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Posted on August 2, 2015September 19, 2017

Crime and its Connection to Urban Blight

I’m not sure how to approach this topic, because I really don’t have any proof of what I’m about to suggest, but suffice it to say that I believe that if an urban environment, home, or any place embodies a bad vibe, that it will more likely induce criminal acts.

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Posted on May 29, 2015September 19, 2017

Top 5 Reasons I (reluctantly) Hired An Architect…

  • 1) “I was told by the city I have to submit plans to get a work permit before my construction can start. What a hassle.  My cousin drew up a sketch, why can’t we use that?”

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Posted on May 29, 2015September 19, 2017

Top 10 Reasons people do NOT hire an Architect…

1) The Architect will design something that is hoity-toity fancy.

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Posted on March 13, 2015February 27, 2015

FlashBack Friday, a new series…

We’re starting a new series…  once a month we’re going to dig up some old photos of a young Architect, Nick Buccalo, and a few of a young kid who wished to become an architect…

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Posted on March 1, 2015September 19, 2017

Real-time Interactive 3d World

Part of our experiments into digital nature and real time rendering, we explored the idea of creating a virtual world that kids and family could explore together at the same time. These are some of our results.

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Posted on February 26, 2015September 19, 2017

Apartment Rental Layout: Case Study 1-Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn

As a landlord myself I will first show you what I did on my own rental apartment and tell you what kind of tenant still lives there…

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Posted on February 22, 2015February 21, 2015

[architecture] Bamiyan Cultural Centre 1/3

This proposal is about these people and their place.  It is not about injecting an edifice that reflects a foreign culture, but instead echoes the best cultural center that would be appropriate for this place and these people…

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Posted on February 16, 2015September 19, 2017

[web] Creating a robust web presence: Hierarchical Organization

For some 17 years we’ve been building our own websites at SimpleTwig.  One of our first websites had a simple roll-over buttons, a very cool feature in the late 1990’s.

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