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Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB The recent Berry Eberling NVR article about locating the Napa Creek bridge stones picked my interest in...

Chris d Craiker AIA In 2022, the Yountville Veterans Home $269million Skilled Nursing Facility, SNF, facilities officially started...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB I’m asked all the time, which is less expensive to build? A one-story or two-story house? Tough question that...

Chris d Craiker AIA Recently JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon floated the idea of a “Marshall Plan” to develop more domestic American gas...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Before the Covid Pandemic, a trickle of homeowners and apartment tenants had delivery trucks combing...

The 2022 Academy Awards was not the first to highlight disabled Academy members. While Troy Kotsur won for best supporting actor award...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Pandemic pundits have predicted that cities are dying from chronic air-borne pathogens and the widespread...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB When accomplishments of women architects come up, Julia Morgan always comes to mind. Historically, this...

Remembering earthquake shacks, San Francisco's original tiny homes The 1906 magnitude-7.8 quake resulted in an immediate need for housing...

“What goes around, comes around, to haunt designers and architects” We’ve all walked down City streets and cringed at buildings that...

In the summer of 2021, ​the 12 story​ Champlain Tower​ condominium​s in Miami ​experienced a major ​catastrophic ​structural failure and...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Lately, the buzz around Napa has been how to slow down our street traffic. The City Council recently reduce the...

Chris d Craiker AIA Ancient fire pits were mankind’s first appliances. From the earliest cave dwellings, a fire pit was the cooking...

From Outer Space to Your Space Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB When Architects talk about space, they typically think in terms of structures...

How Carbon sequestering could help decrease our carbon footprint Recently Napa City has been questioning if a drive-thru restaurant...

Do Insurance Companies Have Our, and Their, Best Interest at Heart? This week is the 30th anniversary of the Oakland fire that destroyed...

The horror of the collapse of the World Trade Center Twin Towers has overshadowed and dominated our lives for 20 years. Never has there...

Living and working in Marin for twenty years, hillside construction with two- and three-story homes was common. Every so often, a client...

As a young Southern California surfer, all I knew about ocean waves was Beach Boys, surf boards and Woodies. And yet, the sheer amount...

Architex Angle Should Our Multi-Story and Commercial Buildings be Built of Wood? When we think of commercial and multi-story...