• Stacked duplex is cute and cost-effective

    A ‘missing middle’ design creatively maximizes space to provide an affordable workforce option in Beaufort and beyond.
    The Washington Duplex, designed to meet the requirements of a Charter Award-winning form-based code adopted in Beaufort, South Carolina, was built on a challenging lot in the city’s downtown historic district. This design maximizes space to provide affordable, workforce, and flexible housing. The...Read more

  • Multiunit courtyard housing fits the historic context

    A small site project offers density and new housing options for Hyannis, Massachusetts, with design that improves an old streetscape.
    Sea Captains Row is a missing middle rental development on 1.6 acres in the historic district of Hyannis, Massachusetts. Pleasant Street was “once home to early sea captains and a vital link between the train station and Hyannis Harbor,” explains Union Studio, which won a missing middle Design...Read more

  • Lessons from a successful suburban center

    The Village of Providence shows how you can create a strong place out of nowhere in two decades.
    I recently visited the Village of Providence in Huntsville, Alabama, for the Urban Guild Summit . Providence is a Charter Award-winning traditional neighborhood development (TND) designed in the early 2000s by DPZ CoDesign, and it is just a nice place to be. While there for three days, I had no car...Read more

  • Making the most of a small mixed-use site

    A development plan in Edmond, Oklahoma, has 10-foot-wide townhouses and a mix of small commercial and residential buildings to create intimate urban spaces on the edge of downtown.
    Planned for an infill site in Edmond, Oklahoma, a development offers an urban mix of residential, work, and entertainment on less than a half acre. In addition to a four-story commercial building anchoring the corner, the plan includes a range of smaller building types, including three live-work...Read more