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Nonprofit group releases National Zoning Atlas resource for 2025

Archinect

The newly released National Zoning Atlas resource covers 30,000 U.S. municipal zoning codes and consolidates several different disciplines, representing the "most complex geocoded legal research project in the United States." Here’s a useful tool for architects and planners as we enter the new year.

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KOS Mosque / r.a.f.studio

ArchDaily

Completed in 2020 in Konya, Turkey. KOS Mosque is a renovation project of one of the typical mosque projects in the Konya Organized Industrial Zone, which is not only considered a. Images by Gürkan Akay.

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The ADU Boom Has Begun. Is It Adding the Housing We Need?

Dwell

As housing policy organizations like Casita Coalition chipped away at zoning and other regulatory barriers, California has passed a raft of laws around ADUs since 2017, including one in October 2023 that allows people in participating jurisdictions to buy and sell ADUs as condos. The average unit size is around 600 square feet.

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Amazon's latest warehouse battle has San Francisco lawmakers pushing for a moratorium on similar developments

Archinect

The second most valuable company in the world, Amazon has been gobbling up space throughout the southeast corner of the city, taking advantage of zoning meant to preserve blue-collar jobs in a market in which housing and office space have typically generated higher revenues.

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Delve Architects uses green tiles to disguise Kim-oflage studio in London garden

Deezen

Called Kim-oflage a combination of the clients' names, Kit and Imogen, and camouflage the 25-square-metre studio adds a multipurpose space to Victorian terrace in Nunhead, which had previously been extended by Delve Architects in 2020.

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A bill that could make zoning more inclusive

Community Architect Daily

In recent years planners have become much more aware of the exclusionary effects that zoning has had on people and their towns and cities. The old zoning separated neatly housing from everything else presumably in the interest of public health. Dismantling the legacy zoning system is no small task.

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Terraforming the Future: 6 Examples of Architects Literally Reshaping the Earth

Architizer

Apfelhotel Torgglerhof: In full bloom By NOA , Saltusio, Italy In 2020, eighteen new suites and a wellness spa were added to the hotels existing structure, carefully designed to fit into the farmyards landscape and complementing the rural surroundings.

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