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Is There a Way Out of Hawaii’s Housing Crisis?

Dwell

We’re the state with the most regulations and hoops that you have to jump through in order to provide housing," says Cassandra Abdul, executive director of the Maui-based housing nonprofit N? A 2015 ordinance allowed accessory dwelling units to be built on any single-family lot on O‘ahu. Hale O Maui.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

In 2015, she founded the architecture studio LANZA Atelier, along with Alessandro Arienzo. From 2015 to 2017, Abascal was the Executive Director of LIGA, Espacio para Arquitectura, a platform dedicated to the dissemination and discussion of Latin American architecture.

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Beauty, Ma’am, if you can keep it

Architecture Here and There

Second among these projects, shaped over a longer term, is Kennedy Plaza, which has already seen its beauty degraded by the removal of its elegant Art Nouveau bus waiting kiosks, replaced in 2015 with unembellished utilitarian cubicles unworthy of our city’s central civic square.

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Going Solar: The Rays That Pay

Community Architect

solar azimuth) What are the regulations in my state, what incentives are offered? This is a type of solar financing agreement replaces the upfront costs of a solar system with a lease with a third-party owner or solar developer who will take care of the design, permitting, and installation of the entire system. .: (7/21)

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100 Women to Watch in Architecture

Architizer

Sharon Davis ’s Women’s Opportunity Center in Rwanda won both the Popular and Jury A+Award for Architecture +Community in 2015 and it isn’t hard to see why: the complex is one of the most inspiring community-oriented projects in recent memory. Left: Women’s Opportunity Center, Rwanda; right: Sharon Davis, image via Curbed. Sharon Davis.

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How the Governor and MTA want to get the Red Line done

Community Architect Daily

Besides, the 2015 estimate of $2.95 How to construct and finance the line? In 2015 it was assumed that about half of the project would be constructed by a design-build contract in the P3 mode (Public-private partnership) and the other half in the traditional design-bid-build mode. billion with a at least 10 year escalation.

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Meet the Organization Crowdfunding for Affordable Housing

Dwell

And then in 2015, I met with a builder who had some securities background, and told me about the 2012 JOBS Act. And I thought, Look, here’s a really interesting way to think about financing the equity piece of projects like this for developers who perhaps don’t have a huge wealth network, and are doing really important, interesting work.