The Architecture Designs

MARCH 29, 2025

Why Thermal Comfort Is a Key Factor in Architectural Design Thermal comfortthe state of feeling neither too hot nor too coldis influenced by temperature, humidity, airflow, and radiant heat. Rather than just controlling temperature, great designs create adaptable microclimates. Emerging solutions push passive design further.

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Archinect

AUGUST 14, 2023

Described by the design team as an “innovative model for Southern California hillside developments ,” the residence blends an adherence to strict hillside regulations with an incorporation of the site’s natural surroundings. The lower level features a guest suite and an entertainment zone ope.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This is not a regulated view corridor. Google Street View) View corridors are planning tools used in urban design and city planning to protect and enhance specific views within a city. These regulations can be applied to both public and private spaces, ensuring that designated views are not obstructed by new construction.

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Deezen

JANUARY 23, 2025

As the site had stringent zoning and environmental regulations, the team utilized some of the existing footprint to ensure the best connection and views of the water. The existing main residence was reconfigured to house multiple shared spaces including the kitchen, living room, dining room and lounge space.

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Renovation Housing Regulation Site 128

Deezen

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

The interior is almost entirely clad in bricks made from earth and tea leaves In an effort to incorporate tea itself into the interior design, Kooo Architects worked with Beijing-based Onearthstudio to develop a "tea-earth brick" that is used to clad 80 per cent of the store's walls. The photography is by Keishin Horikoshi.

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Architizer

JANUARY 30, 2025

Los Angeles-based design firm Breland Harper is seeking a Senior Project Architect to join its growing team. The integration of architectural, interior, and landscape design within the studio is a founding tenet of their practice, rooted in the desire to cultivate comprehensive experiences with subtle transitions between disciplines.

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Firms Project Architect Regulation 110

SW Oregon Architect

MAY 21, 2023

By stamping and signing our drawings and specifications, I am certifying that those documents comply with applicable codes, regulations, and professional standards. This act signifies my professional endorsement of the project’s design and my assumption of responsibility for its accuracy and adequacy.

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Archinect

JULY 10, 2024

Stephen Smith, through the New York nonprofit Center for Building in North America , has been exposing variables that undermine the housing market's intricate calculus in the form of building codes, cost of labor, zoning regulations, and the construction industry.

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Housing Regulation Zoning Industrial 202

Santa Cruz Architect

APRIL 13, 2024

Consequently, state laws regulating ADUs have been progressively relaxed, accompanied by increased pressure on local municipalities to simplify the building process. Keeping up with the evolving rules for designing an ADU has become challenging, with new regulations and policies emerging regularly.

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Deezen

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Ab Rogers Design has completed an artist's studio and residence in Kanazawa , Japan, featuring a series of fluorescent partition walls that can be rotated to transform how the space is used. If you put a computer on it then it's an office and if you put a sewing machine on it then it becomes a workshop for designing or making textiles."

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Santa Cruz Architect

MAY 28, 2023

Note that each local jurisdiction in the Monterey Bay area – Cities of Santa Cruz, Capitola, Watsonville, and Scotts Valley – each have their own, specific regulations: this article applies specifically to ADU regulations particular to the unincorporated areas of Santa Cruz County.

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Archinect

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Situated in a compact site, the new building needs to follow strict setback regulations from the surrounding neighbors, which results in a wedge-shaped zoning envelope, narrow floor plate in the west half and deep in the east half. The overall facade design is mostly understated.

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Deezen

APRIL 21, 2025

Local development and design studio Optima has announced the six-tower residential McDowell Mountain development in Arizona , designed to harvest up to 210,000 gallons of rainwater in an underground vault. There are two water concepts that we gave to the city as part of zoning," Hovey Jr told Dezeen.

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Residential Design Commercial Education 59

Architizer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Calling all architects, landscape architects and interior designers: Architizer's A+Awards allows firms of all sizes to showcase their practice and vie for the title of Worlds Best Architecture Firm. Bird nesting is just one of many contemporary family dynamics that are forcing us to rethink how residential design functions and who it is for.

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Santa Cruz Architect

JULY 16, 2023

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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Architizer

MARCH 31, 2022

As a critical step in the City’s Climate Ready Boston Initiative, Utile led the development of Boston’s first Coastal Resilience Design Guidelines and recommendations for a citywide zoning overlay in collaboration with the Boston Planning and Development Agency. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc. © Utile, Inc.

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Archinect

JULY 8, 2022

The scenic area covers an area of 7 square kilometers, and is the ecological "green lung" of Suzhou High-tech Zone. This design is a building renovation, and one of the major difficulties is the contradiction between the original structure and the new functional space requirements.

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SW Oregon Architect

MAY 19, 2024

For one, Euclidean land-use regulations historically downzoned urban areas, effectively banning multifamily housing while promoting suburban sprawl. Apparently, a reason for Japan's success lies in its unusual degree of national control over zoning and building rules, which overrides local housing obstructionism. Lessons from Japan?

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Housing Zoning Government Regulation 202

BD+C

APRIL 19, 2019

Treasury Department and the Internal Revenue Service released new regulations and guidelines for investments in the 8,700 distressed or lower-income census tracts that governors across the country have designated as Opportunity Zones (OZs). On Wednesday, the U.S.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Each design tells a story not only of its function but also of the people, traditions and environment that shape it. They challenge preconceived notions and inspire innovative solutions, fostering a deeper connection between design and the diverse tapestry of human experience.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Architizer's 13th A+Awards features a suite of sustainability-focused categories recognizing designers that are building a greener industry and a better future. The idea behind it is to create a visual presentation that conveys the mood and emotion an architect or designer wants to achieve through their work.

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Space Architecture Contract Technology 112

SW Oregon Architect

MARCH 6, 2022

Enacted into law by the 2019 Oregon Legislature, HB 2001 requires that large cities (defined as cities with a population of 25,000 or more) must allow “middle housing” types in areas zoned R-1. The recipe for success includes sustaining the patterns that make older enclaves unique, but also demands creative, inspired new designs.

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Community Architect

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Professionals who are guided not only by rules, codes, and regulations but also by societal values. The tectonic shifts in Washington have removed many markers that design professionals also use to ensure they are on the right path. In the chaos a consideration of the foundational values of our professions might help.

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BD+C

AUGUST 9, 2019

With housing affordability reaching crisis proportions in many cities, local officials are implementing new zoning regulations to catalyze more home construction. Land-use rules that include density restrictions, and even some that influence aesthetics and design, restrict development.

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Deezen

JUNE 17, 2022

Set to be built in Guayaquil, the second-largest city in Ecuador, the cluster of residential towers designed by MVRDV is located on the river Guayas. Overlapping layers will allow for a variety of stepped areas on the base, which will serve as a community space with luxurious pools, lounge areas and recreational zones spread throughout.

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Real Estate Design Residential Regulation 145

Aric Gitomer Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Designing an outdoor space takes a lot more than a few trees or flower beds. Landscape architects or Landscape Designer could essay a critical role in developing your backyard to give your home the complete look. Review the Design. For more variations, the design could incorporate winding pathways and colorful schemes.

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BD+C

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Depending on local zoning regulations, that restriction often results in a structure that steps back, floor by floor, as it rises. Architecture firm ODA has turned that development model on its head in its design for 100 Norfolk Street in Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

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Regulation Zoning Architecture Firm Firms 95

Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

It would also strive for sustainability, beginning with a design and construction approach that would support the resorts goal of being as light on the land as possible, says Jenny McCullough, KOAs senior director of brand growth. Understanding all that underlying datathat sets a stage for the design, Haskell says.

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Deezen

JUNE 27, 2023

Situated in Brooklyn 's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighbourhood, the Narrow House was designed and developed by Adam Snow Frampton and Karolina Czeczek, the husband-and-wife team behind New York studio Only If. The home's shape, height and positioning were largely dictated by local zoning regulations. feet wide (30 by four metres).

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Deezen

JANUARY 11, 2022

Architecture studio Hooba Design Group has completed a brick-clad office building in Tehran , with a scooped-out central void to bring natural light deep into the building. The Hitra Office and Commercial Building was designed by Hooba Design Studio. The building's facade comprises tiered layers of brick.

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Building Commercial Design Regulation 128

Deezen

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Landscapes of the Netherlands informed the design of this office in Hoofddorp by local studio Firm Architects , which features a curving brick wall and reflective materials referencing the role of water in Dutch culture. The studio works nationally and internationally on projects that are defined by a user-centred and narrative-led approach.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 26, 2023

As Bevan has written , a decades-long agenda to promote traditionalist design and architecture under the cover of “beauty” appears to be paying off. Instead of serving as a medium for inclusive, equitable, and sustainable design, architecture is now too often a tool of propaganda, inflamed by the cauldron of social media.

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2024

Architizer’s Tech Directory is a database of tech tools for architects — from the latest generative design and AI to rendering and visualization , 3D modeling , project management and many more. In the realm of architectural design, “the plan” is considered one of the two fundamental drawings for creating space.

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Architizer

AUGUST 25, 2023

Plug in to the latest design discussions by subscribing. It could be a win-win situation if not for the red-tape bureaucracy — local building and zoning regulations — and the technical difficulties, including structural, energy/mechanical, accessibility and fire safety upgrades, among other requirements.

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Architizer

APRIL 7, 2025

But what becomes of wonder in a time ruled less by emperors and more by email, where the built environment is defined by regulation, restraint and value engineering rather than divine mandate and imperial will? They might never be monuments whose every design detail will be taught in schools for centuries, but they are moments of wonder.

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Architizer

JUNE 5, 2024

Ema is a trained architect, writer and photographer who works as a designer at B.I.G. The vast expanse of the southwest desert presents a unique challenge for architects and designers. These conditions necessitate innovative design solutions prioritizing energy efficiency, thermal comfort and resilience to withstand the harsh climate.

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Santa Cruz Architect

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Large enough to accommodate basic living functions, the limit also encourages efficient design and limits environmental impact. Furthermore, it aligns with zoning regulations often applied to accessory dwelling units (ADUs), offering tiny houses a potential avenue for legal placement. The answer lies in a delicate balance.

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