On the rare occasions when owners of vacant lots in historic districts decide to construct new buildings, there are a couple workable design strategies to choose from.

Their architect can create a contemporary building that contrasts with the surrounding properties or replicate a building that stood on the site in the past.

Architect Gerald Caliendo chose the latter course of action when drawing up plans for a brand-new rowhouse at 324 Macon St., a 17-foot-wide lot now used to park cars. The city Landmarks Preservation Commission unanimously approved his design on Tuesday.

Related: Rare new construction planned in the Brooklyn Heights Historic District

The lot had been empty since the 1960s, when a home constructed around 1889 was demolished, the commissions designation report about the Bedford Stuyvesant/Expanded Stuyvesant Heights Historic District says. Inspired by a 1940s photo of the house that had stood on the site, he drew up a design for a three-story brownstone with a bay window thats two stories tall.

A contractor will custom-make historically accurate facade elements such as window surrounds for the two-family home. Caliendo told the commissioners he will do highly detailed drawings for the contractor to work from.

Commissioner Frederick Bland cautioned Caliendo to work with LPC staff members to get the details just right.

Wrong moves could make this into a mishmash, Bland said.

LPC Chairperson Sarah Carroll also advised Caliendo to work with the preservation agencys staff members.

And Carroll said its acceptable for the architect to use brownstone-colored cast stone for 324 Macon St.s facade. This construction material is precast concrete thats made to look like natural stone.

The owner of the lot at 324 Macon St. is developer Sharon Hakmon, who bought the land through an entity called 132 NY Realty Corp. for $120,000 in 2013, city Finance Department records show.

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Dear Sir,

I have just discovered that a rare miracle has occurred, as the Council of Architecture (CoA) India has now a practising architect at the helm!!

It is almost an anomaly for to see things going right for architects since a while now, but as this queer twist of fate has occurred, that too at an hour of crisis, I cant help myself sending you an SOS as a citizen who is suffering a lawless real estate and construction sector.

If I summarise the current state of affairs, architecture that was once conceived as a profession by Indian parliament through the enactment of Architects Act, 1972 has now become a business that can be done by any Amar, Akbar and Anthony. The net result is, the nation has lost its only moral guardian who was statutorily designed (and expected) to stand up for the greater good using this empowerment in a sector that has huge social importance.

Thanks to various litigations, the architect that the parliamentarians who had enacted Architects Act must have hoped for is now almost dead, and that is got me worried as a citizen of a nation that is on the verge of building like never before.

As I want my architect back at this hour of catharsis of India, to ensure that builders and developers are forced to build well-designed buildings that arent just constructed to make money but are also aligned to societal and human needs.

I want my architect back and empowered, to stop the lawlessness in construction that has turned our cities into chaotic nightmares that rob millions of people a quality of life they deserve as human beings.

And I think you can do it if you try. And if you want, we will be blamed by coming generations to have constructed a third world country instead of a first-world nation.

As there is a way forward that I want you to consider.

Sir, the first, foremost but toughest task for a president of CoA should be to bring architects together to stand up for themselves, but I am not too optimistic for that as architects, probably by the very nature of their training, are unable to herd together and be a united front that can stand up, so I would leave that in a wish list (as an optimist) and suggest some simple and executable ideas for your kind consideration.

I suggest that first thing you must do is to ensure that CoA starts engaging meaningfully and directly with the engineers to resolve a completely unnecessary war that CoA has initiated through the Conditions of Engagement and Scale of charges since ages.

If there is one single reason behind self-destruction CoA has brought upon the profession of architecture, it is a completely unsustainable claim that architects can render engineering services, especially structural engineering.

Various litigations (that have undermined the profession now to a level that all that architects are left with is a meaningless right to use the word architect and nothing more) have happened because CoA, probably blinded by self-imagined empowerment due to having Architects Act (while engineers are still without Engineers Act), has tried usurping the turf from engineers.

If you want to save the profession of architecture and also have the world looking at your claim to exclusivity seriously, you need to approach the engineers (and courts if need be) with a clean hand by purging out the claims about architects having the competence to provide engineering services from the Conditions of Engagement and Scale of charges from the CoAs manual of professional practice.

Though it may be a bit too late now, as a person who is watching India making some dramatic changes, I still feel that it is possible to sit with engineers and find an amicable division of scope, and hence I have one more suggestion for you to consider.

As the first requirement for resolving the conflict is to define architectural services in a manner that architects dont trade on the toes of engineers, I propose a division in scope for both that can also be practically tested even by a court of law if need be.

The simplest division can be proposed from a reasonable claim that Architecture is Integration of Human Needs with a building, while Engineering is Integration of Technologies with a building.

It is possible to verify this claim by looking at the focus of curriculums of both branches, as architects are primarily trained to understand human and social needs, while engineers are primarily trained to understand technologies and their applications.

With this definition in mind, if CoA accepts the idea of team based approached as proposed (mostly by engineers) in National Building Code, it is still possible to get a first amongst the equals status for architects due to a fair claim that humans are more important in a building than technologies and hence, any decision where architects and engineers have a conflict, architect must have a right to prevail upon the engineers decision (ps: only in a building or parts therein that is used by humans).

If we take a simple example of such a conflict where a structural engineer may find that the most efficient structural design of a staircase is when the headroom under the stair is 1.5 meters, it must be overruled by the architect who would have to stand up for the human need of having a headroom exceeding 1.8 meters.

So, in a situation where engineering optimisation is not suitable for human use, humans must get priority through their representative in a team that is designing a building, i.e. the architect.

If you start a discourse with engineers on these lines and start building confidence on both ends, it is possible for both the brothers in arms to come together and fight a common battle on behalf of the citizens of India who need to have resurrection of empowered professionals from both the branches to curb the rising market forces driven by the greed of builders and contractors who are not interested in anything but the profit they can make.

Sir, if you can start this much-needed process of peace-making with engineers, a lot more issues (eg. Liability sticking to architects in case of the collapse of a building thanks to CoA-claimed ability to design structures) will get resolved and India can have both the professions working in cohesion for building a better future.

We need our architect and we need our engineer too, and this would be possible only when both of you stop fighting and come together for the sake of building a better, safer and more habitable India.

A citizen who just has a simple wish to live in a safer home and a safer city

DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.

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Open letter, or rather SOS to the incoming president of Council of Architecture - Economic Times

A group of Dalhousie architecture students is pushing for better green-design education from their faculty and the greater architecture community.

It's been four months since an informal meeting about environmental design principles (not previously covered in the university curriculum) led to the creation of the Supernatural Design Collective.

The summer's 36-person study group has now grown to include just over a hundred other classmates, academics and professionals within Dalhousie's School of Architecture, all promoting environmentally responsible architecture in study and practice through workshops, lectures and inter-university networking.

According to the United Nations, human-built structures account for about 40 percent of global energy use, while Canada's Environment and Sustainable Development Committee reports buildings emit 12 percent of the country's greenhouse gases. That's more than agriculture or waste.

Dalhousie architecture student and organizer Laure Nolte says she and her colleagues feel they aren't being prepared to design environmentally responsible buildings in order to combat their field's significant impact on the growing climate crisis.

In the current course content "sustainability seems like an optional choice instead of being integrated from the very beginning of the design process. I don't think we have an option to choose whether we want to be sustainable or not. We need to be demanding and advocating for architectural projects that weave regeneration and ecological design into projects from the beginning," says Nolte.

In just one semester the collective has drafted a manifesto which outlines its goals. It wants the architectural community to not only focus on sustainability, but to design buildings that actually involve and restore nature, and it wants to ensure that the character and health of neighbourhoods, and the needs of marginalized communities are taken into account in all design.

Nolte adds that the design principles the collective wants to see aren't just theoreticalthey already exist.

In Dartmouth, for instance, NSCC's Centre for Built Environment was designed to positively participate with surrounding ecosystems. Interior and exterior living walls and green roofs use vegetation to naturally ventilate the building and help regulate temperature, while rain-capturing systems irrigate them and the surrounding grounds.

Buildings that weren't designed with the environment in mind can also be improved. Across the harbour the Ecology Action Centre recently used an office renovation to retrofit their north end headquarters. Alongside retaining the building character and improving efficiency, Solterre Design, the firm that worked on the project, estimates about 40 tonnes of wood were saved by opting not to rebuild. Unlike cement, wood and other natural materials suck up carbon, much like a forest, keeping it out of the atmosphere.

But Nolte says these are the exceptions; most existing buildings and developments in HRM don't do enough to minimize their environmental impact.

Halifax principle planner Kasia Tota says most of that choice is currently up to developers. "We've done some policy around green roofs and open spaces that will create better buildings, but in terms of actual sustainability of buildings themselves, we're limited in what we can require under the Land Use Bylaw." The city must work within the framework of the province's building code, which doesn't regulate building sustainability. The recently approved Centre Plan Package A encourages sustainable development, but doesn't incentivize it. Tota says there could be incentives included in Package B, which is still being drafted, for developers who design greener buildings.

Last week, the collective has met with Joseli Macedo, Dalhousie's dean of architecture and planning, who said she was she's pleased students are taking an active role in working to combat the climate crisis through their field. Not bad for a study group.

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A few years ago, according to architect Jeffrey Mandyck, the McKnight Foundation and AIA Minnesota decided to establish an award that would honor those who excel at producing design for developments that are regenerative (more about that later) and resilient for people, communities and for the environment.

That effort stemmed from a need to establish a clear definition and common language among developers, design professionals, general contractors, public agencies and the general public.

An AIA Minnesota task force that includes experts and researchers from the professional architecture community worked closely with Richard Graves and the team he leads at the University of Minnesotas Center for Sustainable Building Research (CSBR) to develop a new model. That team also collaborated with the Us Minnesota Design Center and New Orleans-based Colloqate Design.

The result? The 21st Century Development (21CD) model and matrix. Mandyck explains more about this cutting-edge program.

Q: What does it mean to be regenerative community?

A: 21CD strives to provide a healthy environment for all people and living systems now and in a dynamic future. It is part of AIA Minnesotas broader effort to inspire agency and accelerate action toward a better built environment for all.

Q: Whats the overall goal of the 21CD model?

A: The model is primarily focused on guiding developers private, public and nonprofit but we crafted it with policymakers and community leaders in mind, as well. We need policy solutions that accelerate our progress along the path, and the public needs to be able to envision and advocate for a better built environment. Weve started to identify how much running room there actually is before major barriers impede progress along the path to regenerative development in each of the performance areas: Place, energy, water, health and happiness, materials, equity and beauty. Our advocacy efforts will work to address those barriers.

Q: Are the requirements just suggestions?

A: Lets call them prescriptive suggestions each cell in the matrix includes a description, as well as approaches needed, to achieve a specific outcome. The desire with 21CD is to make all of these approaches more commonplace in private, public and nonprofit development. In defining and measuring success, we have to start accounting for the whole of how a development project is initiated, designed and executed, and the broad array of near-term and long-term impacts of that development.

Q: Does compliance cost more?

A: That depends on what degree of performance one is striving to achieve, and on some external factors. The performance matrix does note where one might encounter financial limitations. Its often due to implementation of infrastructures and systems that extend well beyond a developments boundaries, and yet the benefits and outcomes of that approach have positive impacts that reach beyond the borders of the development as well. Approximately 75 to 80% of the approaches in the matrix are adaptable with little to no additional development cost.

Q: Is Fields of St. Croix the only local case study so far?

A: There are several exciting public and private developments underway in our region that are making progress in areas relevant to 21CD. In the past year, we have established research teams who have been working closely with private developments and public/government agencies leading the way in 21CD practices. These research partners include Towerside Innovation District and its Malcom Yards development, Rochester Destination Medical Center and the City of Minneapolis 2040 Plan.

Q: Most of the cases you cite are in Europe, why?

A: Europe is ahead of us. They have more than three times the density; a more equitably distributed per capita income and greater subsidies retaining agricultural lands surrounding cities.

Q: Are these case studies being tested?

A: Not at this time. Having said that, as design professionals, we always advocate for our clients to have their completed designs/systems tested to verify that they are performing as designed. 21CD is not intended to be another certification system that requires analysis; we have many of those in place already. It can be used in concert with those other certification systems and to enhance development projects from planning through execution. Richard Graves describes the potential impact of 21CD as radical incrementalism. Every project can be plotted on the matrix, and every project can find opportunities to move up the scale in resilient development. And every advancement helps us improve our built environment.

Q: How was the 21CD model developed?

A: After reviewing a wide array of frameworks and certifications, we chose the Living Community Challenge as our base. We worked to make the living level of the Living Community Challenge more actionable, showing that we can get there one step at a time. We worked with CSBR to add the regenerative level to the framework, because this is whats possible today its what we can all be working toward. And we collaborated with Colloqate Design to strengthen the equity performance area at all levels. It is intended to address regenerative potential across more than environmental performance to create welcoming, sustainable communities for all.

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Minnesota architect talks of the need to promote a better built environment for all - Minneapolis Star Tribune

in the dutch village of lijnden, arjen reas architects has realized house akerdijk for a single family. due to the site position on the akerdijk dyke, the project challenged the design team to create a building that embraces views out across the water and works with the level difference that is present because of the embankment.

early evening shot of the front faade

all images luc buthker

the form of the building has been designed by arjen reas architectsto reflect the context and conditions of the site. a steeply pitched roof mirrors the adjacent house but the new intervention also takes on a more contemporary expression by means of the black wooden ventilated faade and the black metal standing seam clad roof. the front elevation is punctured by two large protruding windows, which offer views over the water.

the entrance from the dyke

to the rear of the house, a large glazed faade opens out to a deep garden and the city of amsterdam in the distance. this expansive window works to emphasize the horizontality of the broad ground floor while also blurring the line between indoor and outdoor space, effectively making the interior of the house feel larger than it actually is.

back view of the terrace

the program of house akerdijk is split over two storys. due to the difference in ground elevation, the first floor is split in two levels, with an office and tv room on the dyke level and through a wide staircase you can reach the sitting area with the kitchen, where there is a view of the deep back garden and adjoining terrace. on the first floor, the family has two kids rooms, two bathrooms and a large master bedroom with a view out across the dyke.

room to read/watch tv or just to relax

height differences because of the dyke

main stairway with a direct entrance to the living

open connection from the bedroom to the bathroom

bedroom view

view from the dyke

early evening view from the dyke

view from the rear

view of the front elevation across the water

project info:

project name: house akerdijk

location: lijnden, netherlands

architect: arjen reas architects

client: private

phase: build

year: 2019

photographer: luc buthker

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Chinatown LA. Photo by flickr user Raymond Yu

A group of architects atNAC Architecture in Chinatown LA have come together to raise money for the students at Castelar Elementary School located just a few blocks from their office.

We are a community-focused practice, and we love the community were in. So a chance to help our neighbors and learn from each other is a valuable investment of our time, said Helena Jubany, FAIA, a Principal at NAC Architecture, There are lots of talented artists at design firms, so why not mobilize them for a cause?

After identifying a need for laptops at his kids' school, Edwin Fang, an architect at the firm, foundedBoundary/Threshold,an art show and silent auction that will be held at the Eastern Project Gallery in Chinatown. As its name suggests, the theme of Boundary/Threshold centers around an idea of transition.

The art for the event explores this notion by examining aspects such as geometry, rhythm, color, materiality, and more. In addition to NAC's staff, the exhibition will also feature the donated work of Taiwanese-American visual artist James Jean, Hong Kong native and LA local illustrator Victo Ngai, and international artist/painter/muralist Tommii Lim.

The exhibition and auction will be on December 11 @6pm.

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Los Angeles architects band together to raise funds for local elementary school - Archinect

TimeofWater: Water as a dimension of time.The theme of the third Pisa Biennale has really hit the nail on the head right now, with so many parts of Italy suffering from the consequences of so much rain with floods, mudslides and landslips.Alfonso Femia, guest director of the organisation LP - Laboratorio Permanente per la Citt - said, in fact, that the theme was defined on the basis of the full awareness of a critical situation that has a huge impact on the territory and on the environment, on buildings and on future - and present - prospects.This sets the scene for the contribution of the Rome-based studio,SET Architects, completed in collaboration with theMuseum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana, which had developed the Living with Water installation for the Slovenia pavilion at the 16th Architecture Biennale in Venice. For Pisa, SET Architects further developed its Floating Life project, conceived for Ljubljansko Barje, a former marshy area along the Ljubljanica river, in reference to the cyclical nature of water. They used high-end technology to transform these dried out wetlands into amphibious-hybrid buildings.The installation by SET Architects evolves the concepts of Floating Life intoThe Cyclical Time of Watertherefore focuses not so much on harnessing the forces of an increasingly unpredictable nature caused by the climate crisis, but on how we can tenaciously respond to a changing environment. So,we should be able to develop habitats based on synergy between man and nature ... that are capable of adapting to changing environmental conditions.On the one hand, these ideas have been transposed into the project for the Barje district in the southern part of thecity of Ljubljana, where the idea is to turn these existing dried-up wetlandsinto an active system of liveable and navigable bases thanks to innovative urban development. On the other, to reach a wider audience, SET Architects worked with multi-award winning director and Visual Designer,Miruna Dunuto create a really outstanding brief that addresses this cyclical time of water.Mirunu Dunu uses her creativity as a storytelling device for the idea of the cyclical nature of this element that brought life to our planet, and to get across the thoughts of the design team in less than 3 minutes:Water nourishes all things; it is a matrix, a mother, and the principle of genesis. Everything is born from water and returns to water, while it remains eternal, the source and end of all things.She didnt resort to harrowing images of disasters, which were all used to seeing in a world where photography is the order of the day. She works withthe apparent simplicity of the graphics created ad hocfor the video to get across the importance of water and its effect on our future.The viewer is mesmerised by the primordial charm of the water and this almost playful approach to one of the major issues that will decide the future of the human species: are we capable of adapting to the rhythms of the Timeofwater?Christiane Brklein

Biennale di Pisa Tempodacquafrom 21 November to 1 December 2019Arsenali Repubblicani, Pisa, ItalyImages: SET Architects, screenshots Miruna DunuContribution ofSET ArchitectswithMiruna DunuFind out more:https://www.biennaledipisa.com/

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Financial Architects Inc grew its stake in shares of iShares Gold Trust (NYSEARCA:IAU) by 168.9% during the third quarter, according to the company in its most recent disclosure with the SEC. The fund owned 13,406 shares of the exchange traded funds stock after buying an additional 8,420 shares during the quarter. Financial Architects Incs holdings in iShares Gold Trust were worth $189,000 as of its most recent SEC filing.

Several other hedge funds and other institutional investors also recently bought and sold shares of IAU. First Allied Advisory Services Inc. increased its position in shares of iShares Gold Trust by 17.2% during the third quarter. First Allied Advisory Services Inc. now owns 106,183 shares of the exchange traded funds stock worth $1,499,000 after acquiring an additional 15,584 shares in the last quarter. Signet Investment Advisory Group Inc. increased its position in shares of iShares Gold Trust by 51.3% during the third quarter. Signet Investment Advisory Group Inc. now owns 478,490 shares of the exchange traded funds stock worth $6,747,000 after acquiring an additional 162,290 shares in the last quarter. Cetera Advisor Networks LLC increased its position in shares of iShares Gold Trust by 29.1% during the third quarter. Cetera Advisor Networks LLC now owns 235,017 shares of the exchange traded funds stock worth $3,319,000 after acquiring an additional 52,960 shares in the last quarter. Tiedemann Advisors LLC increased its position in shares of iShares Gold Trust by 15,407.9% during the third quarter. Tiedemann Advisors LLC now owns 1,550,788 shares of the exchange traded funds stock worth $21,867,000 after acquiring an additional 1,540,788 shares in the last quarter. Finally, D.A. Davidson & CO. increased its position in shares of iShares Gold Trust by 35.0% during the third quarter. D.A. Davidson & CO. now owns 124,578 shares of the exchange traded funds stock worth $1,757,000 after acquiring an additional 32,268 shares in the last quarter.

Shares of IAU stock opened at $13.98 on Friday. iShares Gold Trust has a 52-week low of $11.66 and a 52-week high of $14.90. The company has a 50-day simple moving average of $14.16 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $13.78.

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The Boston Planning & Development Agency (BPDA) has long kept 3D models of its city. However, cobbled together over the years, the files are at times cumbersome and as firms increasingly turn to 3D printing for model making and testing, not so useful. Printers dont know how to process them or they are not designed in a way that print with stability. MakeTANK, an initiative of the Boston Society of Architects (BSA) saw this as an opportunity.

MakeTANK was initially started to integrate maker culture into the design process, according to Sasaki director of technical resources Bradford J. Prestbo, who has been intimately involved with the project along with the rest of the firm. The hope was to leverage the many makers and maker spaces in the greater Boston area, and help architects increase client engagement and decrease contractor riskand costby testing their designs out first. Imagine going into a restaurant where the chef only wrote recipes and has never actually cooked them, said Prestbo, half-joking. Thats kind of like the architectural profession today, where we just do a lot of paper architecture and paper designs without going through the process to actually taste what weve coupled together to make sure its actually an effective solution that also will perform long term.

City Print is MakeTANKs latest project, just announced at ABX19, though its been under development for over a year. The collaborative team of architects that came together for City Print developed a series of scripts that helped turn the existing models of Boston into watertight solids, meaning that when processed in Grasshopper they can be effectively fed into 3D printers. They also added additional topographic details. The process, however, could not be fully automated.

The files have to be individually opened, the scripts ran, and all of it double and triple checked for quality control. To help convert the over 200 model tiles of the city to be 3D ready, MakeTANK has enlisted the whos who of Boston-area architects. We are engaging in the greater AEC community to help us process the tiles, explained Jay Nothoff, Sasaki fabrication studio manager, and then turning around and handing this resource back to that same community as a finished project for everyone to enjoy and use as they will further project work.

The revamped models will be added to the BPDAs free repository and the BSA is using them themselves. Theyll be replacing their lobbys current scale model of the citythe basis of which was originally designed in the 1980s and is mostly focused on the financial districtwith a new, modular replica made from these printed files. Were zooming out from the financial district, said Nothoff. Were including the City of Boston in its entirety and were making a model that is easily updated because it is built off a grid system. As portions of the city change and grow, these titles are semi-precious at best; theyre just going to be held in place with magnets so we can pull the tile and put a new one in its place to most accurately represents the City of Boston in its current state.

Felipe Francisco, an architectural designer at Sasaki, went on to explain that many community groups didnt feel represented by the previous BSA model. Were open to try and create a new dialogue with those groups, explained Francisco. We want to use this as a resource for community groups to be able to come in and use this model to diagram stories over it through projection mapping about their communities. By collaborating with visualization experts, the BSA is developing tools to use the re-built model as a storytelling and visualization device. The intention is to build a base projection for the model itself that delineates roads, waterways and what have you, said Nothoff. On top of that could be layered information on sea-level rise, income data, other metrics, or more abstract visuals. Were reaching out to various organizations throughout the greater Boston area, such as the Boston Foundation, to help us gather all the voices that are currently feeling underrepresented and give them equity with his model and teach them how to use the projection map on to the model and tell their story.

The process is ongoing. Interested area firms can check out tiles from a grid of the city, and for a dose of healthy competition, check out a leader board. You grab a tile, fill out a form, and submit it and shortly thereafter you get all the support files and the working files and scripting as well as instructions on how to process them, explained Prestbo.

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