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| | | Facelift | David Jameson ArchitectLike a sculptor paring away a block of stone, David Jameson’s renovation calmed this developer house’s overwrought elevations. Working within the house’s footprint and bearing walls, he quieted the exterior by removing gratuitous bump-outs and joining some of the first- and second-story windows vertically, while infilling others... |
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| | | Tangletown Telescope Addition | Robert Hutchison ArchitectureIn Seattle’s Tangletown neighborhood, a couple with a large dog asked Robert Hutchison to extend the rear of their 1913 Craftsman bungalow to strengthen its connection to the gardens and add much-needed guest and flex spaces. Like the doorways of their original house, a new short walkway between the old and added spaces is topped by a radius... |
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| | | Build for resiliency with propaneEnergy resilience is not a luxury — it’s now a necessity in home construction. A new Department of Energy report warns blackouts could increase 100x by 2030. That’s why builders are turning to propane — an affordable, reliable, on-site energy source that delivers when the grid can’t.
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| | | Year-over-Year Building Material Price Growth AdvancesPrice growth for residential building materials rose for the fourth straight month in August, reaching its highest level since January 2023. Across domestic inputs goods and services into residential construction, service prices decreased in August while goods prices slightly advanced... |
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| | | June Private Residential Construction Spending Edges HigherPrivate residential construction spending inched up 0.1% in June, registering the first monthly gain after six consecutive declines. This modest increase was primarily driven by more spending on single-family construction and home improvements. Despite this increase, total spending was... |
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| | | RDAA 2025 | Koechl House | rolfs elert officeBased in New York’s Westchester County, not far from Frank Lloyd Wright’s community of beloved Usonian homes, Rolfs Elert Office has quite a bit of experience with Midcentury Modern restorations and renovations. Their skill is apparent in how they revived and refreshed another midcentury gem: the Koechl House, located in the Connecticut countryside. |
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| | | RDAA 2025 | The Green House | S^A | Schwartz and ArchitectureAt first, the team at Schwartz and Architecture wasn’t sure what they could do to The Green House. Designed by Aaron Green, a protégé of Frank Lloyd Wright, the 1966 house is “a complete thought in itself,” says Neal Schwartz, FAIA. “It is a very iconic-looking house that is all roof, like a… |
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| | | RDAA 2025 | Hill East | Colleen Healey ArchitectureThe most successful historic renovation projects preserve the house’s memories in fresh, inventive ways. Colleen Healey, AIA, excels at such work. “The hardest thing with these old townhouses is that you want to preserve the pocket doors and formal spaces, but it’s hard to get the continuity of... |
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| | | RDAA 2025 | Overbrook Overlook | BNIMSteve McDowell, FAIA, made just the right changes to this tiny farm building that had been on his family’s land since 1960. Repurposed as a weekend cottage, it retains the exterior’s corrugated metal siding and southern yellow pine sheathing. After squaring off the interior with exposed plywood, Steve added a southern yellow pine… |
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| | | Growth for Custom Home BuildingNAHB’s analysis of Census Data from the Quarterly Starts and Completions by Purpose and Design survey indicates year-over year growth for custom home builders amid broader single-family home building weakness. The custom building market is less sensitive to the interest rate cycle than other forms of home building but is… |
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| | | Business Conditions for Architecture Firms Continue To Be Weak, AIA/Deltek ABI ReportsThe AIA/Deltek Architecture Billings Index (ABI) continues to weaken posting a score of 46.2 for July, down from 46.8 in June, indicating that a majority of firms are still experiencing declining firm billings. |
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| | | Single-Family Home Size: 2Q25 DataAn expected impact of the virus crisis was a need for more residential space, as people used homes for more purposes including work. Home size correspondingly increased in 2021 as interest rates reached historic lows. However, as interest rates increased in 2022 and 2023, and housing affordability worsened, the demand for home size… |
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