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Los Angeles Apartments: The Ultimate Renters Guide

Freshome Design & Architecture Magazine

A 2013 study found that Downtown is home to more than 500,000 jobs in fields like government, fashion, retail and tech. Many of the modern, hip hotels like The Standard have beautiful rooftop bars with great sunset views. Today the area is one of the best places to live in Los Angeles and increasing in value quickly.

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What to Get an Architect for Christmas [2018]

Life of an Architect

This follow-up, Studio Joy Works, marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of his firm’s founding and continues the careful documentation of the growing body of his important work, including houses in Vermont and California, his first public project, a train station in Princeton, New Jersey, and residences abroad in Mexico and Turks and Caicos.

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Building with Structural Insulated Panels. or SIPs | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

Many in Vermont & other areas up north have had issues with cupping shingles, etc… so they choose to ventilate – I think many of the problems relate not to the SIPS or shingles per se, but more along the lines of the actual specs / installation of the SIPS chosen & moisture transfer. Adrian Bob fantastic read on SIPs.

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Proof that Architects are not Boring | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

True Story: he does not have an accent and is in fact just a normal guy named Johnathan who lives in Vermont. I have a tattoo of my city on the upper half of my right arm, it’s really, really cool. I count planes. Instead of steps. I’ve been doing this since I was at least six, probably longer. Send to Email Address.

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Why Architects should Blog | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

I studied for three months straight though and I was not a fun guy. 2002 Toyota Tacoma double cab – silver (I AM in Vermont after all) TX Architect in LA In a past life, I remember one owning a Volvo. The first was to get a job, since it was a nasty recession at the time and many of classmates were not getting jobs. ask my wife.

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