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A soft story building is a multi-story building in which one or more floors have windows, wide doors, large unobstructed commercial spaces, or other openings in places where a shear wall would normally be required for stability as a matter of earthquake engineering design. [1][2] A typical soft story building is an apartment building of three ...
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Plans include 11 buildings, with more than 900 residential units and four parks. ... Another four-story, 200-unit apartment building would have a large interior courtyard and a basketball gym.
Three-decker (house) A three-decker, triple-decker triplex or stacked triplex, [1] in the United States, is a three-story (triplex) apartment building. These buildings are typically of light-framed, wood construction, where each floor usually consists of a single apartment, and frequently, originally, extended families lived in two, or all ...
In the U.S. most medium-density or middle-sized housing was built between the 1870s and 1940s [10] due to the need to provide denser housing near jobs. Examples include the streetcar suburbs of Boston which included more two-family and triple-decker homes than single-family homes, [10] or areas like Brooklyn, Baltimore, Washington D.C. or Philadelphia [10] which feature an abundance of row-houses.
October 31, 2023 at 2:11 AM. SOMERSWORTH — Persistence seemed to be the word as the proposal to build a four-story, 150-plus unit apartment building at 85 Elm Street received a green light from ...