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townhomes

Balcony at Mixson

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  • European walkability
  • I'on Group
  • Infill Development
  • Mixson
  • narrow streets
  • townhomes
Some of the first completed buildings at Mixson show it making good on the vision that earned it a Charter Award: narrow streets, intimate spaces and carefully crafted buildings inpired by those in old European cities.
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Johnson Street Townhomes

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  • Portland
  • townhomes
In this project, a new townhouse development is built in a historic warehouse quarter located near downtown Portland, Oregon. These townhouses were designed to complement the scale and texture of the neighborhood’s industrial character, and provide a strong street-level presence creating a sense of community and safety.
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Townhomes on Capitol Hill - Yard Treatments

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  • townhomes
  • Washington D.C.
This project, funded by the federal government’s HOPE VI program, creates a truly integrated neighborhood. By creating a neighborhood with subsidized and market rate housing options, it helps low-income households build their wealth as it complements the architecture of a historic city.
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Townhomes on Capitol Hill - Building Detail

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  • Washington D.C.
This project, funded by the federal government’s HOPE VI program, creates a truly integrated neighborhood. By creating a neighborhood with subsidized and market rate housing options, it helps low-income households build their wealth as it complements the architecture of a historic city.
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Townhomes on Capitol Hill - Building Types

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  • townhomes
  • Washington D.C.
This project, funded by the federal government’s HOPE VI program, creates a truly integrated neighborhood. By creating a neighborhood with subsidized and market rate housing options, it helps low-income households build their wealth as it complements the architecture of a historic city.
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Rowhouses of Lakewood Balmoral

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  • Chicago
  • corridor
  • infill
  • mixed use
  • townhomes
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Palais Royale looking north from center

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  • civic space
  • great squares
  • green
  • Palais Royale
  • Retail Arcades
  • square
  • townhomes
  • Victor Louis
Corner of a portion of the first large scale mixed use speculative development in Paris created by the Duke of Orleans and opened in 1784. Designed by Victor Louis between 1781-84, it originally contained sixty identical residential units above a continuous arcade and shops designed to serve "a quotidian carnival of appetites." Unfortunately, the composition breaks street and access continuity on an east-west basis making the tranquil square difficult to access as well as cut off from the surrounding neighborhoods.
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Egerton Crescent Plan

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  • crescents
  • great squares
  • green
  • squares
  • townhomes
Plan illustrating horizontal dimensions. The average cornice height of the townhomes facing the crescent is approximately 44 feet with the roof elevation at about 49 feet. This creates a middle closure ratio of 4.5:1.
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Egerton Crescent

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  • crescents
  • great squares
  • green
  • squares
  • townhomes
Egerton Crescent was created in the mid 1840s by James Bonnin, Sr. who earlier had built the nearby Pelham Crescent. The Crescent is noteworty for a variety of reaons including masterful architectural differentation and a very pleasant size. Crescents allow the creation of significant frontage for houses without the loss of a large number of buildable lots. The Crescent is 475 feet long when measured face to face of building and 220 feet wide. The middle closure ratio is 1:4.5. Unlike Pelham Crescent, there is no street break at the apex. the overall rhythm is DAAAABAAAABCCBAAAABAAAAD. Great attention was focused on the detailing of the entry porches and their differentation. Balconies are continuous for three or four units and then break for emphasis. Window treatments are carefully modified at each level. My favorite Belgrave square.
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