Buildings
Service charges are a design outcome nobody prices at the start
The lifts, plant, landscaping and cladding access chosen in year one become a bill residents pay every year afterwards.
Housing, towers, facades and what a building does to the block around it.
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The lifts, plant, landscaping and cladding access chosen in year one become a bill residents pay every year afterwards.
Buildings
How many staircases a block needs is a safety rule that quietly decides flat layouts, daylight and what small sites can hold.
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Structured parking looks like spare capacity for a future without cars. Its slopes, headroom and drainage disagree.
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Buildings do not weather evenly. Where the water runs and who can reach the surface decide what a street sees in ten years.
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Building components off site promises speed and consistency. It also concentrates the risk in a place the developer does not…
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Every building has one and almost none of them do anything. The obstacles are structural, legal and about access rather than about…
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Putting homes above shops is sound urbanism and a difficult building. Almost every problem occurs where one use meets another.
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The cost of working on an existing building is dominated by what nobody could see until the work started.
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Student blocks and co-living schemes solve a real housing problem with a floorplan that suits almost nobody else.