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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

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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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Omar Gandhi Architects balances cedar house on rocky Nova Scotia coastline

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Canadian studio Omar Gandhi Architects has completed a cedar-wrapped house "inspired by the scattered boulders" that trail down the seaside property in Hubbards, Nova Scotia. The house presents as two interlocked, stacking boxes – that are meant to weather over time to match the pale grey of the sky – perched on a hillside. "The

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Ædifica presents "vision of densification" for Cité Angus II housing block in Montreal

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Local architecture studio Ædifica has created a residential apartment building outside Montreal with an interior courtyard and a metal-mesh second skin on the facade. Called Cité Angus II, the structure is part of Technopôle Angus, an urban revitalization project that its developers say is a "full-scale sustainable development".

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RKTB Architects cantilevers Brooklyn housing block over neighbouring building

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One Sullivan Place was designed by RKTB Architects Totalling 60,000 square feet (5,574 square metres), One Sullivan Place contains 52 rental apartments, 16 of which are classified as affordable housing. Of those 16, three are designated for senior residents. The remaining units are market-rate.

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Concrete columns frame Bury Gate Farm house by Sandy Rendel Architects

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Named Bury Gate Farm, the five-bedroom house replaces a 1950s bungalow on a sloped site on the outskirts of Pulborough, which overlooks fields and woodland. Previous projects by the studio include a barrel-vaulted barn conversion in West Sussex and a narrow house slotted into a disused alley in Peckham.

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