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Modular Housing: Striking Balance between Standardization and Customization

ArchDaily

Modular housing is rooted in the idea of quick replication and standardization. Prefabricated homes are disrupting the architecture industry with their efficient construction, predictable costs, and reduced environmental impact. In a world that prioritizes customization, how might modular housing meet the needs of diverse individuals?

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The Architect’s Standard of Care

SW Oregon Architect

This is the basis against which my performance may be measured in a legal proceeding—the so-called “ standard of care ”—to determine whether my actions may be regarded as professionally negligent. This entails ensuring their designs comply with these standards to promote safety, accessibility, and environmental sustainability.

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Standard Dose by SR Projects

Archinect

Standard Dose, a burgeoning CBD brand, has recently opened a store in New York’s NoMad neighborhood. The designers worked closely with Anthony Saniger of Standard Dose to concretize the brand’s identity through the raw minimalist interior.

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'Lunch atop a skyscraper' reflects how far construction safety standards have come

Archinect

It reflects how far safety standards have come from a time when they were nonexistent, and workplace fatalities were expected.

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Scotland will mandate passive house standards for all new social housing starts by 2024

Archinect

New legislation aimed at enacting a countrywide mandate for the use of passive house design standards in all new housing developments is gaining traction in Scotland after Labour MSP Alex Rowley’s bill was endorsed by the national government earlier this month.

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Standard Architecture refreshes interiors of pink Paul Smith store in LA

Deezen

British fashion label Paul Smith 's iconic pink store in Los Angeles has received an interior makeover from Standard Architecture. Standard Architecture collaborated with the Paul Smith design team to reimagine the 4,740-square-foot (440 square metres) store on Melrose Avenue, West Hollywood. The photography is by Genevieve Garruppo.

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Port Authority of NY & NJ reaches milestone with new low-carbon concrete standards

Archinect

They include the incorporation of LEED and Envision-equivalent standards, utilizing low-carbon concrete, collecting environmental data from contractors, facilitating pilot projects, waste matching for concrete, asphalt, and soil, and requiring low-emissions vehicles on site.