States and cities are revising building codes to allow single-stair multifamily buildings, aiming to increase affordable housing while maintaining safety standards. Minnesota’s recent study may guide ...

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An architect’s office building rarely becomes a tourist attraction. But just east of Seattle’s downtown, the offices of Schemata Workshop, built in 2016, draw national and international visitors. That ...

​In the U.S., cities such as Seattle and New York now permit new single exit stairway buildings, as does the state of Hawaii.

Nashville's "smart stair" building code became official earlier in July, after it had passed the Metro Nashville Council. The change allows apartment and condo buildings to be built with a single ...

American land-use reformers intent on addressing present-day housing shortages have, for the last decade, focused their efforts on amending zoning codes—the very rules that gradually downzoned most ...