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Californias Kaiser Permanente is investing $1.7 billion into expansions and construction at four of its locations in Riverside County.

They include its Riverside and Moreno Valley hospitals and its Murrieta and Wildomar medical offices, according to The Press-Enterprise.

The projects will increase accessibility to medical services and make more specialized care available closer to home, said Dr. Sammy Totah, senior vice president and area manager for Kaisers Riverside County area, in a statement.

A five-story hospital and two-story diagnostic and treatment facility are being added to Riverside Medical Center for an estimated $735.4 million.

The 95-foot hospital tower will have 152 beds, including 116 single-occupancy rooms and 36 neonatal intensive care unit rooms, bringing total bed count to 298. New emergency and surgical departments will also be added, along with eight operating rooms, 58 emergency treatment bays and a 70-foot-high, five-story parking garage.

The additions will create 330 new jobs, and are expected to be in completion the first quarter of 2027.

The Moreno Valley Medical Center will be expanded 93,000 square feet with a two-story diagnostic and treatment building, six operating rooms, a radiology room, a 27-bay post-anesthesia care unit, and a six-bed neonatal care unit.

The estimated cost is $250.2 million. Its opening is predicted in the third quarter of 2023.

In Murrieta, Kaiser is building a second, 88,900-square-foot medical office building for an estimated $124.8 million. It will include an ambulatory surgery unit with six operating rooms and a 26-bay post-anesthesia care unit; 19 provider offices, 26 exam rooms, a 14-bay chemotherapy center, and imaging services.

Completion is expected in the first quarter of 2023.

The healthcare system is also moving its Wildomar medical office to an 84,000-square-foot outpatient center that will house 61 provider offices and 79 exam rooms, and provide primary care, pediatrics, optometry, allergy, dermatology, and other specialty services.

The project is estimated to cost $116.5 million and is expected to be completed in the fourth quarter of 2024.

Kaiser will also pay $473.1 million for other upgrades at various facilities in Riverside County.

Totah says the completion dates are tentative due to supply-chain challenges in Southern California.

The Riverside project will begin in September. The others are underway.

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BI/22/01159/DOM: Rustic, Main Road. Siting of a static caravan in the rear garden to be used as ancillary accommodation.

BI/22/01905/DOM: Birdham Straight House, Main Road. Demolition of existing single storey extensions and garages. Erection of replacement single storey extensions and single garage with drive and parking spaces.

BI/22/01925/DOM: Danesacre, Lock Lane. Single storey rear/side extension, re-cladding of property, alterations and additions to fenestration, replacement porch, addition of solar panels and external landscaping works.

BO/22/01909/FUL: Wildfowlers, Shore Road. Demolition of existing dwelling, erection of replacement dwelling and associated landscaping.

BO/22/02015/TPA: Broadbridge Mill, Old Bridge Road. Reduce height by 4m and laterals by 3m (back to previous pruning points) on 1 no. Monterey Cypress tree (T12) subject to BO/89/00064/TPO.

SDNP/22/03675/HOUS: Saddlers, Church Lane. Erection of single-storey extension to the south-east corner of Saddlers and minor internal alterations. Replacement of fenestration to modern parts of the house. Demolition of the existing garage and erection of a new oak framed garage.

SDNP/22/03676/LIS: Saddlers, Church Lane. Erection of single-storey extension to the south-east corner of Saddlers and minor internal alterations. Replacement of fenestration to modern parts of the house. Demolition of the existing garage and erection of a new oak framed garage.

CC/22/01417/DOM: 5 March Square. Proposed rear conservatory.

CC/22/01807/FUL: Graylingwell Hospital, College Lane. Alteration to plot 880 approved under planning permission ref CC/21/02838/REM including relocation of dwelling and garage.

CC/22/01873/DOM: 124 Bognor Road. Proposed pitched roof and extension to existing outbuilding.

CC/22/01945/ADV: Former Graylingwell Hospital, College Lane. Erection of 2 no. pole mounted welcome signs.

CC/22/02025/TPA: 15 Broyle Close. Crown reduce back to previous pruning points/knuckles on 1 no. Norway Maple tree (T1) subject to CC/10/00171/TPO.

CC/22/02050/DOM: Pallant Court, 10 West Pallant. Internal alterations at ground floor including new floor finishes, 1st floor formation of new master bedroom suite and at 2nd floor formation of 2 bedroom suites.

CC/22/02051/LBC: Pallant Court, 10 West Pallant. Internal alterations at ground floor including new floor finishes, 1st floor formation of new master bedroom suite and at 2nd floor formation of 2 bedroom suites.

CC/22/02052/ADV: 71-72 East Street. 2 no. non-illuminated fascia signs.

CH/22/01912/DOM: The Bungalow, Main Road, Chidham. Proposed single storey side extension and alterations.

CH/22/01929/FUL: Woodlands, Drift Lane, Chidham. Replacement dwelling and associated landscaping. (Variation of conditons 2 and 4 of permission 19/02643/FUL - amended design and materials).

CH/22/02032/EIA: Land At Coxes Farm, Broad Road, Hambrook. EIA Screening Opinion for the proposed development comprising approximately 185 dwellings with associated open space, roads/cycleways and pedestrian footpaths, farm shop and work hub commercial centre with car parking, landscaping, and wildlife corridor on land at Coxes Farm Broad Road Hambrook.

D/22/01644/FUL: Land Adjacent To Rosemead, 24 Queens Avenue. Change of use from open scrubland area to fenced parking/bin and garden storage area.

D/22/01829/DOM: 10 Graydon Avenue. Proposed two-storey side and rear extensions with associated alterations.

SDNP/22/02982/FUL: Rickyard Stables, A272 Easebourne St to Heath End Lane. Change of use and conversion of former stables to office/reception area and cycle storage/electric charging for use in connection with tourism development approved under SDNP/21/06365/CND). Toilets to remain.

SDNP/22/03488/HOUS: North Mill, North Street, Midhurst. Change use and extension of outbuilding to home office and associated alterations. Replacement and relocation of gates and associated walls.

SDNP/22/03489/LIS: North Mill, North Street, Midhurst. Change use and extension of outbuilding to home office and associated alterations. Replacement and relocation of gates and associated walls.

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EWB/22/02035/FUL: Land South Of Tranjoeen, 1 The Paddock, Bracklesham Lane, Bracklesham. Proposed vehicle crossover (means of access to a highway Class B).

SDNP/22/03257/HOUS: The White House, The Green. Erection of a timber summer house.

SDNP/22/03433/HOUS: Meadow Cottage, Hawksfold Lane East. Proposed two storey side extension replacing existing single storey ground floor side extension and outbuildings.

SDNP/22/03182/HOUS: 7 Coates Castle, Coates Lane. Proposal to place solar panels on roof and 1 no. electric vehicle charging point on front elevation wall.

SDNP/22/03743/BBPN: St Marys Cottage, St Marys Drive. Notification under the Electronic Communications Code Regulation 5 for the installation of 1 no 9m pole.

HN/22/02011/DOM: Moat Lodge, Church Lane. Installation of a solar photovoltaic panel array on the south-west roof slope.

HN/22/02012/LBC: Moat Lodge, Church Lane. Installation of a solar photovoltaic panel array on the south-west roof slope.

SDNP/22/03495/HOUS: The Old Coach House, Hawkhurst Court. Erection of close board fencing above existing 11m long low stone wall to the side of house. Replacement of existing side metal gate with wood gate.

LX/22/02036/ELD: Four Houses, Guildford Road. Existing lawful development use of building as a dwellinghouse.

SDNP/22/03704/BBPN: Land at Hammer Hill to Linchmere Road. Regulation 5 notice for BT installed 2 no. fixed line broadband electronic communications apparatus.

SDNP/22/03242/HOUS: Millbrook, Milland Lane. Cladding to external facade, 1 no. window east elevation, 1 no. door to side elevation. replacement of UPVC with Oak frame to porch.

SDNP/22/03477/HOUS: 12 South Grove. Replacement rear conservatory with single storey extension. Replacement front porch.

PS/22/01645/COU: Little Springfield Farm, Plaistow Road, Ifold. Change use of paddock to garden land associated with Little Springfield Farm.

SY/22/01667/PLD: Clare Cottage, 23 Seal Road. Single storey rear extension to replace existing conservatory. Enlarge existing rear dormer.

SY/22/01731/DOM: 7 Bonnar Road. Change of loft space to habitable accommodation.

SY/22/01846/DOM: 24 Beach Road. Front single storey extension with a balcony, rear double storey extension.

SY/22/01911/PLD: Nelcroft, 33 St Itha Road. Replace existing conservatory roof with permanent structure.

SY/22/02090/DOM: 36 Fontwell Road. New garage to front of property.

SI/22/01830/DOM: Little Bower, Rotten Row. Proposed double garage - alternative design and siting to that approved under SI/20/03007/DOM (Variation of condition 4 of permission 22/00877/DOM - changes to materials).

SI/22/01930/ELD: Landseer House, 13 Cow Lane. Use of outbuilding as a separate dwellinghouse along with associated residential curtilage.

SDNP/22/03311/HOUS: Oakdene, Foxhall, Charlton. Proposed conservatory, conversion of garage to study.

SB/22/02061/EIA: Land North Of Penny Lane, Hermitage. Request for an EIA Screening Opinion in relation to proposed residential development of 85 no. dwelling units and associated hard and soft landscape scheme.

TG/22/01897/DOM: 2 Church Farm House, Church Lane. Proposed conversion of existing outbuilding to ancillary accommodation (annex) to main dwelling.

TG/22/01898/LBC: 2 Church Farm House, Church Lane. Proposed conversion of existing outbuilding to ancillary accommodation (annex) to main dwelling.

SDNP/22/03549/HOUS: Nuthatch, Upperton Road. Demolition of the existing single-storey rear extension and detached prefabricated garage. Replacement with a part two-storey and part single-storey rear extensions together with associated internal and external alterations including the reinstatement of a ground floor window on front elevation.

SDNP/22/03528/HOUS: 10 Mill Lane, Dumpford, Trotton. Proposed two storey side extension to replace single storey lean to. Alterations to existing site access for new level parking.

WI/22/01928/FUL: Pucks Cottage, Itchenor Road. Erection of a replacement dwelling and garage following the demolition of existing dwelling and garage.

WE/22/01887/COU: Manor House, Woodmancote Lane, Woodmancote. Change of use of an existing former stable to a two storey two bedroom dwelling (Variation of condition 4 from planning permission WE/04/00453/COU - To include holiday use).

WE/22/02026/DOM: Lazy Meadow, North Street. Demolition of existing garage construction of single storey side extension with conversion of roof to habitable space with dormers. Constriction of part 2 storey rear and front extension and part replacement of front boundary wall. Replacement of fascia's soffits windows and doors with all external walls rendered and new roof tiles.

WH/22/01952/DOM: Kintail Lodge, Claypit Lane. Retrospective annex to main building.

WH/22/01995/FUL: Rolls Royce Motor Cars, The Drive. Replacement of 2 no. existing car parking spaces (with electric vehicle charging) with 6 no. electric vehicle charging points and visitor car parking spaces, the erection of a canopy and associated works including landscaping.

WR/22/01851/DOM: Fernlea, Kirdford Road. Double storey rear extension to replace conservatory and partial garage conversion.

WR/22/02037/PNO: Wharf Farm, Newpound. Proposed haylage storage.

SDNP/22/03482/HOUS: Tyelands, Severals Road, Bepton. Installation of ground mounted solar panels in 2 groups of 10 panels (total of 20).

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Welcome to Eleven Arches, also known as the Grace Mansion. The historic trophy property was built in 1937, by notable architect Josias Joesler, as a winter residence for Louise N. Grace, the heiress of eastern shipping magnate W.R.Grace. The privately walled and gated enclave is situated on 4.38 acres, within the prestigious gated community of The Estates at Eleven Arches, a prime location in the heart of the Catalina Foothills. Eleven Arches offers endless possibilities and generous spaces for offices, corporate events, gym, art studio, wine cellar, multi-generational living and guest/staff quarters. The distinctive estate is a world unto itself, offering 15,502 square feet of living spaces, resort-like grounds, complete privacy, unrivaled city views, and majestic mountain views. Exceptionally restored to capture its history, combined with today's amenities, the estate exudes a warm and intimate feeling for everyday living, yet provides the perfect venue for grand scale entertaining. The stately south yard offers panoramic city views, an oversized pool, multiple seating areas, covered patios, a picturesque breezeway, and ample space to host over 250 guests. The area between the property wall and property line on this oversized lot has room to build, measuring an incredible 2.389 acres and fits over 70 parked cars. After a five year restoration by the current owners, the property was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The magnificent Tucson Landmark exemplifies Joesler's iconic late 19th and 20th Century Revival architectural style, and is famous for its residents, guests, events, architecture and location. The privately gated drive reveals the first sight of prominent elegance. A true masterpiece, built primarily of mud adobe, with 24" exterior walls. The light-filled interior spaces are graciously scaled, with a terrace access off almost every room. The main residence features interior 14" walls with integrally colored platinum grade Gypsum plaster. The formal dining room features exquisite waxed lime-marbled dust Italian plaster. The residence is an art collectors dream lined with a gallery quality hanging system and lighting. Notable property features include a 600 ft. deep steel cased private water well in addition to city water, 9,948 sqft. main residence, 5,553 sqft. detached guest quarters and a total of 10 bedrooms and 12 bathrooms. Qualified for reduced property taxes through listing on the National Register of Historic Places. At a glance in the main residence, the main level features a grand entry hall, two-story foyer, formal living room, formal dining room, chef's kitchen with a dining area, butlers pantry, laundry room, and two guest powder rooms. The master bedroom wing, also on the main level, includes a media room with a full bath, office, his/hers bathrooms and closets, and a private serene terrace. The second level has two generously scaled guest bedrooms with en-suite baths, each with a private balcony displaying infinite city vistas. The dramatic staircase in the grand entry hall leads to the guest bedrooms, which can also be accessed by an elevator. Additional amenities include: HVAC zoned, Sonos sound system in the main residence, commercial grade water softener. Oversized detached 4 car garage with workshop, detached 1 car garage for guest quarters. Chef's kitchen features appliances by Viking, Fisher & Paykel, Miele and Sub-Zero. A truly inspiring lifestyle awaits, come and see for yourself. See video and documents tab for additional information, including floorplans, and video. Historical documents, restoration and notable features list available. Recent survey available upon request.

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"One day, after getting overwhelmed by the negativity of Hostile Architecture, I started a subreddit to collect all of the good things," Honor says. "I posted a picture of a picnic table designed with an overhang on one side, made to accommodate a person in a wheelchair. The table encourages everyone to sit together. It doesn't stop behaviors, it starts them."

"Slowly people found the sub from my posts as a mod on Hostile Architecture. I think that other people needed a chaser after seeing some of the awful, mean design in the world. I separated the posts into categories of thought and catalogued things that are accessible, social, promote sharing and coexisting with nature, provide shelter, food/water, rest, information, sanitation, or are about saving lives. I also included architecture for Pure Fun."

"It's been amazing seeing it grow and seeing others bring in Friendly Architecture from their world into the sub," Honor told Bored Panda. "It can be hard to find Friendly Architecture, but when I do, I feel so good about the world."

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Nestled like a red question mark in the hills of rural Japan, the Kamikatsu Zero Waste Centre is a recycling facility like no other. A chunky frame of unprocessed cedar logs from the nearby forest supports a long snaking canopy, sheltering walls made of a patchwork quilt of 700 old windows and doors, reclaimed from buildings in the village. Inside, rows of shiitake mushroom crates donated by a local farm serve as shelving units, while the floors are covered with cast terrazzo made from broken pottery, waste floor tiles and bits of recycled glass, forming a polished nougat of trash.

It is a fitting form for what is something of a temple to recycling. In 2003, Kamikatsu became the first place in Japan to pass a zero-waste declaration, after the municipality was forced to close its polluting waste incinerator. Since then, the remote village (with a population of 1,500, one hours drive from the nearest city) has become an unlikely leader in the battle against landfill and incineration. Residents now sort their rubbish into 45 different categories separating white paper from newspapers, aluminium coated paper from cardboard tubes and bottles from their caps leading to a recycling rate of 80%, compared with Japans national average of 20%. Villagers typically visit the centre once or twice a week, which has been designed with public spaces and meeting rooms, making it a social hub for the dispersed town. It even has its own recycling-themed boutique hotel attached, called WHY which might well be your first response when someone suggests staying next to a trash depot.

The question mark shape can be perceived only from high up in the sky, says the buildings architect, Hiroshi Nakamura. But we instil our hope that this town questions our lifestyles anew on a global scale and that out-of-town visitors will start to question aspects of their lifestyles after returning home.

The project is one of many such poetic places featured in Building for Change, a new book about the architecture of creative reuse. Written by the architect and teacher Ruth Lang, it takes in a global sweep of recent projects that make the most of what is already there, whether breathing life into outmoded structures, creating new buildings from salvaged components or designing with eventual dismantling in mind. The timing couldnt be more urgent. As Lang notes, 80% of the buildings projected to exist in 2050, the year of the UNs net zero carbon emissions target, have already been built. The critical onus on architects and developers, therefore, is to retrofit, reuse and reimagine our existing building stock, making use of the embodied carbon that has already been expended, rather than contributing to escalating emissions with further demolition and new construction.

While the urgency of the issue has been occupying the industry for some time the Architects Journal leading the way with its RetroFirst campaign the topic recently made national headlines when Michael Gove, then communities secretary, ordered a public inquiry into the proposed demolition of the 1929 Marks & Spencer flagship store on Oxford Street. Whereas heritage conservation would once have been the primary reason to retain such a building, the conservation of the planet has now taken centre stage. Campaigners argue the development proposals would release 40,000 tonnes of CO2 into the atmosphere, whereas a low-carbon deep retrofit is eminently possible instead. They point to examples such as the former Debenhams in Manchester, a 1930s building which is being refurbished and extended. To put the scale of the emissions in context, Westminster city council is currently spending 13m to retrofit all of its buildings, to save 1,700 tonnes of carbon every year; the M&S demolition proposal alone would effectively undo 23 years of the councils carbon savings.

The retailers bosses might do well to thumb through Langs book for some inspiration, and see how creative reuse is not just crucial for the planet, but can be even more alluring than the promise of a shiny new-build. Along with office and retail refurbs, the projects include a rusting steel factory in Shanghai reborn as a striking exhibition centre, a water tower in Norfolk that was cleverly converted into a panoramic house in the clouds, and a childrens community centre in a converted warehouse, complete with a vertiginous new landscape that ripples its way around the building.

The strategies on show range from the ad-hoc to the forensically planned. One German architect, Arno Brandlhuber, invited friends to bash out holes in the concrete walls of a former underwear factory near Potsdam using a sledgehammer, to create the windows of his gritty new weekend home wherever they saw fit. In Barcelona, meanwhile, architects Flores & Prats spent three months meticulously cataloguing every single door frame, mosaic tile and wall moulding of a 1920s workers co-operative, creating an inventory of components to reuse in their conversion of the building into a theatre. The duo compare their process to altering secondhand clothes: You have to unstitch and so recognise the pattern used before, cut on one side to add on another, they write. We may have to sew some pockets, and so on, until the garment responds and identifies with the new user. It is an exercise, they add, that requires confidence and time until you get to feel it as your own.

The resulting Sala Beckett is a spellbinding place, encrusted with the traces of its previous lives, creating a series of richly layered spaces that would have been impossible to make from scratch. It brims with one of retrofits chief free gifts, which so many new buildings struggle to conjure: character. Over the years, the co-op had hosted shops, a cafe, cinema and gym, and echoes of these functions are kept on in a kind of bricolage of fragments.

The 44 doors and 35 windows retrieved from the project were carefully restored, repainted and relocated to different rooms, arranged in enlarged openings and in new combinations, as if choreographed in a dance around the new building, Lang writes. The architects term their approach situational architecture, allowing the space to surprise and guide its development, suggesting alternative uses and evolving into its new form. While other architects had proposed to demolish the building and start afresh, Flores & Prats saw the social value in retaining the structure, beyond the environmental benefits alone. You inherit it, Ricard Flores said in an interview, you use it because you like what you see and you think there is a treasure there. And not only as regards the material qualities. The social inheritance was as important as the physical inheritance.

Similar principles guide the approach of French couple Lacaton & Vassal, the Pritzker prize-winning architects who work under the rallying cry: Never demolish, never remove or replace, always add, transform, and reuse! Their rehabilitation of postwar housing blocks in Paris and Bordeaux has set a new bar for low-energy retrofit, improving the thermal performance of the buildings while, crucially, allowing the existing residents to live there while the works are carried out.

From social housing to art centres, the pair always begin with a fastidious assessment of the existing fabric, asking how it could be improved with the bare minimum of resources. In the early 00s, when the French state was allocating 167,000 for the demolition and rebuilding of each apartment, they argued that it was possible to redesign, expand and upgrade three flats of the same size for that amount. They proved it, working with Frdric Druot to transform the 1960s Tour Bois-le-Prtre, by removing the old precast concrete cladding and wrapping the flats in a three-metre-deep layer of winter gardens, providing additional amenity space and a thermal buffer to the living spaces. As Anne Lacaton puts it: Demolishing is a decision of easiness and short-term. It is a waste of many things a waste of energy, a waste of material and a waste of history. Moreover, it has a very negative social impact. For us, it is an act of violence.

It is a light-touch philosophy that can also be found in the work of London studio DK-CM, particularly in their masterplan for Harrow Arts Centre, set in a Victorian school campus, which features in the book. Rather than decant the existing uses into temporary structures at vast expense, to enable the creation of new arts facilities, the architects carefully reorchestrated the site and developed a phased approach over six years. Architectural decisions were made according to how they would reduce overheads and minimise the environmental impact of construction and future maintenance, with a programme of strategic repairs and lightweight insertions a design process with more in common with surgery than construction, says Lang.

The momentum for retention and reuse is catching on. No longer perceived as the last resort of economic necessity or a fringe eco-pursuit, refurbishment has become the desirable choice for progressive clients. This month, the London School of Economics unveiled the winner of its latest international competition, for a 120m last set piece addition to its campus. After a recent run of building gargantuan brick, glass, steel and concrete behemoths, designed by a roster of star architects, the LSE appointed David Chipperfield precisely because he proposed to keep as much of the sites existing 1902 building as possible. Retention should be seen not as an obligation, said Chipperfield, but as a commitment to a more resourceful and responsible approach to our future, based on intelligent use of existing material and cultural capital. Will M&S take note, and reconsider its carbon-hungry plans?

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Aug. 18Warren C. Heylman was sure of his path in life, even as a kid growing up near Cliff Park's peak on the South Hill.

"I just wanted to draw," Heylman told The Spokesman-Review in 2016. "Ever since I was a little boy, that's all I wanted to do."

From that pencil came the designs for iconic structures of Spokane's skyline. The Parkade parking structure, the Riverfalls Tower on downtown's west end and the Burlington Northern rail bridge over Hangman Creek all owe their design to Heylman.

Heylman, a bow tie-wearing architect who went from designing Frank Lloyd Wright-inspired homes on the South Hill to massive public projects and affordable housing during the boom years of Spokane architecture, died Aug. 10. He was 98.

His career in Spokane coincided with a group of new, young architects that arrived in the post-World War II years and reshaped the look of the city, said Aaron Bragg, a copywriter who helped curate a Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture exhibit on the city's architecture during that time.

"There's a handful of architects who you can say truly shaped the city's landscape," Bragg said. "You can't imagine it without Warren Heylman's stamp on it."

Born Sept. 23, 1923, Heylman was the son of Jane and Harry Heylman. His father owned a Packard dealership he'd started after returning from World War I.

Warren Heylman went on to serve in World War II, and again in the Korean War, in the U.S. Navy after graduating from Lewis and Clark High School, where he ran track. That love of running lasted all his life and prompted him to compete in 40 consecutive Bloomsday races, said his daughter, Ann Martin.

"He ran the very first, up until he was 90 years old," Martin said. "He was very proud of that."

Always drawing plans, Heylman incorporated the features of the ships he was stationed on in the Navy into the design for the home he built for himself and his family in western Spokane, with windows intended to mimic portholes.

He opened his own one-man firm in 1952, placing ads in the newspaper that got him work designing homes. His early work showed the influence of Wright, the prolific American architect who pioneered open floor plans and efficient building methods, said Glenn Davis, a local architect and architectural historian who worked with Heylman briefly in the early 1990s.

"He was a very cost-conscious architect," Davis said. "Architects like Warren, and some of his fellow architects from that period, I think they were dealing with how to come up with aesthetics that dealt with lower construction costs, and a different attitude toward labor."

Some of those early homes still stand; others have been swept away by development and progress. One of Davis' favorites of Heylman's early homes was one built for the architect's childhood friend, John G.F. Hieber, in 1953. It was bought by a developer in 2012 who later demolished the house after trying to renovate it.

Among Heylman's first public projects were the Liberty Lake Golf Course clubhouse built in 1959, with its signature sloping roof. That design feature would also find its way into the plans for the Spokane International Airport, a collaboration with fellow architect William H. Trogdon.

"I think the plan does something important," Heylman told the Spokane Daily Chronicle in May 1965. "It brings passengers closer to the airplanes."

Later, architect Bob Wills who worked for Heylman for 19 years during a period that included work for Expo '74 would be tasked with updating that airport, expanding ticketing and baggage areas as travelers continued to flock to the Inland Northwest.

"We simply replicated the original design," Wills said of those expansions. "You couldn't do any better than that."

The airport opened in 1965. Within two years, Heylman saw perhaps his most iconic structure, the downtown Parkade parking garage, built to accommodate the legion of shoppers and downtown commuters Spokane boosters hoped to attract.

Heylman said he visited parking structures in 20 cities before designing the Parkade, with its signature sign proclaiming open stalls 10 stories above Spokane's downtown. His partner in the project was Hieber, who was doing his own work renovating the downtown Bennett Block.

"It also will be a beacon for motorists," Heylman said of the central tower in the Parkade, upon its opening in March 1967, "and serve as a landmark for drivers seeking parking space."

Heylman later opened an office on the ground floor of the Parkade, where he practiced architecture along with his daughter, Martin, for 35 years. The family also ran together downtown, in Bloomsdays and during work days.

Dennis Hession, the former mayor of Spokane, met Heylman through Martin.

"He was very much a visible figure," Hession said. "You would run into him, downtown. He was always around."

During the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Heylman continued to receive recognition for his work from the American Institute of Architects, and was elected president of the Spokane chapter of the group in 1982.

Hession said Heylman was a man driven by principles, and that could be seen in his design work especially the lukewarm reception to the offices of what was then the Spokane County Health District, today the Spokane Regional Health District.

Heylman, in 2016, defended the work as "one of the best things I've done." But others disagreed.

Wills was part of the original drafting team that put together plans for the four-story, $5 million (in 1976 dollars) building. He built a scale model of the building in an effort, he said, to convince Heylman to reconsider the design. They even drove to Browne's Addition and put the model on the hood of a car, to simulate what the finished product would look like on the north bank of the Spokane River, Wills said.

"It totally backfired," Wills said.

Heylman stuck to his design, and in the ensuing years several regional architects, both identified and anonymous, publicly criticized the building's design.

"People have a reaction to his work, even if they don't know who did it," Bragg said. "You can't not have a reaction to a Heylman design."

"It's part of his strong personality, but it's also about conviction, the confidence in yourself as a designer," Hession said.

That confidence led Heylman to offer his advice, even when unsolicited. In the early 1970s, he wrote to Burlington Northern Railroad to criticize its plans for a rail bridge over Hangman Creek to replace their downtown line displaced by the world's fair. Heylman's simpler design was eventually built.

Heylman was also responsible for more than 1,000 units of affordable housing for the elderly throughout the region. His work includes the O'Malley Apartments near Gonzaga University.

He spent the final years of his life at Riverfalls, the modern apartment tower he designed overlooking Peaceful Valley that opened in 1973. He lived there with his wife, Kathryn, whom he called "Zeek." Kathryn Heylman died in March.

"My dad's world was centered on my mom," Martin said, adding that Kathryn Heylman sewed all his bow ties.

In November, Riverfalls became the first of Heylman's properties in Spokane to be listed on the Spokane Register of Historic Places. Buildings are not generally considered for inclusion on the list until they're at least 50 years old, said Megan Duvall, historic preservation officer for the city and county.

"I anticipate that we will see other Heylman buildings considered for the Register in the future," Duvall wrote in an email.

Martin's favorite building of her father's also has the distinction of being on the national register of historic places. It's another of his early works, the Colfax branch of the Whitman County Library, finished in 1960.

"It stands today as originally designed in the late '50s and early '60s," Martin said. "Prime example of Warren Heylman."

The family is planning a private graveside service. A celebration of life this fall has not been planned.

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Expectations of future workloads by architects working in the private housing sector hit their lowest point in more than two years last month as soaring inflation and rising mortgage interest costs take their toll on the market.

Architects now expect no growth in orders for private residential projects over the next three months, according to RIBAs latest Future Trends survey.

Respondents returned an index figure of zero for expectations of future workloads in the sector in July, down five points from Junes survey. Any figure above zero signifies that architects expect workloads to increase over the next three months.

The index for private housing, which in recent years has consistently been the best performing sector covered by the survey, had been in positive territory since June 2020 in the middle of the first covid lockdown.

It comes following the weakest growth in house prices for a year, with values rising by just 0.1% in July. Lloyds, the UKs biggest mortgage lender, forecast in June that house prices will grow just 1.8% this year and fall by 1.4% in 2023.

Burgeoning concerns about the future of the UK economy are now weighing down on clients and architects alike, RIBA said.

Architects, even those with a full order book now, are increasingly concerned about workloads in three to six months.

Inflation continues to push up construction costs, reduce the available funds for client investment, and so limit potential new commissions.

Optimism about workloads for public sector projects also slumped again in Julys survey, dropping by five index points to -6, while the outlook for the community sector fell by two points to -8.

The commercial sector, which has typically had low workload expectations in recent years, edged up by three points to +1.

But optimism in London and the South of England, the largest markets for commercial schemes, fell last month with workload expectations across all sectors in the capital slipping by four points to -6 and by 7 points in the South of England to -3.

The picture was brighter in other regions, with the Midlands and East Anglia returning a figure of +10, the North of England +13 and Wales and the West +15.

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A quick search for leading architects in contemporary Ukraine will inevitably bring you to Oleg Drozdov, the principal architect of Drozdov&Partners (formed in 1997) and a co-founder of Kharkiv School of Architecture (KHSA), the first and only private architecture school in Ukraine, in operation since 2017. Both entities were started in Kharkiv, the second biggest city in the country after its capital, Kyiv. In March I talked to the architect about the school and his vision for Ukraine after the war, and this month we discussed the move of his practice and school to Lviv, the intentions behind some of his projects, the current state of Ukrainian architecture, and who are the countrys most influential architects. A portion of our conversation follows a short introduction.

Oleg Drozdov was born in 1966 in Volgodonsk, Russia, less than 250 kilometres east of the Ukrainian border. He studied architecture at Civil Engineering Institute in Kharkiv, and graduated in 1990, following military service in the Russian Far East. Upon his graduation, Drozdov went to Sumy in northeastern Ukraine to practice architecture for two years before leaving for Prague where he attempted to pursue an artistic career as a painter, experimenting with rusted surfaces in a sort of dialogue with nature. He returned to Kharkiv several years later to restart his career as an architect.

In his earlier architectural projects, Drozdov experimented with gesso, playing with two opposing ideas uncompromising contemporaneity and patina of time. These mostly interior design commissions included fashion boutiques and restaurants that were the first in Ukraine to incorporate frameless glazing. These strikingly modern spaces pushed the idea of transparency, openness, and exhibitionism. Eventually, his work transitioned from celebrating new and bright surfaces to what would be more agreeable with the passing of time. He continued to experiment with blurring boundaries between the house and garden, interior and exterior, and finding commonalities between private and public, commercial and public spaces. His current focus is on returning architecture to its essence by underlining buildings' tectonics.

The architect's most well-known projects include VG Horse Club, several commercial centres, and apartment buildings all in Kharkiv as well as houses across Ukraine and Caf Trs in Montreux, Switzerland. Since the Russian invasion, the office collaborated with Lviv studio Replus Bureau and Ponomarenko Bureau from Kharkiv on designing and building 17 shelters within schools and sports facilities, serving at least 15,000 people. The architect's theatre Teatr na Podoli in Kyiv turned Drozdov into a public persona in the country due to a huge amount of discussions about this building's appropriateness in the city's historical heart. It became a certain Rubicon of Ukrainian architecture, attracting intense debates. This engagement of Ukrainian citizens in scrutinising the quality of the built environment will surely be critical in the upcoming massive rebuilding process.

Vladimir Belogolovsky: Before the war, you were based in Kharkiv, the city that you had to flee. Now that you are in Lviv, could you talk about your current situation?

Oleg Drozdov: Both our office and school, moved to Lviv, 1,000 kilometres to the west, within the first week after the war started. We set up the new office and returned to work two weeks later. The school was also operational within weeks. I knew that there were going to be lots of refugees in this part of the country. So, we contacted the mayor's office here about setting up shelters. Parallel to that, we organised fundraising campaigns. Our architects, students, and their parents all volunteered on these projects.

VB: Where are you operating from in Lviv, both your office and the school?

OD: The school initially moved to a rent-free space at the Ukrainian Catholic University here. And now we found a more permanent home at the Lviv Academy of Arts. We are organising fundraisings to get money for renovating these spaces. We will start our much-anticipated school year in September. Already one month after the war started, at least half of our students and professors, moved to Lviv and we started having our classes half online and half in-person. And our office was initially hosted by a local firm, AVR Development. Recently we moved to our own new space, which was rented to us at half market price.

VB: What projects are you currently working on at the office and how many of you are now in Lviv?

OD: We now have 15 people here. Before the war, there were 27 of us. Three people left the country. A few others had to stay with their families in Kharkiv and other cities. And several people took a break due to the incredibly high level of emotional stress these days. And some architects are working remotely.

Among the first projects that we returned to work on were our commissions in Switzerland a city villa and an apartment building. There are also a couple of projects in Dnipro a museum for the municipality and a city art gallery called Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture or DCCC, a new major cultural hub with public recreation zone and committed to maintaining free access. Then there is an educational campus in the Carpathian Mountains in western Ukraine. And there are co-housing and co-working projects in Lviv and the medical campus in Kharkiv.

In addition to these commercial commissions, we are working on research projects, including reconsidering municipal rental models and collaborating with factories on developing new materials and building types. We explore ideas for using prefabricated concrete panels and other elements in these projects, particularly in those buildings that were damaged during the war. And we explore ideas for utilising materials that come from demolished buildings and how to revive the typical Soviet microraion or micro-district model by increasing density but lowering the number of floors, improving insulation to better reflect climate change, and inserting new public functions.

While we are doing all this work, we put on hold our normal salaries and profits and live and work as a sort of commune. We share apartments, responsibilities, and profits. In short, we dont treat working on our projects as a business.

VB: Anti Patio is your own house. How would you formulate its main concept?

OD: It is a container for living. It is a vessel that contains many incredible plots. It changed my life by letting me live many lives that I could not predict. The first days that I moved there, almost all my time was spent staring at things with my mouth open. I learned so much. I started paying very close attention to every detail in the garden. I should point out that being in every room you are entirely surrounded by the garden and the views that go on for many kilometres. So, the house is like an endless plot or film. It is open to a very fulfilling experience. Many of my friends were provoked by the house as far as their change of behaviour or mood. This place keeps accumulating many important meetings and conversations that took place there. And it is a whole other world for my friends' children.

VB: And what can you say about your Horse Club?

OD: There we wanted to marry the vernacular architecture and the industrial architecture. The projects tight budget led to the idea of a very unusual faade. This was our second project for this client, after designing his villa. Thats how we knew that he owned a forest where he had been collecting fallen trees. So, I asked if we could utilise them as a display of trunks at the buildings front. This forest is very decorative, and the client protects it dearly. The challenge was to use these elements not as dcor but as an integral part of the construction. So, these trunks, in fact, carry the weight of the front wall, although their mere presence evokes the classical order of architecture with certain Post-Modernist connotations. But for me whats important is that it tells a story. This story is about integrating the material and the legacy of the site and making it a part of the new project and how old materials are used in new ways.

The other interesting particularity about this project is that it is all designed around the physiology of the horse because just about every dimension door openings, corridor widths, temperature mode, ventilation, pavement materials, not to mention such details as washing and massage equipment everything is catered to these wonderful animals.

VB: I would like you to elaborate on some of your quotes. The first one: To be, not seem to be.

OD: To that, I would add to live, not to own. This means that whats important is not to own a representation of something but to enjoy life itself. Architecture should help us do that in the most direct and provoking ways, not just package our dreams in fancy materials. I like when architecture is not merely a space for the accumulation of stuff but a tool to learn and enjoy life. I try to separate the essence from mere make-up.

VB: I dont see any boundaries between Artist, architecture, art, and life.

OD: It is true. I see the world both as an artist and an architect. Of course, there are works of architecture that have nothing to do with art. [Laughs.]

VB: We want to change our cities for the better.

OD: This slogan is key for our school. The idea of the school is to form a community with common values and the need for honest and deep discourses, and it is the community that will form our cities. Our cities cannot change simply by adding singular, even good-looking buildings. We all must be agents of change.

VB: Architecture must declare its position to the environment, place, and time. Buildings evoking grandiose funerals of the construction materials are to be avoided.

OD: It is all about creating buildings responsibly. And I think some of the most celebrated buildings with their dubious experimentality from the late 1990s and early 2000s are now incredibly outdated. While some earlier projects, such as those by Marcel Breuer, only become more relevant. I think he has become the most contemporary architect whose buildings are about eternity, proximity to nature, performance, depth, and tectonics qualities that contemporary architecture has lost.

VB: Even though the war is still in a very active phase, architects are already discussing the future of the countrys reconstruction. Some foreign architects rushed to take part in the rebuilding efforts. Any thoughts on that?

OD: As we progress in this process it is important for us, not simply to transition from being a colonial state under Russia to becoming another colonial state of the West. I was one of the initiators of the Ro3kvit urban coalition, which engaged in a collaboration with western specialists in three areas: research, education, and public programs. Any progress must be done collaboratively with local authorities, the population, and, of course, local architects. These relations should be established before any architectural objects will be designed. Already we established our ongoing conversations with local municipalities, community activists, and foreign architects as consultants. The situation presents a chance for Ukraine to accumulate huge global knowledge about the most successful urban projects and integrate it into our context. New projects should not fall from the sky drawn up by an established foreign architect.

VB: Is there such a notion as contemporary Ukrainian architecture?

OD: Our architecture is going through a unique transformation. I am particularly interested in the work that started after 2014, the year the war between Russia and Ukraine first broke out. In the last three years, I have been serving as the Mies van der Rohe Award expert, nominating buildings in Ukraine. 2014 brought a certain agenda that has been forming architecture. Before that, it was entirely driven by consumption and profits. Since 2014, there is a new community awareness and a new social agenda. The beginning of the war signalled the moment when Ukrainian society started to form. After the war architecture will change dramatically but even between 2014 and now it has matured significantly because our society is undergoing an incredibly dynamic transformation. Our architecture will reflect that. There is a kind of hipster urbanism that has become quite central in our cities.

VB: Which buildings built in Ukraine since the turn of the century would you identify as the most important?

OD: I would pick a temporary open-air stage structure called Stage, the main venue of the 2018 cultural festival Construction in Dnipro. It was a collectively designed, ground sourced and ground funded public space. The design was led by architect Tomasz wietlik and urban designer and researcher Kuba Snopek, both from Poland. Another project that I also nominated for the Mies Award is the Center of Andrey Sheptytsky, a cultural centre, and library at the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, designed by Behnisch Architekten and built-in 2017. Its architecture may be excessive and redundantly polyphonic, but its social impact is quite phenomenal. It is extremely active. They constantly organise all kinds of public events.

The third project I would include here is the Memorial of the Heroes of the Heavenly Hundred by Guess Line Architects in Lviv which opened in 2019. It is a very appropriate statement and testimony that established new relationships with the city the way it works with tragedy, memory, public space, and the park. Finally, I would mention the Renovation of the Spassky Bastion and Church in Kyiv by AER Architects completed in 2018. All four projects are more about a new social model than architecture in a narrow sense. This is what Ukrainian architecture was missing before. Only speaking of social qualities, we can really discuss contemporary architecture.

I would also say that Ukrainian architecture is quite regional with Dnipro being a strong leader, while Lviv is a close second. This has a lot to do with the work of Alexander Dolnik [1954-2013], the late Dnipro architect. In his buildings, you can recognise numerous quotations from 20th century architects, but he surely found his own language. He was the leading architect in the country in recent times, leaving a very powerful legacy.

VB: In your opinion who is the leading architect in Ukraine today?

OD: I would rather name some of our most influential architects. And I would stress that their influence comes more not from what they built but rather from what they preach. For that reason, I would name Viktor Zotov, an important figure on the architectural stage; he is the founder of ZOTOV&CO in Kyiv and of an institution called CANactions, a popular educational platform, festival, and publishing company. I would also name Slava Balbek and his Balbek Burau in Kyiv as one of the influential architects with an emphasis on creating contemporary interiors. Then there is an influential architect and journalist Julian Chaplinsky with his popular Chaplinsky Blog. The contemporary architecture here is still being formed. Our architects are ready to work with the people to create not just elegant buildings but buildings that can fulfil the needs of our society in the making. What is great about our architecture is that it is being formed right now. And we also need to rethink our heritage, which is rich, and inspirational, and if we do it critically, a lot can be learned from it.

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Houses We Love: Every day we feature a remarkable space submitted by our community of architects, designers, builders, and homeowners. Project Details:

Location:Lincoln, Massachusetts

Architect:Earl R. Flansburgh

Footprint:2,382 square feet

From the Homeowner:"Earl Flansburgh was a modernist architect in the Boston area for nearly half a century. Throughout his career, he advocated for his profession, serving as the president of Boston Society of Architects in the early 80s.

"Flansburgh + Associates primarily designed institutional buildings, such as the Boston College Library (1997) and the subterranean Cornell University Campus Store (1971). Mr. Flansburgh rarely took on residential clients, however in 1963 he designed a home for his own family which came to be known as the Flansburgh House.

"Built in Lincoln, Massachusetts, within a wooded area, the home features a courtyard surrounded by interior windows which beckon the outdoors into every area of the house. Today, the all-white structure is highlighted by striking yellow bands that run along the vertical side of the windows.

"The homes floor plan was featured in a 1966 issue of Better Homes & Gardens, offering a glimpse into Flansburghs architectural approach: He placed bedrooms and bathrooms on one side of the home, and living areas and the kitchen on the other. Connecting the two is the homes entrance, courtyard, as well as a playroom area for he and his wife Pollys two young children.

"Inside, the home features architectural curiosities that still resonate today: An accordion wall can transform the open entryway into a private space with courtyard views. Another stand-out design element is a curved wall that contains a hidden closet. The most surprising architectural detail, however, is the homes underground tunnel leading to the garage, which was added in 1967.

"Although Flansburgh died in 2009, Polly subsequently secured an easement that ensures the house cannot be demolished or significantly altered."

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