Habitus Living

MARCH 17, 2024

In collaboration with her ‘wing-woman’ Jamie Blakey, her latest project, Sunranch, takes cues from the Californian Ranch Houses of the 1970s. It is very much about the story for me – if there isn’t one I’ll write one and it can certainly be fictional, this helps me to build a space around a character.

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SW Oregon Architect

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I’m not exactly sure how Fixr selected their “expert contributors,” but they tapped me to be among them. Certainly, minority representation in the architectural profession fails to fairly reflect the increasing diversity of the people architects design projects for. Fixr ’s survey seemed innocuous enough. I asked if she could explain.

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Brandon Donnelly

MARCH 2, 2023

Okay, I really don’t want to make this — using ChatGPT to write my blog posts for me — a habit. But I was genuinely curious what would happen if I asked it to: “write a stereotypical NIMBY letter opposing a new housing development.” ” Here’s what it generated.

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Brandon Donnelly

AUGUST 14, 2023

A friend of mine just sent me this blog post from the venture capital firm, Shadow Ventures. ” Here’s one of the points that they make: We are project based. Project based, different source of funding/budget every time, the team changes (but we have our faves). It’s about being less project based.

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Historic LDS Architecture

APRIL 6, 2024

After all the excitement of the Manti Temple open house , there are a few other interesting news items that have come up in the past few weeks: St. George Tabernacle closed for another project Even though it just completed a renovation in 2016-18, the St. George Tabernacle closed this month for another 3-month renovation.

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SW Oregon Architect

AUGUST 8, 2021

The Birch Fircrest House I had the good fortune this weekend to enjoy a tour of a remarkable work of architecture currently under construction: the Birch Fircrest House designed by Speranza Architecture + Urban Design. Philip Speranza , AIA offered the personal tour, describing the design in detail for me.

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Habitus Living

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Integral to architecture and design is capturing the finished project through the lens and the expert eye of the photographer. Anne Stroud: My curiosity for photography led me to purchase an old film Pentax camera at a garage sale which opened a Pandora’s box for me. Today we profile Anne Stroud.

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Architizer

APRIL 28, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. Some of Edwin Hurtado + Holger Cuadrado Arquitectura’s most prominent projects include: Casa D4. How are these architecture firms ranked?

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Dwell

AUGUST 30, 2023

In the ’60s, people were talking a lot about straw bale houses and mud houses, adobe, stuff like that. but that kind of disappeared," he told me. But he pursued the project independently, on his own dime, to create a kind of showcase for the public. We’re going to use the house as a demonstration.

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aasarchitecture

APRIL 30, 2024

Oman’s Ministry of Housing and Urban Planning (MoHUP) has announced the masterplan for a reimagined waterfront development in downtown Muscat, the nation’s capital. The city is also increasingly popular with international visitors, welcoming over 3 million tourists last year. million sqm and is set to revitalise the area. million to 2.7

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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 18, 2021

Presently, Section 9.2170 of the Eugene Code (Commercial Zone Development Standards) prescribes no minimum front yard setback in the C-2 (Community Commercial) and C-3 (Major Commercial) zones, whereas as amended they would be 5 feet and 3 feet, respectively. The maximum front yard setback would remain unchanged at 15 feet.

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Dwell

JUNE 26, 2022

The main inspiration was the austerity of the environments people lived in during the sixteenth century, when the house was built," Noguera says. What draws me in most are the floor-to-ceiling windows that overlook the picturesque countryside—and the fireplace. The whole project is an ode to coziness."

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Shades of Grey

MARCH 9, 2024

We agreed on a 3 month trial period. Part of this was a project I had been working on for a few years to document the built history of Harare and Zimbabwe. Google Earth has been taking me back in time to a city I lived in for Twenty years. We lived in three different houses. I spent 23 years there, brought up 3 children.

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Dwell

JANUARY 29, 2024

This story is a part of New Year, New You , a package devoted to small, low-stress home improvement projects that, with a little effort, will dramatically improve your life. At least once a week, somebody in my house opens the door, shakes their head, says "we need to fix this," and then closes the door and walks away.

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Brandon Donnelly

JULY 1, 2023

So this is obviously something that we pay a lot of attention to in our own projects. For example, at Junction House, we have 151 suites and 2 elevators. At the same time, I live in a building with 357 suites and 3 elevators (1 for every 119), and it works just fine. Let me know in the comments below.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Her immersive installations, on the other hand, though I've yet to experience one, resonate more strongly with me; these include Forest of Us in Miami and Memory Palace from 2019. The parts that make me appreciate the book so much are the process-oriented project presentations. The book is packed, fully.

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Deezen

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The designer is best known for her creative food installations and projects that blend design, food and art, which she produces at her studio in New York. Every project I do is different," Gohar told Dezeen. Her projects include a swan made from artichoke leaves. Read: Hay unveils renovated Hay House 2.0

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Deezen

JUNE 8, 2023

The Dezeen team are reporting live from the 10th edition of 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen (7-9 June). Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand's lamps were conceived as absolute projects, made exclusively for the architectures for which they were designed," Nemo CEO Federico Palazzari told Dezeen.

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BLDGBLOG

JANUARY 10, 2022

A beautiful new house on Firmware Update, painted entirely in Autocomplete. Anecdotally, it has always seemed to me that fans of J.G. One such engineering firm, based near the developments described here, describes its expertise as tackling “earth-related problems” on “earth-related projects.” A paint called “Download.”.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

MARCH 21, 2022

I've decided to bring back "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. A well-considered use of materials and an emphasis on small-scale massing (even in the larger projects) unite the projects.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

JUNE 6, 2022

The anchor project of this publication is the Hutong Children’s Library & Art Centre, which won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 2016. Both are beautiful, small-scale projects whose qualities come to the fore in the models and in this book documenting them and two more hutong projects.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Accordingly, small projects (e.g., Accordingly, small projects (e.g., The catalog can be purchased via Inventory Press.)

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Dwell

APRIL 25, 2023

As generative AI tools rapidly develop, machine-learning technology is coming for our houses. On the front page of online furniture shopping service ToTree.co ’s website, I’m met with the message "Furniture Picked For You" above a prompt to start my own project. For design, the latter is potentially risky. "A

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Shades of Grey

APRIL 4, 2023

That's the right time slot for me and the climate here. Looking pretty good for a 1980s project. Peranakan Houses, purely residential, but clearly related to the shophouse tradition which is also in evidence in this neighbourhood along with a sprinkling of more modern types. I was given a marketing brochure for the project.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

With so many architecture firms to choose from, it’s challenging for clients to identify the industry leaders that will be an ideal fit for their project needs. achieve 30th place in the 30 Best Architecture Firms in Japan: Featured Projects 5 Total Projects 9 29. How are these architecture firms ranked? Some of id inc.’s

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Lines on Paper

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

In my childhood, Jalan Tabuan tapered off at the Bukit Antu junction into a gravel road leading to farms which would become Kuching’s first housing estate; Kenyalang Park (and Shopping Centre). Two boys raced out the front door, down the short narrow concrete path to the gate; 3 feet wide enough to let people and bicycles through.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Contemporary House India by Robert Gregory, with photographs by Edmund Sumner Thames & Hudson , November 2021 Hardcover | 9-1/4 x 11-3/4 inches | 272 pages | 355 illustrations | English | ISBN: 9780500021330 | $75.00 Each chapter starts with a "featured project" that is on yellow paper.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

It, his first book, summarized his efforts in that role at NYC Planning, presenting the working methods behind the projects he worked on and doing it in ways that other urban designers in other places could learn from them. There I found his first book, Urban Design as Public Policy: Practical Methods for Improving Cities , published in 1974.

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Shades of Grey

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Exercises, teaching basic 3d projections: orthographic and isometric. 2 or 3 matches per day. So it's taken me a year or so to build up the raw material for this recreation. The flavour of a bygone age is part of what drew me closer to Zimbabwe and kept me there so long. There were worksheets. I have a gas stove.

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Deezen

AUGUST 31, 2022

Set to be 550-metres tall and 3,000 metres in circumference, the skyscraper would be composed of two interconnected main rings that will house residential, public, commercial and cultural spaces. Commenters are split over the viability and necessity of such a project. Wildfires influence design of Campout House in northern California.

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Deezen

JUNE 9, 2023

The Dezeen team are reporting from the 10th edition of 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen (7-9 June). 6:00pm A 30-metre dinner table awaits 80 guests in this collaboration between architecture and design studio Spacon & X and 3 Days of Design. Read on for all the coverage from the second day (Thursday 8 June).

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Lines on Paper

MAY 17, 2021

Photo of my father taken at my grandparent's house. The house maid had woken up and found him gone, she rang my sister who texted us at 1:40 a.m. I recall one incident when we were holidaying with them in Penang, when he broke down and asked me for money. This was the corner room where my youngest slept. Was he a good father?

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Brandon Donnelly

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A few months ago I wrote about a passion project that I am working on with a friend, called Unlyst. The idea is to see if there is a way to leverage the “ wisdom of crowds ” to determine the current market value of housing. It is open to all. World Cup Finals. What a game! Turns out I was right.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The fair this year feels to me like it has created a testbed for new ideas," said Olbers. Furthermore, with Copenhagen's citywide 3 Days of Design event providing an alternative lure for brands in the region, there was a lack of Danish brands exhibiting in Stockholm.

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Habitus Living

AUGUST 21, 2023

Hosted by: Arthur G 618 Church Street, Richmond 11:00 AM – 11:30 AM Publish me! Hosted by: Brickworks 367 Collins Street, Melbourne CBD 11:30 AM – 12:00 PM For the love of art Keen to bring some art into your projects and spaces? Hear from designers celebrated for their expertly bold and expressive approach. Hosted by: HOW.

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Baker House dormitory at MIT is the easiest way for someone like myself living on the East Coast to see an Aalto in person, but I have it on good judgment that it would pale in comparison to visiting Villa Mairea, Säynätsalo Town Hall, Paimio Sanatorium, and any of the many other Aalto buildings in Finland.

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Deezen

JUNE 6, 2023

According to Adams, adaptive reuse projects need to be better celebrated in architectural media, awards programmes and academia. "If Produced by Dezeen's in-house creative team, Climate Salon episodes will be released over the coming months along with opinion pieces by SketchUp relating to the topics featured in the series.

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