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A4 Guide: The Six Phases of the Architectural Design Process

A4 Architects

This can establish “grandfathered” conditions that may apply to new project and impact planning and zoning calculations. These may be done with simple hand sketches, Sketch-Up models or even Computer Assisted Design (CAD) drawings, but they will tend to be very diagrammatic and simple.

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GRUNER&FRIENDS Develop New SWISS LIFE – KPMG HQ

Architizer

The building was stripped down to its bare structure which is kept to retain the building’s zoning privileges. Patrice Gruner: A book with a world map inspired me to sketch up the concept for the client. The building was stripped down to its bare structure which is kept to retain the building’s zoning privileges.

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The Architect's Questionnaire: Daniel Toole

Portland Architecture

My grandfather was an engineer as well, who taught me how to sketch and draft with a t square in his workshop, and when I saw what was possible with the Wright book, I was hooked. I am going through my first significant permitting process with them on our Lombard apartment building, so I have to be careful what I say here!

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The misleading narratives about Harborplace

Community Architect Daily

All that was done with the mindset of the Inner Harbor as Baltimore's Commons, open to all and all happened without violating the zoning rules or the Harbor masterplan that conceived the Inner Harbor as a large public space with some generally low height attractions sprinkled within. Would a new attraction hurt? Not one would dare.

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Two Sheds | DREAMER

ArchiDiaries

Roger is Managing Director of NH Architecture and over the course of the next 7 years, he and Jane designed a house and obtained a planning permit for the site. The client contributed a beautiful axonometric sketch that helped to solidify the form of the project. The site was purchased by Roger and Jane Nelson in 2010. The Building.

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The Downcity Plan, II

Architecture Here and There

Sketch of the quadrangle proposed for Johnson & Wales’ campus on Weybosset Street. In equilibrium it may still be very difficult to line up the permits and secure the finances necessary to move a project forward in Providence, but the conditions that provide incentives to do so push developers and entrepreneurs to persevere.

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Explorers at Home

Landscape Architecture Magazine

We were in a big sunny clearing near the entrance zone in the Upper Garden, where there is a neat compound of small work buildings and greenhouses surrounded on three sides by dark curtains of conifers. An early hand sketch by Richard Hartlage, Affiliate ASLA, of planting for the Pollinator and Habitat Garden. Courtesy Land Morphology.

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