Multifamily Housing
All renderings couretsy Helmut Jahn.
Helmut Jahn designed the project.
Courtesy Magnusson Architecture and Planning
Magnusson Architecture and Planning designed the building.
Reata Glen, designed by KTGY Architecture + Planning for Spieker Senior Development, is a 480-unit life plan community that opened in May in Rancho Mission Viejo, Calif. Photo: Matthew Anderson
Ben Seager, AIA, Named KTGY’s New 75+ Service-Enriched National Practice Area Leader
A large dune will protect Cinnamon Shore South, a 300-acre subdivision in Port Aransas, Texas, that is one of several mixed-used projects under construction there. Images: Sea Oats Group
Three mixed-use communities in Port Aransas are expanding.
ALl renderings courtesy FXCollaborative
FXCollaborative designed the building.
A new study wonders how many retiring adults will be able to afford housing.
Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies focuses on growing income disparities among people 50...
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All renderings: Paperfarm
RAMSA designed the project.
Video surveillance cameras can enhance security at apartment and condominium communities, but they're not the total solution, according to security consultant Michael Silva, CPP. Photo: radionyx/stock.adobe.com
“Cameras can be part of a security program, but they’re not the security solution itself.” That’s...
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Renderings courtesy Plant Prefab
It is Plant Prefab’s first multifamily system.
Renderings courtesy Dattner Architects
Dattner Architects is designed the project.
Minneapolis-based Dominium owns or manages more than 30,000 apartment units at over 200 sites in 22 states,
Dominium receives eight MADACS Awards
Photo courtesy Prescient
Prescient combines 5D software, clever engineering, and advanced robotics to create prefabricated...
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Project Open, a net-zero energy, $16 million, 112-unit rental community in Salt Lake City’s Guadalupe neighborhood. Utah artist Chuck Landvatter painted the seven-story, 30-foot-wide mural of a man and girl (modeled on the artist’s daughter). Photo: Brandon Hyatt Photography
Project Open has no carbon footprint, but the six-story, solar-powered building is already leavin...
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Matt Gough, Director of Innovation and Work Winning, Mace Group
From building prefab factories in the sky to incubating the next generation of AEC tech startups,...
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No humans necessary. A transfer platform slides under the car's wheelbase and positions the vehicle to be parked automatically in a basement of 500 Walnut. Image: Westfalia Technologies
This is the first “palletless” system that Westfalia Technologies has installed.
Hewitt architects is designing the project.
Renderings courtesy RKTB
RKTB Architects is designing the project.
Courtesy Pixabay
Year-over-year growth tops 3% for 13th month. Will the economy stifle momentum?
Capitol 650, a new construction 351-unit residential community designed by KTGY Architecture + Planning and developed by Lennar Multifamily Communities is located in Milpitas, Calif. Capitol 650 sits directly across the street from the future Milpitas BART station and adjacent to the existing VTA Light Rail Station in the city of Milpitas’ Transit Area Specific Plan. Photo: Les Tirmenstein, courtesy KTGY Architecture + Planning
Humphreys & Partners, KTGY, SCB, CallisonRTKL, and Perkins Eastman top the rankings of the na...
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Whirlpool washer and dryer in one machine can provide laundering solutions in apartments with limited space.
Whirlpool washer and dryer in one machine can provide laundering solutions in apartments with lim...
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Wilsonart, maker of Enchanted Rock Traceless Cabinets and other products, is about to acquire Czech manufacturer Technistone.
U.S. manufacturer Wilsonart, maker of High Pressure Laminate, Quartz, Solid Surface, Coordinated...
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Students working in a communal space. Photo courtesy GBBN
When it comes to the design and space planning of your residence life program, the quality of the...
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The mural of a plant indigenous to Brooklyn's Fort Greene neighborhood adorns a building's exterior wall that's visible to residents of a recently opened apartment building. Image: Evan Joseph
A 90-foot mural overlooks the courtyard of a new residential building.
Organized Living closet systems were installed in all units at 20 Fulton East by dealer Rayhaven Group.
20 Fulton Street East is a 12-story residential community in downtown Grand Rapids, Mich., develo...
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Rendering courtesy Magnusson Architecture + Planning
Magnusson Architecture + Planning is designing the project.
The late Victorian structure at 859 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Mass., has been fully upgraded to “near” net-zero energy standards. The 7,500-sf home can shelter 10 homeless women and their children. Photo: Bruce T. Martin
The 1885 Victorian home in Cambridge, Mass., gets a new, energy-efficient life as Renae's Place,...
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Photo: Pixabay
The most important benefit of offsite construction, when done right, is reliability.
Ori Pocket Closet opens (via black button) for access to clothes, etc. Pocket Closet comes with 110 cubic feet of storage, 140 inches of hanging space, a desk, 48-inch TV nook, LED lighting, three outlets, and two USB ports and adds the equivalent of 40 square feet of usable space to an apartment. Cost: $3,000 to $7,000. Photo: Ori Living
This robotically controlled, space-saving furniture system can add more than 100 square feet of u...
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Ori Studio Suite comes with a full or queen bed, a dining table or desk, a 50- or 60-inch TV nook, up to 133 cubic feet of storage, 48 to 60 inches of space to hang clothes, LED lighting, six outlets, and two USB ports. The system “adds” up to 136 of usable square footage to the unit. Cost: $7,000 to $15,000, depending on order quantity. Photo: Ori Living
Meet Ori Living's robotically controlled, space-saving furniture system.
Image by F. Muhammad from Pixabay
Using RSMeans data from Gordian, here are the most recent construction costs for low-rise and mid...
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