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Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB When an ‘Under-the-Influence “driver, apparently traveling the wrong-way on First Street, recently crashed into...

Chris d Craiker AIA/NCARB Wines in America have a complex history. The Vikings visited North America and called it Vinland because of the...

Chris d Craiker AIA The Temple to Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon Photo by Sydne deCraiker In today’s world of high-tech wine making, storage...

The Romans carried winemaking throughout the empire and across Southern European nations from Spain to today’s Romania. For the Romans,...

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...