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From Fire Pits to Hearth & Home
Chris d Craiker AIA Ancient fire pits were mankind’s first appliances. From the earliest cave dwellings, a fire pit was the cooking...
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May 30, 20223 min read
Architects and Space
From Outer Space to Your Space Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB When Architects talk about space, they typically think in terms of structures...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
Can Trapping Gas Emissions Slow Climate Change in Napa?
How Carbon sequestering could help decrease our carbon footprint Recently Napa City has been questioning if a drive-thru restaurant...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
Fire Hardening our Homes and Communities
Do Insurance Companies Have Our, and Their, Best Interest at Heart? This week is the 30th anniversary of the Oakland fire that destroyed...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
9/11, Tall Buildings and Feng Shui
The horror of the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers has overshadowed and dominated our lives for 20 years. Never has there...
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Nov 19, 20213 min read
Elevating Your Home
Living and working in Marin for twenty years, hillside construction with two- and three-story homes was common. Every so often, a client...
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Nov 18, 20213 min read
Capturing Ocean Wave Energy
As a young Southern California surfer, all I knew about ocean waves was Beach Boys, surf boards and Woodies. And yet, the sheer amount...
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Nov 18, 20212 min read
Building Hi-Rises in Wood
Architex Angle Should Our Multi-Story and Commercial Buildings be Built of Wood? When we think of commercial and multi-story...
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Nov 18, 20213 min read
Making Sense of Passive Home Design
One of the newest environmental hot-buttons is Passive Home Design. Actually, nothing new. Architect’s designs today hearken back to...
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Nov 18, 20213 min read
Choosing Environmentally Correct Furniture
In the past, furniture shopping focused usually on colors, styles and price. Today’s consumers are actively looking for environmentally...
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Nov 17, 20213 min read
Can Affordable Housing be Eco-Friendly
After years of planning and design, Napa Creek Village started construction in 2016 for a Zero Energy Project, ZEP community. Five years...
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Nov 17, 20213 min read
Carbon is not our Enemy
EDPs Could Help Measure our Carbon Footprint We’re starting to treat carbon as our enemy. The reality is, we are all made of carbon. Our...
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Nov 16, 20212 min read
Napa City Buildings Should Have a Reopening Strategy
It’s time for the City of Napa to take opening the public facilities seriously. To date, Napa does not have a re-opening strategy or plan....
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Nov 16, 20211 min read
Gray Water Recycling
One overlooked conservation measure is recycling gray water which is now legal. In droughts and even normal daily use, gray water is a...
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Nov 16, 20212 min read
Earth Day Should Remind Us to Conserve Water
The current drought reminds us how fragile our supply is. NCARBThe recent 51st Earth Day should be a big reminder of how essential and...
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Nov 16, 20213 min read
Renovation and Remodeling in 2021
How 2021 Remodeling will Swap New Home Construction With all of last year’s turmoil, few people expected the home remodeling industry to...
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Nov 16, 20213 min read
Napa HHS Sale
Caritas Related LLC is willing to pay $7.5 million to buy Napa County’s 8.6-acre former Health and Human Services Agency campus on Old...
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Nov 15, 20213 min read
Are Hydrogen Fuel Cells In Our Future?
The collapse of the Texas energy grid illuminates how fragile our utility supply systems are. The dependence on gas-fired generation of...
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Nov 15, 20212 min read
Federal Office Design
Today, I am pleased to report that the Biden Administration has revoked the design directive contained in last year’s Executive Order...
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Nov 15, 20213 min read
An Architect’s Movable Architectural Feast
I have been complaining for years that our fixtures and cabinets should be adjustable. They should be able to move up, down and around to...
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