After a developer told city officials that many of Killeen’s architectural and design standards would be met in the construction of hundreds of homes near South Fort Hood Street, they felt comfortable ...

The Killeen City Council will once again be discussing architectural design standards Tuesday ahead of a public hearing the following week. City staff had made numerous changes to the city’s design ...

Senior Associate Tony Perez of Berkeley-based Opticos Design Inc., which was hired to prepare the standards, says creating objective design standards for Santa Barbara was easy because of all the ...

The city is developing Objective Design and Development Standards to bring developers more certainty in the process, while also protecting Santa Barbara’s quality of life and character. “It’s a very ...

Enterprise architecture works best today when it borrows start-up habits — testing fast, learning quickly and scaling what actually delivers value.

Millbrae is prioritizing the preservation of neighborhood character and an expedited review process as it creates new citywide objective design standards. All California cities are required to develop ...

Steven J. Orfield's firm, Orfield Laboratories (OL), has spent 50 years in architectural design, research, and testing, dedicated to the premise that what matters in design is the end user, because ...

The phenomenon known in biology as convergent evolution describes how distant species can develop similar structures when confronted with comparable challenges. Dolphins and ichthyosaurs, for example, ...