Laurence Qamar
Laurence is a town planner and architect with 35 years experience establishing vibrant, walkable, and high valued mixed-use neighborhood in the Northwest and internationally. His award winning work garners leadership recognition nationally among public planners and private real estate developers. He leads the design and planning of sustainable new communities including his numerous built projects as Principal Town Planner for Seabrook Land Company, including Seabrook WA, Olivia Beach OR, and Bella Beach OR. Additionally Laurence’s town planning work has benefited communities from Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, California, Ontario Canada, Florida to Alaska.
A context-based, form-language for mixed-use, main street buildings
How to design buildings with human scale and proportion (and Modernism’s ongoing inability to get it right).
Shelter-at-home may transform office parks, downtowns, commutes, and cultures
A shift to at-home/remote office work might reduce demand for office space—and simultaneously cut commuting and carbon emissions and promote mixed-use urban places.
Busting the myth that alleys cost more
A careful apples-to-apples analysis shows that the classic urban pattern can actually cost less – but it mostly depends on the shape of the lots.