States and cities are revising building codes to allow single-stair multifamily buildings, aiming to increase affordable housing while maintaining safety standards. Minnesota’s recent study may guide ...

American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most ...

A question comes up frequently in my years of writing about urban development, and it’s one of my least favorite: “Why do new buildings all look the same?” For one thing, it’s a rather timeless ...

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An architect’s office building rarely becomes a tourist attraction. But just east of Seattle’s downtown, the offices of Schemata Workshop, built in 2016, draw national and international visitors. That ...

Illegal Basement Bedrooms Without Proper Egress The most common code violation inspectors discover during basement ...