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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this

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Converting downtown office into multifamily residential: Let’s stop and think about this 0 dbarista Tue, 07/11/2023 - 10:44 Multifamily Housing Is the office-to-residential conversion really what’s best for our downtowns from a cultural, urban, economic perspective? Is conversion from office to multifamily really a good idea?

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Three interconnected solutions for 'saving' urban centers

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In the last three years, urban centers have been hammered by an unprecedented series of connected, compounding crises—from existential threats like the pandemic and climate change, to complex issues of safety, equity, and affordability. Office to residential repositioning at 1 St. ASLA Center for Landscape Architecture, Washington D.C.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture: Passive Solar.

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Green Home Building and Sustainable Architecture. Sustainable architecture is an exciting and important field, with many people reviving traditional methods of building and others creating innovations to established practices. Many specific examples and construction details are provided for both residential and larger scale projects.

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Cracking the code of affordable housing

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MFPRO+ Blog Mixed-Use Affordable Housing Senior Living Design Apartments Designers Architects New Project Portfolios A wave of residential projects rising across the country is meeting an insatiable demand, given the estimated shortage of 7.3 million homes that are accessible to low-income renters.

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Declines in Design Activity Suggest a Bumpier Road to Recovery

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The American Institute of Architects’ Architecture Billings Index indicated weak business conditions for the month of May. The Architecture Billings Index registered a score of 47.2 Residential is down 53.6 skip to main | skip to sidebar. Wednesday, July 20, 2011. registered in April. South is down 47.5 Midwest is down 45.9

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PSMJ Resources Blog: Firm Billings Continue Rise in December

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The American Institute Architects’ Architecture Billings Index increased for the second month in a row in December, marking the first two-month gain since February and March of 2011. By market sector: Residential is down 54.3 Construction Marketing Ideas. Architectural Record. West is down 45.1 South is down 54.2

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Builder of the Year Ivory Homes' Innovation Agenda

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The Ivory Prize debuted in September 2018 as a way to tap a wide variety of innovative ideas for construction and design, finance, and regulatory reform nationwide. What we’re looking for are innovative ideas that have the opportunity to scale and be picked up by different markets, and we want to support them,” Abby says.