Wagner Zaun Architecture Inc
Duluth, MN:
How Renzo Piano Builds Cities
The 79-year-old architect discusses how openness in architecture makes for safer, happier places.
Yes, You Can Build Your Way to Affordable Housing
Why It’s So Hard to Build Affordable Housing: It’s Not Affordable
Developers struggle to break even on rental projects for the poorest Americans.
7 Ways Art Galleries Can Help You Build a Successful Career
Over the last several years, there's been a growing sense among some artists that art galleries may be waning - that the business model may not work anymore. The internet and large art shows and festivals have provided artists new opportunities to display and sell their artwork directly to collector
Using an Equity Lens to Build Age-Friendly Cities
For the first time in our country’s history, we are living in some of the most diverse communities.
Company to build complex for city’s older residents
A company that manages more than 350 U.S. properties is developing a new apartment complex for older adults in the community.
Are Mega-Buildings the Future of Our Cities?
Cities of the future will almost certainly need to be both larger and much more sustainable than they currently are. Due to this assumption, the logical solution is huge mega-skyscrapers, which are capable of producing their own power and handling their own waste. One such design was
The pros and cons of design-build
The collaborative design-build delivery method can save time and money, but experts say there are key factors contractors should consider before making the switch.
City seeks landowner incentives to build hundreds of affordable rentals
New buildings would have to keep 80 percent of their apartments affordable for the life of the building.
Can Cities Build Their Way to Housing Equity? A New Book Suggests Not.
Sam Stein's Capital City offers a blistering and persuasive critique of how real estate dominates city planning—to the detriment of most residents.
These flatpack homes can be fully assembled in less than three months
Can Node’s homes make it easy enough to build apartments so that they make a dent in the housing crisis?
Why Cities Should Help Artistic Entrepreneurs
A new report urges cities get more proactive when it comes to entrepreneurs in the arts.
Build for the Future
Contractors are hearing a lot about ways to use new technological applications, from building information modeling (BIM) to employing tablets and iPads in the field. One misconception is that only multibillion-dollar corporations are prepared to take advantage of these processes and tools. In fact, smaller construction firms can be more nimble to take advantage of these opportunities faster if they are prepared.
How slums can inspire the micro-cities of the future
What if there were a new type of city that is a better fit for this century?
Build a new world with Habitat for Humanity
1.6 billion people around the world live in substandard housing. Join with Habitat for Humanity as we build a new world.
How to build your career as an IT Architect
The career path of IT Architects is a choose-your-own-adventure. If you want to become a lawyer, you go to law school and eventually take the bar exam. If you want to become an Enterprise Architect, the career entryways aren't always as well-lit.
Cohousing Builds Active Communities
Educate clients on these small-scale developments with common areas that facilitate social interactions between neighbors.
Women Build Trolley Trip
Habitat for Humanity’s Women Build challenges women to address the problem of substandard housing and to be part of the solution. Women are empowered to take th
Construction students help build community
Students getting an education in construction are learning much more than just the trade itself.
‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality
According to two scholars, the idea that an insufficient supply of housing is a main cause of cities' economic problems is based on flawed premises.
