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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. faces a housing deficit of 3.8 million units.

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Cobe, Dorte Mandrup, JAJA, and Tegnestuen Vandkunsten to lead new mixed-use housing development at Copenhagen's South Harbor

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Cobe is joining fellow Danish architecture firms Dorte Mandrup , Tegnestuen Vandkunsten , and JAJA , alongside Sweco engineers, to deliver a new mixed-use residential district in Copenhagen’s South Harbor.

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This architect has identified the qualities office buildings need for converting to residential

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That simple recipe for pandemic lemonade—offices people no longer use, combining with central urban locations where people want to live—is blissfully ignorant of a wide range of architectural and economic factors that make the vast majority of office buildings simply unsuitable as housing.

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MVRDV unveils residential high-rises for Tencent smart city in Shenzhen

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Dutch studio MVRDV has revealed a series of residential high-rises arranged around courtyards in Shenzhen 's Qianhai bay, which will form part of a smart city development by technology company Tencent. MVRDV designed Tencent 5 as a social and green development that provides housing to employees working in the city.

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Hapi Homes donates 10 “foldable” residential structures in Odesa

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The gift is meant to house local families that have been displaced as a result of the ongoing conflict. The two-bedroom units come fully furnished and are set to be delivered later in the month in an effort to alleviate the burden on local workers – all doctors, nurses, teachers, and engineers, respectively.

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Studio Libeskind unveils social housing that feels "like home" in Brooklyn

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Architecture firm Studio Libeskind has completed The Atrium at Sumner Houses, an affordable housing block with 190 apartments for seniors in Brooklyn , New York. Libeskind, who is now one of the world's best-known architects, lived in the housing cooperative when he was a teenager in the late 1950s and early 1960s.

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Renzo Piano Building Workshop puts the finishing touches on 600 W. 125th residential tower for Columbia University

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125th Street off-campus Harlem housing project for Columbia University in collaboration with CetraRuddy. The construction has been engineered to meet LEED v4.0 Renzo Piano Building Workshop (RPBW) is progressing towards the completion of its new 600 W. Thornton Tomasetti is in charge of delivering the building’s facade system.

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