Architects

This can establish “grandfathered” conditions that may apply to new project and impact planning and zoning calculations. These may be done with simple hand sketches, Sketch-Up models or even Computer Assisted Design (CAD) drawings, but they will tend to be very diagrammatic and simple.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

My grandfather was an engineer as well, who taught me how to sketch and draft with a t square in his workshop, and when I saw what was possible with the Wright book, I was hooked. Mentorship has been incredibly important to me and my development. Jade Alley, Miami ( top: RA-HAUS, bottom: Heywood Chan ). .

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Two Sheds | DREAMER

ArchiDiaries

Roger is Managing Director of NH Architecture and over the course of the next 7 years, he and Jane designed a house and obtained a planning permit for the site. Through this process DREAMER was ultimately engaged to build on the work the nelsons had already started and develop a new concept for the complete house. The Building.

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The Downcity Plan, II

Architecture Here and There

Chapter 22 concludes Part II of the book, whose final two chapters record the two major projects that sparked the Providence renaissance, which followed a series of major hiccups in the city’s development, which have been described in the other chapters of Part II, reprinted here over the past several months.

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Explorers at Home

Landscape Architecture Magazine

We were in a big sunny clearing near the entrance zone in the Upper Garden, where there is a neat compound of small work buildings and greenhouses surrounded on three sides by dark curtains of conifers. An early hand sketch by Richard Hartlage, Affiliate ASLA, of planting for the Pollinator and Habitat Garden. Courtesy Land Morphology.

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