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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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.

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SW Oregon Architect

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

This is not a regulated view corridor. In the context of urban planning, municipalities implement view corridors through zoning regulations, building height restrictions, and other planning measures. In many instances, this involves restricting the height of new developments within certain areas to maintain specific sightlines.

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Regulation Cities Diagram Zoning 225

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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Architizer

JANUARY 22, 2025

Zoning laws, in particular, seem to have been written with the assumption that families never change. To counteract this, many countries across Europe have introduced tax incentives for multi-family housing and single-parent developments to encourage innovation at scale and speed.

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SW Oregon Architect

APRIL 9, 2022

Despite this reality, developers build to turn a profit first rather than to supply housing for people who need it; larger, more expensive, and less affordable homes are the result. Local zoning and land use policies have also contributed to the present dilemma. Overlay districts and Special Area Zones are not the silver bullet.

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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. The type is a compelling alternative to the “5-over-1” model so prevalent for multifamily developments in the U.S. That’s hardly the case today. There are several reasons for this.

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Community Architect Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Does single family zoning prevent development? Today we will look at Baltimore Councilman Ryan Dorsey's zoning bill titled " Abundant Housing Act " which effectively will eliminate single family zoning in Baltimore. Will the suggested zoning bill endanger neighborhoods like this one?

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Zoning Regulation Permits Cities 98

The Architecture Designs

MARCH 29, 2025

Architects, in collaboration with HVAC professionals and building contractors, must consider insulation, ventilation, shading, and materials to create spaces that naturally regulate temperature, improving sustainability and reducing energy costs. Cross-ventilation, stack effect ventilation, and operable windows regulate airflow efficiently.

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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. Proponents assert existing z oning too often presents barriers to the development of demographically appropriate and desirable living options.

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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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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).

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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.

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Architizer

DECEMBER 16, 2024

For instance, smart material developments such as shape-memory alloys, electro-active polymers and even programmable materials can expand, contract or change properties is response to electrical or thermal stimuli, thus making it plausible to physically transform buildings.

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Space Architecture Contract Technology 111

Architizer

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Designing for clients from diverse cultural backgrounds or creating spaces in vastly different environments requires an architect to step outside their comfort zone and approach each project with fresh eyes. Architecture, when approached with a similar openness, offers the same rewards. Take, for instance, the use of local materials.

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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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Aric Gitomer Architect

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Landscape architects or Landscape Designer could essay a critical role in developing your backyard to give your home the complete look. Zoning and Linking. Several landscape architects might suggest creating micro zones within your backyard to designate roles. While you think about zoning, it is crucial to think about lighting.

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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. Firm in the center of turmoil: The North Star (Image: NASA) Developers rely on these frameworks to prioritize and direct their projects. Here professional organizations helped me to expand those notions.

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Santa Cruz Architect

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

The California Coastal Commission is a state agency with quasi-judicial regulatory oversight over land use and public access in the California coastal zone. Development Defined:? Development activities are broadly defined to include construction of buildings, divisions of land, and activities that change the intensity of use of land.

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Landscape Architecture Magazine

APRIL 2, 2025

Working largely within the sites existing footprint was important for other reasons too: In addition to a small historic cemetery, the mostly flat property contains protected palustrine wetlands, which are heavily regulated by land-use ordinances enforced by the local planning board.

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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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SW Oregon Architect

JULY 18, 2021

Presently, Section 9.2170 of the Eugene Code (Commercial Zone Development Standards) prescribes no minimum front yard setback in the C-2 (Community Commercial) and C-3 (Major Commercial) zones, whereas as amended they would be 5 feet and 3 feet, respectively. The maximum front yard setback would remain unchanged at 15 feet.

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Dwell

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

According to a New York Times story, the program will target areas of the city where zoning permits another unit to be added, but Mayor Eric Adams will be pushing for zoning changes in other areas to encourage more density.

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Deezen

APRIL 18, 2024

Barrault Pressacco designed 102Let to challenge typical suburban housing "Urban development zones are invested in by private developers who propose identical, copy-and-paste houses," Barrault Pressacco told Dezeen.

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Architizer

JANUARY 17, 2024

The software uses site data such as topography, flood maps and building regulations as well as additional parameters set by architects, to generate layout options for a plethora of building typologies: multi-housing projects, retail stores, hotels, industrial sites and even parking lots. Learn more and review this tool > CONIX.AI

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Architizer

AUGUST 25, 2023

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. Zoning Regulations Image by Eloi Smith via Unsplash.

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BD+C

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Recent advancements in structural design, combined with the loosening of density and zoning requirements, has opened the door for the so-called "superslim skyscraper.". Developers love the building type because they can finally take advantage of land that was previously unusable for large multifamily and mixed-use structures.

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e-architect

JULY 5, 2023

The municipality has earmarked Montaudran, an industrial zone to the southeast of the centre, for transformation into an urban neighbourhood. Toulouse is an important centre for aviation, research and education; the city is home to Airbus and a number of major universities, and wants – and needs – to expand.

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Brandon Donnelly

OCTOBER 15, 2022

This Twitter thread by Richard Wittstock of Domus Homes (developer out in Vancouver) is a timely follow-on to yesterday’s post about housing supply, land-use regulations, and specific policies such as inclusionary zoning. ” If the math doesn’t work, developers will not build new housing.

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Deezen

JUNE 24, 2023

Designed as part of a wider development alongside a kindergarten and student accommodation, the secondary school was created to encourage a retreat from traditional forms of education, with uniquely shaped forms adding a sense of creativity to the campus.

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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

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

Firm Architects has completed the Land over Water office in Hoofddorp Responding to the client's request for a design with a distinct narrative, Firm Architects drew on APPM's focus on sustainable development and its motto of "making the Netherlands more beautiful".

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Deezen

JUNE 17, 2022

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. The base and towers will have the appearance of asymmetrical stacked layers that, when viewed from above, resemble topographic models.

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Community Architect Daily

MARCH 8, 2024

Suburban fight against new development in Baltimore County (Photo: Baltimore Banner) Onerous regulations have been not only been a tool of separating use, race and class for a long time, they also control how many people can live in a given space, in other words: Density. Re-zoning: The hottest trend?

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Community Architect

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Or, more precisely, and even more mundane, the zoning that enables it. The culprit hides out in a section of municipal zoning code that is titled "Single family residential", frequently abbreviated as R1. The history of zoning Zoning in general rarely gets much attention these days. Let's review the battles lines.

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Zoning Regulation Cities Housing 95

Dwell

JUNE 26, 2022

Myriad state and county land-use restrictions complicate projects, and since Hawaii uses a general excise tax instead of a sales tax, transactions at every stage of development add costs. On the supply side, the Hawaii Housing Finance & Development Corporation develops and finances low- and moderate-income housing projects.

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Housing Real Estate Government Finances 143

Architizer

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Fostering Resilience Through City Initiatives and Guiding Principles Boston Coastal Flood Resilience Design Guidelines and Zoning Overlay District by Utile, Inc. This initiative will be facilitated by a future zoning overlay, encompassing areas at a 1% risk of coastal flooding by 2070. Boston, Massachusetts, United States.

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