SW Oregon Architect

AUGUST 29, 2021

Claim 52 has extra outdoor seating thanks to the City of Eugene's streatery program (photo from the City of Eugene's Streatery Program web page ) The recent, unfortunate upsurge in COVID-19 cases here in Lane County once again threatens the viability of the local food services industry.

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Brandon Donnelly

MARCH 9, 2023

The result is that the city is now permitting close to 1,000 ADUs per year (2022 figure). And for the first time ever, this figure now exceeds the number of permits issued for single-family houses. Part of what’s driving this adoption is that the City created 10 pre-approved plans that owners/builders can choose from.

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Santa Cruz Architect

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Accessory Dwelling Units are more popular than ever, and cities across California are recognizing the importance of ADUs in the fight to end the state’s housing crisis. While all cities must allow ADUs, jurisdictions are allowed to adopt ordinances to tailor the law’s implementation to their local needs. Concurrent Permit Review.

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Dwell

AUGUST 9, 2024

When construction was slated to start in March of 2020, Kyle Hovenkotter and Tiffany Rattray relied on common materials and loved ones to get the job done. Kyle Hovenkotter and Tiffany Rattray had been living in New York City for a decade when they stubbornly accepted an all-too-familiar fact: they couldn’t afford to buy a home. "We

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A Daily Dose of Architecture Books

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Over that time he has served as an architect, planner, educator, and an advisor to cities in and beyond the US, including Charleston, South Carolina, Omaha, and New York City, where he was Director of Urban Design in the Department of City Planning.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JANUARY 17, 2023

In 2020, California became the first state to require new homes to be equipped with solar panels to offset the use of grid electricity as part of its goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2045. It’s important to note that these standards only apply to ADUs for which permitting was submitted after January 1, 2020.

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The Spaces

AUGUST 20, 2024

North Korea was the first country to shut its international borders and adopt lockdown measures but in December 2024, its government will finally allow international tourists to visit the country for the first time since January 2020, specifically its northeastern city of Samjiyon. Photography: Laika ac from USA / CC SA.20

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 16, 2023

20-04 in March of 2020, which directed all state agencies to take actions to reduce and regulate greenhouse gas emissions. Parking reform is one of the projects the City of Eugene is expected to tackle in response. If the City chooses Option 1, the State will not require additional action.

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Urban Realm

AUGUST 1, 2022

Landsec has reheated plans to overhaul the Buchanan Galleries shopping complex in Glasgow city centre with a request to proceed with a travellator and podium as part of the South Retail Extension.

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Dwell

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

There hasn’t exactly been an explosion of new accessory dwelling units (ADUs) in Chicago since its city council passed an ADU pilot ordinance in 2020, which allows for new coach houses and basement or attic renovations to add additional units in certain parts of the city.

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Dwell

AUGUST 9, 2024

When construction was slated to start in March of 2020, Kyle Hovenkotter and Tiffany Rattray relied on common materials and loved ones to get the job done. Kyle Hovenkotter and Tiffany Rattray had been living in New York City for a decade when they stubbornly accepted an all-too-familiar fact: they couldn’t afford to buy a home. "We

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Home Building Real Estate Permits 72

Dwell

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

A firm has secured permits for a replicable 800-square-foot house, making it easier to build a weekend retreat or short-term rental. Like a lot of dust-covered gems away from city centers, the word is out on Joshua Tree.

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Dwell

JULY 7, 2022

After California passed a regulation in 2020 to ease the permitting of ADUs, they called up their good friend (and former neighbor) David Thompson. Thompson, a founding principal of Assembledge+, had recently participated in a Los Angeles Magazine project to imagine solutions for those who lack housing in the city.

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Dwell

AUGUST 23, 2022

In 2020, Los Angeles started to get serious about accessory dwelling units. After California passed the regulation in 2020, they called up their good friend (and former neighbor) David Thompson. Let these bite-sized home offices, in-law flats, rental units, and other backyard houses give you a few big ideas for your own space.

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Brandon Donnelly

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Early accounts, by people like Joe Cortright of City Observatory , suggested that the market was reacting to this new requirement as you might expect. From 2019 to 2020, new multi-unit housing permits in Portland fell by more than 60%. Cortright did that in the fall of last year and the housing numbers are continuing to fall.

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Chicago Architecture

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

We don’t see any new construction permits for this space, so for right now we’ll file it in our “Believe it when we see it” drawer. You’ll remember the city approved Related’s plan to build a thousand new homes in a two-tower complex replacing the Chicago Spire scar. Whichever comes first.

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Chicago Architecture

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Construction at 1000M in August 2020 (Courtesy of YoChicago!). That future got a little brighter a couple of weeks ago, when the City of Chicago issued a revised construction permit: The north-facing wall of 1006 South Michigan Avenue. Pre-bricking.

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Architecture Here and There

JUNE 24, 2022

” The high court’s Justice William Robinson upheld Superior Court Judge Brian Stern and his December 2020 ruling, reported in GoLocalProv.com, that: [A]s evidenced by the conflicting recommendations … as to consistency with the Comprehensive Plan, this issue is not entirely clear cut.

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Brandon Donnelly

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

After speaking with city staff, I immediately got the impression that this thing was not going to get approved. In the fall of 2020 we submitted for a building permit, and about 6 weeks later it arrived. Hundreds of permits have already been issued and this number is only going to increase. At least not now.

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Dwell

JUNE 26, 2023

Jon Staff, founder of cabin rental company Getaway, and his partner Michael Thorton purchased an overgrown bayside lot in the Cherry Grove community of Fire Island, New York, in February 2020. We closed on the lot in February 2020. Justin Kaneps Starting the Process Jon : We inherited the plans and permits for the house.

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Dwell

JUNE 30, 2023

The current owners, who purchased the property for a chilly $30 million in September of 2020 , are rumored to be tearing down the home and building a new one. City Landmark because of a partial demo that was done to the home without permits, leaving it in shambles."

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Portland Architecture

DECEMBER 12, 2022

At U of O, I had a great mix of core professors and classmates, but I grew tired of what felt like a singular focus on sustainability at the time and wanted to get out into the world and learn about other aspects of design and cities. While at Allied, Daniel worked on celebrated projects like the Corvallis Museum.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In an otherwise banal entry courtyard for an unassuming building in the city’s 11th arrondissement, Wagon transformed a hardscape surface into a thriving garden. Emma Blanc Paysage’s 2020 renovation of Place de la Bastille with reused granite curbstone. Photo by Emma Blanc. Photo by Ilana Cohen.

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Manhave and building developer VORM have unveiled the new design for the Lumière Tower in the city centre of Rotterdam. Image © KAAN Architecten The Lumière Passage The Lumière Passage, nestled between the City House and the base of Lumière Tower, will connect Lijnbaan with Karel Doormanstraat and Kruiskade. Source by KAAN Architecten.

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 10, 2022

One of the things that cities often try and stamp out is speculation. The way it works today in, I believe, most cities, is that if you do a site-specific rezoning on a property — and secure additional density — you get those special permissions forever. Homes should not sit empty (enter vacant home tax).

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Architecture Here and There

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yet demolition permits are, according to the Providence Journal, in the works for all three – no one seems to know who applied for them, or for what purpose – and so the houses are sitting ducks awaiting their sad fate. The firm was registered with the city on Sept. Specifically, they are Nos. 209, 211 and 217.

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Dwell

MAY 27, 2024

Evan Dyer, a litigator from the Philadelphia area, says he’s committed to building something "as close as possible" to the original, albeit set on a wooded lot somewhere outside of New York City, rather than in Los Angeles’s Brentwood neighborhood. Meant to be a vacation home for his family, Dyer’s "Zimmerman 2.0"

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aasarchitecture

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Zibo OCT Art Center, an introverted experimental work, is in an open area far away from the city. When it’s a rainy day, semi-outdoor activities are permitted in the corridor. Site area: 27,792sqm Gross floor area: 2,471sqm Completion Year: 2020 Photographs: Jin Weiqi , XIA ZHI PICTURES , Courtesy of Studio Zhu Pei.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The DRA filed a class action lawsuit against the library and the City of New York for violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. The city of Venice's next step to reduce falls on the bridge is to replace the glass floor segments with stone. According to DRA's website , the case is still ongoing.

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e-architect

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It is led by Manchester City Council, with backing of £99.05m from HM Government and £7m National Lottery funding from Arts Council England. This new cultural landmark strengthens the city’s status as a national and international centre for culture, creativity and innovation, as well as a major visitor destination.

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Community Architect Daily

JANUARY 19, 2024

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. Letter in the SUN) Of course, many other jurisdictions have long adjusted their zoning to allow more flexibility in the permitted uses and still have a democracy.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Project Status: Concept MicroPolis – is a proposal for a new housing typology of micro-homes in metropolitan centers such as New York City. The prevalence of unoccupied and unusable space presents an opportunity to rethink affordable housing throughout the city. It can be installed in already built, empty urban spaces.

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Dwell

OCTOBER 28, 2021

In 2020, working with nonprofit Loaves & Fishes and design firm Logan Architecture, Icon introduced a 51-acre development of 3D-printed homes for those experiencing homelessness in Austin.

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Community Architect

OCTOBER 25, 2022

It makes up more than half of all US residential accommodations and in many cities it is written into the code as the right and only form to live. It is generally presumed to be the century old , innocent attempt of providing some order in our cities so that slaughterhouses wouldn't wind up in residential neighborhoods.

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aasarchitecture

JUNE 14, 2022

After acquiring a 592 sq/m site on one of the most characteristic avenues in the city of Oporto, the clients approached us with the intention of designing a collective housing building for the upper middle class, with two basic premises: the valorization of the site, and that all apartments be complemented with generous terraces.

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Architizer

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The cost of renting a studio apartment in Saint Louis’s newest residential apartment block is over $2000 per month, which is around half the median salary of someone who lives in the city. From 2010 to 2020, the average property price per square meter in the USA has risen by 153.3% and by a mere 0.6%

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BD+C

JUNE 28, 2023

If there’s a market for it” is the operative term, however, because office districts in major cities are under stress as they’ve emptied out in the wake of the pandemic, and many building owners are defaulting on loans, according to The New York Times. Generally, the highest and best use for something is office, if there’s a market for it.

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