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neutraVDL
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Contemporary Artists and the Modern House. Conference on Saturday October 4th and Sunday October 5th, 2014. At the MAK Center, Neutra VDL House, and Hollyhock House, Los Angeles. More About the Intervention Conference. Neutra VDL Studio and Residences. Http:/ www.csupomona.edu/ arc/faculty-sarah lorenzen.html. Http:/ www.bryonyroberts.com. VDL Exhibit grant: http:/ www.grahamfoundation.org/grantees/5016-inverting-neutra-an-installation-at-the-neutra-vdl-studio-and-residences-in-los-angeles. Is a curator,...
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. 30,000 units of housing by 2020 and James Baldwin looks at race relations in 1963 San Francisco. June 16, 2014 – 10:04 am. Come hear about the effort and the new policies that have been put into place. I know you have questions, so please stay until the end when the panel will take inquiries from the audience. I will be moderating and the panel will include:. Senior Adviser on Housing to Mayor Ed Lee. Director, San Francisco Department of Building Inspection.
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A warm February evening across from the Apple Store | Markasaurus
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. A warm February evening across from the Apple Store. Beyond the tangle of wires the shiny metal box that is the Apple Store, a reminder that many of the recent developments in city life have nothing to do with the construction of buildings or transport infrastructure but in the way we interact with them. February 16, 2015. This entry was posted in San Francisco. Ed Lee’s plans for “middle class” home buying & the math. What’s wrong with shipping container housing?
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Productive Landscapes
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THE INSTITUTE OF MARKING AND MEASURING. Thenorthroom: Tumbleweed House and Farm Scans. Jesse Vogler, Instructor. Washington University in St Louis. Venus Bivar, Agricultural Historian WashU. Matthew Fluharty, Poet Dir Art of the Rural. Kees Lokman, Landscape Architecture WashU. Richard Saxton, Artist Director M12 Collective. Mimi Zeiger, Author Editor. Doug Ladd, The Nature Conservancy. Donna Vestal, Harvest Public Media. Stan Cox, The Land Institute. Wes Jackson, The Land Institute. Jeff Day, UNL Min Day.
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After the Mission Bay fire: Construction types explained | Markasaurus
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. After the Mission Bay fire: Construction types explained. The Mission Bay construction site fire on March 11, 2014 as seen from a BART train in West Oakland (photo by author). Yesterday’s huge fire on a construction site in San Francisco. 8211; those are the buildings that are required to have warning labels next to the front door (you can’t build those buildings any more under current codes, for obvious reasons). What is the building code? Additionally, there ar...
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. 30,000 units of housing by 2020 and James Baldwin looks at race relations in 1963 San Francisco. June 16, 2014 – 10:04 am. Come hear about the effort and the new policies that have been put into place. I know you have questions, so please stay until the end when the panel will take inquiries from the audience. I will be moderating and the panel will include:. Senior Adviser on Housing to Mayor Ed Lee. Director, San Francisco Department of Building Inspection.
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Housing links for January 22, 2014 | Markasaurus
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. Housing links for January 22, 2014. Thanks to everyone that came to SPUR yesterday for the forum on housing construction costs, we’ll be having more events at SPUR on this topic including one that looks reducing the costs of providing housing on February 11. Just a quick post with a few things I’ve been reading and looking at this week:. New pending legislation in the city of San Francisco to limit TIC conversions and encourage more inclusionary affordable housing.
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“Why can’t developers build housing in San Francisco for the people who need it most instead of for the rich?” | Markasaurus
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. 8220;Why can’t developers build housing in San Francisco for the people who need it most instead of for the rich? Land cost per unit of housing: $120,000. Construction cost per unit (hard costs), which could be up to 30% higher in an all-concrete building: $300×800 s.f.: $240,000. Permits, city fees and professional services fees at 20% of $240,000, but this could easily be doubled on some projects: $48,000. Total cost so far: $435,000. You’re looking at nearly h...
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The Unintended Effects of Direct Democracy: Say “no” to ballot box planning on Proposition B June 3rd. | Markasaurus
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. The Unintended Effects of Direct Democracy: Say “no” to ballot box planning on Proposition B June 3rd. This year, Proposition B purports to make the planning process more fair by letting the public vote on any project that exceeds existing waterfront height limits. Sounds good, right? No more shady backroom deals! Everyone wins, right? But wait, we can bring the Ferry Building into compliance without going to a vote:. Maybe this seems like a frivolous exercise, b...
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About | Markasaurus
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Architecture, housing, planning and more. Mark Hogan AIA, LEED BD C is a licensed architect in the states of New York and California and is the principal at OpenScope Studio. He is also a Senior Lecturer in architecture at the California College of the Arts. In San Francisco where he worked on large infill affordable and market rate housing projects around the Bay Area and beyond. He has also worked for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill. 8216;s magazine The Urbanist, the print and web editions of Disegno.
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