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Designer Ed Warner Is Onto Creating Stylish Bathrooms for People With Disabilities

Dwell

Ed Warner still remembers the words of his school friend James Taylor after Taylor was paralyzed in a diving accident in 2005: "Every morning I wake up and I’m reminded of my condition because of the products around me." London studio Fine & Able, led by Ed Warner, creates spaces for diverse body types and abilities.

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Places in Time III

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

If I were doing that roundup now, having had more time to delve into the new book, I would write that politics and finance were, if not the most prevalent, the most illuminating and thoroughly discussed aspects in the book's presentation of skyscrapers over fifty years last century. So why include it?

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Social housing means "I can breathe again" say residents

Deezen

Between 2005 and 2010, London's 33 local government bodies built just 90 homes between them. Photo by Jim Stephenson However, in recent years, following a series of reforms to financing and borrowing rules plus targeted funding from London mayor Sadiq Khan, councils in the UK capital have launched a mini-renaissance in house-building.

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Favorite Books of 2023

A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 1 1990–2005 (2022) and Caruso St John Collected Works: Volume 2 2000–2012 (2023), published by MACK — Released a year apart (will volume three follow a year from now?) Until then, warm holiday wishes! exhibition in September.)

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Habitat For Humanity Doesn’t Just Give Away Houses

Dwell

So we started to do a lot more incremental construction, rather than building whole houses, and do a lot more through financing. Most of the financing isn’t direct A to B; we made a big bet on microfinancing, in particular. million last year.

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Developer holds Baltimore City hostage - can he be forced to develop?

Community Architect Daily

No demo without financing is a Approved Shalom Baranes design without the Mechanic toothless tiger that rests in the current zoning code. Ever after this historic building was lost in favor of a parking lot, planners and urban designers thought about tools that would force a developer's hand.

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2022 RIBA Annie Spink Award

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She was made FRIBA in 2005 and Professor at Westminster in 2014. The £10,000 Annie Spink Award is financed by the Annie Spink Trust Fund, which was established in 1974 by architect Herbert Spink FRIBA. Rattenbury contributes towards the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology’s PhD by Practice community.