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What Should Home Owners Be Aware Of Before Purchasing or Renovating a Home?

Aric Gitomer Architect

On several occasions, residential architects try to guide prospective homebuyers about the process. Understand the Local Regulations. From the homebuyers’ perspective, you must ensure to find out about the local regulations. Ignoring building regulations could dampen your plans of adding an extension or renovation in the future.

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Update: City of Santa Cruz ADU Regulations

Santa Cruz Architect

The State of California has a recognized housing shortage, with the result that both Sacramento and local municipalities throughout California have made myriad recent changes to the regulations governing ADUs. What is an ADU? Bathroom and full kitchen facilities can either be shared with the rest of the home or be exclusive to the JADU.)

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AIA: Crowd-funding shows promise for financing real estate projects

BD+C

Under the long-delayed "crowdfunding” regulations, small firms could sell shares through online "portals," where thousands of investors could pore over the business plans of small companies and choose promising investments. Architects Building Owner Contractors Designers Engineers Facility Managers'

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Why All Architects Should Tackle an Adaptive Reuse Project At Least Once in their Careers

Architizer

Renovation is not only a new creative frontier for architects, it is the future of architecture: according to Deloitte estimates, up to 90 percent of future development will involve re-designing existing buildings. This fact alone should give architects without previously engaged in this type of design pause.

Project 124
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How Design Professionals Can Find the North Star in the Fog of Upheaval

Community Architect

Professionals who are guided not only by rules, codes, and regulations but also by societal values. Architects have learned about Vitruvius and his "Ten Books on Architecture", typically summarized in just one sentence: A building must be useful, solid, and beautiful. In the U.S.,

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GM and Bedrock seek to demolish skyscrapers surrounding Detroit's tallest building

Deezen

The plans call for the removal of two of the skyscrapers and the redevelopment of the remaining three, all of which were originally designed by American architect John Portman and completed in the late 1970s on the city's riverfront. This will require approval by local legislatures and regulators.

Building 122
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Sustainable architecture efforts hindered by "sloppiness" says UN climate ambassador

Deezen

Architects must take greater accountability for their sector to help decarbonise the built environment, says UN Race to Zero ambassador Sarah El Battouty in this exclusive interview from the final day of the COP27 climate conference. The entire sector and all its players, including the architects, are lagging," said El Battouty. "The