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Michael Kimmelman again asks: 'Should New York regulate its skyline?'

Archinect

Developers have famously been manipulating the local zoning code governing allowable height in order to receive approvals, an issue Kimmelman has preached about in earnest for the past decade. The city currently only has one protected vista overlooking the Financial District from Brooklyn Heights.

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2021 showed the power of policy, codes, and regulations in the United States and around the world

Archinect

For reasons both tragic and optimistic, 2021 was a year where regulations and policy were never far from the media spotlight. To further explore this point, we have set out the key developments and stories throughout 2021 which showed the power of policy, codes, and regulations in architecture — be it at a fe.

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Journey to Energy Efficiency: 10 Spanish Homes Applying Bioclimatic Strategies and Designs

ArchDaily

What design, material, and/or technological strategies can be developed to achieve interior comfort while also addressing the climate crisis? Read more »

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An affluent California town is going to ridiculous lengths to get around affordable housing regulation

Archinect

Last week, officials in the enclave of 5,500 people announced that all of Woodside was exempt from a new state housing law that allows for duplex development on single-family home lots. The move is potentially foreshadowing of the ways in which local governments in California will, as predicted before Governor Gavin Newsome signed S.B.

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Nike developing AI model as part of design "step change"

Deezen

Sportswear brand Nike is developing its own generative AI model to design products using its vast bank of athlete data, Dezeen can reveal. It's a little bit of thinking about developing a private garden, of looking at our own datasets that are exclusive to Nike – so performance data from an athlete, from our laboratories, et cetera.

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New research about gas stoves ignited intense online debate last week about the politics of regulating American homes

The Architect's Newsletter

One would think that if the American public found out that a home appliance was causing children to potentially develop serious respiratory problems or was leaking chemicals like methane and [.].

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Cracking the Housing Affordability Nut

SW Oregon Architect

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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