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Economic and political obstacles stand in way of office-to-residential conversion projects

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Various cities across the United States have been turning to office-to-residential conversions as a way to address declining city cores that have yet to reach pre-pandemic levels. And while it's easy to imagine the process behind conversions, like adding in walls and plumbing, it gets complicated.

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This Tel Aviv residential project blends two contemporary buildings with a historic villa

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Tel Aviv -based Bar Orian Architects has unveiled a new residential project that blends past and present by integrating two contemporary buildings with a historic, early 20th-century villa. The development, titled Villa Rothschild, sits along Tel Aviv’s Rothschild Boulevard. In order to.

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Social Studies Projects dances with ADU zoning laws for the economic House for Two Writers

The Architect's Newsletter

Young firms often have to cut their teeth on small renovation projects. Going from large residential works to these economical ones may seem like moving backwards, but for the team The post Social Studies Projects dances with ADU zoning laws for the economic House for Two Writers appeared first on The Architect’s Newspaper.

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Yancheng East Lake Xinyu Commercial by Lacime Architects

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This project is located in the Urban Sports Park and along the canal in the Eastern Development Zone of Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province. Surrounded by government offices, residential areas, reception hotels, and other facilities, it represents a typical new urban development zone in China.

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all(zone) joins five curved wings to compose ‘under the rain trees’ house in northern thailand

designboom

under the rain trees house by all(zone) On the bank of the Ping River in Chiang Mai, Northern Thailand, covered by decades-old rain trees, this expansive dwelling tucks itself blissfully amid the riparian nature.

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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.

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HAN – Residential Quarter Bothfelder Kirchweg/ Hanover (DE) by AllesWirdGut

Archinect

less is more The Bothfelder Kirchweg residential quarter combines the social fabric of a village community with the qualities of a naturally grown open space. The situation of the built volumes secures the preservation of the existing tree population, which are a defining identification factor for the entire quarter.