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Chinese architects facing nightmare working conditions amid real-estate crisis

Deezen

Spiralling developer debt and stalling projects After a long period of booming urban development, China's property industry is in turmoil, with developers struggling under spiralling debt and construction projects grinding to a halt. It would then be very difficult to get paid."

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Before & After: In Austin, a New Life Out West Starts With a First Remodel for $176K

Dwell

After making the move and renting for the first two years, she was ready to buy, setting her sights on a 1962 home in the Riverside neighborhood, where there was a pocket of midcentury builds that had survived recent development. "It The first hurdle was financing, securing a bank loan to cover the mortgage and remodel budget.

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Before & After: In Austin, a New Life Out West Starts With a First Remodel for $176K

Dwell

After making the move and renting for the first two years, she was ready to buy, setting her sights on a 1962 home in the Riverside neighborhood, where there was a pocket of midcentury builds that had survived recent development. "It The first hurdle was financing, securing a bank loan to cover the mortgage and remodel budget.

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The "miracle" of Taiwan's luxury social housing

Deezen

Development is mostly funded by city governments, with additional support from central government. Contracting private architecture studios, city governments focused on maximising quality. Financing social housing requires substantial and prolonged subsidies," Peng told Dezeen. Virtually all housing in Taiwan is apartments.

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Seven postgraduate architecture projects by students at Cardiff University

Deezen

Here, students develop grounded but research-led study through a dissertation and design thesis, whilst also undertaking studies in the practice, management and economics of architecture. They go on to use design as a vehicle for research and the development of imaginative architectural propositions."

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An Organization Is Using History to Rehab Public Housing

Dwell

The president, since 2012, of Harlem-based Ascendant Neighborhood Development , Cirillo leads a nonprofit organization with a 30-year track record of building affordable housing in Upper Manhattan. Ascendant has only been called Ascendant for about six years—we were called SFDS Development Corporation originally.

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On not going pens down

Brandon Donnelly

It used to be the case, when I first started working on condominium projects back in 2007 or so, that you would go pens down on your design drawings while you launched pre-sales and worked toward meeting your construction financing requirements. So what you want to do is not go pens down. Keep going on drawings. tendering).