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In This Town, Renovating Instead of Tearing Down Puts Money Back in Your Pocket

Dwell

Photo courtesy of Mimi Collins, Jameson Sotheby’s International Realty Since the 1990s, Hinsdale has lost about half of its original housing stock due to teardowns, estimates Jim Prisby, a member of the village’s historic preservation commission. Sixteen months after its launch, 79 homes have been approved as historically significant.

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Together for the Terroir

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Since 2017, Baker says, a series of intense wildfires has damaged both the public health and the economy of the region, which is dependent on wineries. One of several design options developed by Ann Baker Landscape Architecture that respond to drought and wildfire regulations and are available for free online.

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Grenfell Tower in West London: Fire Inquiry

e-architect

on 14 June 2017: photograph by Natalie Oxford, courtesy of wikimedia commons. This was in breach of building regulations. The inquiry has concluded that cladding fuelled the 2017 fire in west London. Grenfell Tower fire, 4:43 a.m. Government knowledge of cladding risks.

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NGV curator picks seven highlights from 2023 Melbourne Now's Design Wall

Deezen

How and why new products are developed is driven by social dynamics, regulations and economic forces." The company estimates that in any given year its use of recycled materials for pillows and quilts stops the equivalent of 100 million plastic drink bottles from entering landfill and waterways."

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California Senate Bill 1226: Addressing Unpermitted Construction of ADUs

Santa Cruz Architect

Senate Bill 1226 (SB 1226), introduced in the 2017-2018 legislative session, aimed to address this issue by easing the process for legalizing existing unpermitted accessory dwelling units (ADUs). Estimates suggest hundreds of thousands of unpermitted ADUs exist in California.

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ROLL, TIDE

Landscape Architecture Magazine

Early estimates of the spill’s impacts suggested that the state could lose nearly $1 billion in earnings and up to 49,000 jobs. When Blankenship became the DCNR commissioner in 2017, he helped settle a lawsuit filed by the Gulf Restoration Network, now called Healthy Gulf, over the use of settlement funds to reconstruct the lodge.

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News: Harvard GSD reveals four 2023 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Bustler

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. The World Health Organization estimates that almost 800 women died from preventable causes related to pregnancy and childbirth every day in 2020.

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