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Has Napa City Abandoned Slow Down Napa, Increasing Housing Opportunities and Better Architecture?
Let's Hope Not! Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB I don’t often focus on a project going through the processing meat grinder but this one has...
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- Apr 5
- 3 min
Second Homes & Vacation Rentals are a Drag on Napa Housing
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB It’s no surprise that Napa is a prime target for second homes and vacation rentals. According to Brokerage...
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CRAIKER
- Apr 5
- 3 min
The Academy Awards Architecture and Gardens
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB On Sunday, March 12, the 95th annual Academy Awards, better known as the Oscars, will be awarded to artists and...
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- Apr 5
- 3 min
Is There a Chance for New Life in Downtown Napa?
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB I read with much interest two articles in the Napa Valley Register this last weekend about the First Street...
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- Feb 19
- 3 min
Wineries Need to Prepare for Next Big Shake
Chris d Craiker AIA The 2014 West Napa Fault 6.0 magnitude earthquake damage to homes, historic buildings and infrastructure was...
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- Feb 16
- 3 min
Enemy of the State: CEQA
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB California likes to think it is the most environmentally-correct State in the Union. We created the California...
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CRAIKER
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Keeping Our Homes Dry
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB The recent storms have reminded me of an old architects’ axiom: water and moisture are our nemesis. A friend...
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CRAIKER
- Jan 16
- 3 min
Is It Time Napa’s Ugliest Building?
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB When an ‘Under-the-Influence “driver, apparently traveling the wrong-way on First Street, recently crashed into...
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- Aug 9, 2022
- 3 min
Architecture & Wine Come to America and California
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Wines in America have a complex history. The Vikings visited North America and called it Vinland because of the...
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- Jul 20, 2022
- 3 min
Architecture And Wine Through The Ages
Chris d Craiker AIA The Temple to Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon Photo by Sydne deCraiker In today’s world of high-tech wine making, storage...
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CRAIKER
- Jul 18, 2022
- 2 min
Architecture and Wine: Medieval Wines & Buildings
The Romans carried winemaking throughout the empire and across Southern European nations from Spain to today’s Romania. For the Romans,...
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- Jun 14, 2022
- 3 min
Rethinking Napa City Hall Again on it’s 70th Anniversary
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB The recent Berry Eberling NVR article about locating the Napa Creek bridge stones picked my interest in...
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CRAIKER
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
The Veterans Home Expansion: Do Our Veterans Deserve More?
Chris d Craiker AIA In 2022, the Yountville Veterans Home $269million Skilled Nursing Facility, SNF, facilities officially started...
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CRAIKER
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
One-Story vs Two-Story Construction Advantages
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...
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CRAIKER
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Creating a New European “Eco-Marshall Plan”
Chris d Craiker AIA Recently JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon floated the idea of a “Marshall Plan” to develop more domestic American gas...
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CRAIKER
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Drone Ports: Their Time is coming….Maybe
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Before the Covid Pandemic, a trickle of homeowners and apartment tenants had delivery trucks combing...
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CRAIKER
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Hearing Disabilities and how Napa Changed How We Hear
The 2022 Academy Awards was not the first to highlight disabled Academy members. While Troy Kotsur won for best supporting actor award...
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CRAIKER
- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
The Future of Our Cities After the Pandemic
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Pandemic pundits have predicted that cities are dying from chronic air-borne pathogens and the widespread...
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- May 30, 2022
- 3 min
Women in Architecture and Construction
Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB When accomplishments of women architects come up, Julia Morgan always comes to mind. Historically, this...
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- May 30, 2022
- 1 min
Remembering Earthquakes and Garages
Remembering earthquake shacks, San Francisco's original tiny homes The 1906 magnitude-7.8 quake resulted in an immediate need for housing...
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