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Multifamily variety at Stapleton

Submitted by paytonc on Wed, 12/27/2006 - 8:40pm. Tags for this image:
This block, adjacent to the first neighborhood green at Stapleton, features stacked flats facing the green and rowhouses facing away. When mixing housing types on one block, it is better to have different types facing across an alley than a street. The rowhouses, like many three- and four-story rowhouses today, have an updated version of an English basement. The ground-level first floor houses a garage and multipurpose room, with the living areas upstairs.
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Affordable condos at Stapleton

Submitted by paytonc on Tue, 11/21/2006 - 1:59am. Tags for this image:
"Syracuse Village" offers condominiums from the $100s to income-qualified buyers at Stapleton in Denver. Note the subtle ramps along the side for accessibility. These appear to have eight flats per building.
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Vancouver low-rise

Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 10/12/2006 - 8:38pm. Tags for this image:
Everyone knows about the towers of downtown Vancouver, but the city has also vigorously pursued neighborhood infill. The blocks around a former brewery on Arbutus Avenue in Kitsilano, an upscale neighbourhood south of downtown, have been redeveloped in recent years. This smaller-scale development is east of Arbutus -- both are new and of similar scale, but one takes a (modernised) three-flat as prototype and the other copies large Victorian houses.
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