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What’s your dream home style this fall? 🏛️🏡 Do you prefer the character of historic charm or the sleek vibes of new construction? Share your thoughts! #HistoricHomes #NewConstruction #DreamHome #FallMove #RealEstate #UrsulaAndAssociates

9 Uplighting Techniques to Illuminate Your House and Landscape

9 Uplighting Techniques to Illuminate Your House and Landscape

9 Uplighting Techniques to Illuminate Your House and Landscape

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗺𝗮𝗸𝗲𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗮 𝘀𝗸𝘆𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿? 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝘀𝘄𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝘀 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗺𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁 𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲. Tall, high-rise, skyscraper, supertall, megatall crazy tall – you’d be forgiven for feeling confused. We often use these terms interchangeably when describing structures that are notable for their height, but there is in fact a difference between buildings which just happen to be tall and true “skyscrapers”. The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat (CTBUH) in fact defines four categories – Tall Buildings, Skyscrapers, Supertall Skyscrapers and Megatall Skyscrapers. Check out this insightful article and video from The B1M to discover the difference between them. (link in comments)

Thanks to all who attended today's Passive House California (PHCA) and The Passive House Network PH community meeting. I enjoyed sharing what I've learned on yet another #Passivhaus adventure. (Easy climates still have their small challenges...!) For those who missed it, here are my slides, including key assembly details, plus a high level review of the #embodiedcarbon analysis: https://lnkd.in/gZNyv_5g

9 Uplighting Techniques to Illuminate Your House and Landscape

9 Uplighting Techniques to Illuminate Your House and Landscape

A news story that isn’t new news… Since 2002 I’ve been consistently working on the teardowns/mansionization issue, first when the National Trust for Historic Preservation named Teardowns and ‘Older and Historic Neighborhoods’ to its America’s 11 Most Endangered Historic Places. Then and still now, teardowns is fundamentally the practice of demolishing existing homes to replace with new, usually three times the size, though the associated impacts vary and also who is doing the tearing down. Consistently it has been an issue about throwing away resources and livability. Back then we did a publication (Taming the Teardown Trend), a toolkit, and lots of national outreach to help communities tailor land use and preservation policies to respond to this issue. Here’s the latest, a washingtonpost.com piece in a long series of new stories, in this case focused on teardown impacts on Modernist homes, and renewed interest sparked from a teardown of a celebrated 1950 Los Angeles house by a celeb couple… @laconservancy