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AEC inspections are the key to financially viable office to residential adaptive reuse projects

About a year ago our industry was abuzz with an idea that seemed like a one-shot miracle cure for both the shockingly high rate of office vacancies and the worsening housing shortage. The seemingly simple idea of converting empty office buildings to multifamily residential seemed like an easy and elegant solution. However, in the intervening months we’ve seen only a handful of these conversions, despite near universal enthusiasm for the concept. 




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As cities grow ever more crowded, multifamily housing construction is more necessary than ever. Finding ways to compress housing into smaller spaces while still creating true homes calls for a complex blend of innovative design and engineering.

 

Multifamily Housing | Apr 18, 2017

Hanging Gardens-inspired CLT residential development proposed for Birmingham

Garden Hill will provide an ‘oasis-like residence’ for Birmingham’s growing, multicultural student population.

3D Printing | Apr 17, 2017

The Tokyo Pod Vending Machine resembles a giant game of Tetris in the sky

The building is designed to print and dispense its own dwellings in vending machine-obsessed Tokyo.

Multifamily Housing | Apr 10, 2017

Apartment deliveries will peak by mid-2017: Axiometrics report

A total of 343,582 apartment units will come onto the market in 2017, 55.7% of which in the first half of the year.

Mixed-Use | Apr 5, 2017

SOM-designed ‘vertical village’ is Thailand’s largest private-sector development ever

60,000 people will live and work in One Bangkok when it is completed in 2025.

High-rise Construction | Apr 4, 2017

Fifth tallest tower in the world opens in Seoul with the world’s highest glass-bottomed observation deck

Lotte World Tower’s glass-bottomed observation deck allows visitors to stand 1,640 feet above ground and look straight down.

Mixed-Use | Mar 27, 2017

The Plant brings terrace-to-table living to Toronto

Curated Properties and Windmill Developments have teamed up to create a mixed-use building with food as the crux of the project.

Multifamily Housing | Mar 24, 2017

Desirable L.A. neighborhood receives new 34-unit residential building

Killefer Flammang Architects designed the urban infill project.

High-rise Construction | Mar 22, 2017

Porsche Design Tower is, unsurprisingly, a car lover’s dream

The idea behind the residential tower was to provide residents with a full single family home in the sky, complete with a private garage and pool.

Multifamily Housing | Mar 15, 2017

Amenity-packed residential building is Zaha Hadid’s only NYC project

The building sits adjacent to New York’s popular High Line park and includes a $50 million penthouse.

Multifamily Housing | Mar 10, 2017

Bathroom ergonomics and design for a shifting demographic

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