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Dingbat (building) A dingbat is a type of apartment building that flourished in the Sun Belt region of the United States in the 1950s and 1960s, a vernacular variation of shoebox style "stucco boxes". Dingbats are boxy, two or three-story apartment houses with overhangs sheltering street-front parking. [1] They remain widely in use today as ...
Shotcrete on steel. Floor area. 3,200 ft 2 (297 m 2) Design and construction. Architect (s) William Nicholson. The Flintstone House is a free-form, single-family residence in Hillsborough, California, [1] overlooking and easily seen from the Doran Memorial Bridge carrying Interstate 280 over San Mateo Creek. [2][3][4]
In September 2021, the state of California adopted Senate Bill 9 allowing the development of up to four residential units on single-family lots, following a growing push from local governments such as Berkeley (set to phase out single-family zoning by December 2022), San Jose and other cities across the state. [64]
Definitions. A single detached dwelling contains only one dwelling unit and is completely separated by open space on all sides from any other structure, except its own garage or shed. The definition of this type of house may vary between legal jurisdictions or statistical agencies. The definition, however, generally includes two elements:
The California Building Standards Code is the building code for California, and Title 24 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR). It is maintained by the California Building Standards Commission which is granted the authority to oversee processes related to the California building codes by California Building Standards Law. [1]
Office buildings by size. Low-rise (less than 7 stories) Mid-rise (7–25 stories) High-rise (more than 25 stories), including skyscrapers (over 40 stories) Office buildings by quality[3][4] Trophy or 5-star building: A landmark property designed by a recognized architect. Class A or 4-star building: Rents in the top 30-40% of the local market ...
California bungalow is an alternative name for the American Craftsman style of residential architecture, when it was applied to small-to-medium-sized homes rather than the large "ultimate bungalow" houses of designers like Greene and Greene. California bungalows became popular in suburban neighborhoods across the United States, and to varying ...
BIHOME, Los Angeles, CA (2015) - affordable architectural models for infilling Southern California's single-family residential fabric [17] UCSB San Joaquin Housing, Santa Barbara, CA (2016) - 50,000 sf low rise student apartments and social space. [18] [19]