What You Can Actually Build on Your Plot: Zoning and Estate Covenants
Footprint, height limits, setbacks, protection corridors and estate covenants: how to know what house will actually stand on a plot before you buy it.
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Articles in this section — from the studio design and construction practice. Total: 22.
10 Red Flags in a Building Plot: When to Walk Away
Power line corridors, flood zones, peat, disputed boundaries: ten red flags that make an architect advise against a plot. What to check before the deposit.
Five Years Instead of Two: The Truth About House Construction Timelines
An honest country house construction timeline for a 1,000+ m² residence: a month-by-month calendar, where schedules break, and what money can actually speed up.
Open Book or Fixed Price: Paying for a 300-Million Mansion
Open book construction contract or fixed price for a 300-million mansion: where the builder's margin hides, what the law allows, what to check before signing.
Interior Procurement: Where 30% of the Budget Vanishes
Furnishing a private mansion: why procurement quietly adds a third to the catalogue price, where the budget leaks, and how to plan lead times that hold.
Architect’s Site Supervision: What You Pay For After the Drawings Are Signed
What architectural site supervision actually covers, how it is priced, and which design decisions die on site first. From an architect with 20 years of practice.
Wine Cellar for 25 Million: Investment or Decoration
wine cellar investment mansion — We analyze three objects with 15–40 million budgets to see when wine cellar really works and when it becomes the most…
When Architect Says “No”: 5 Refusals That Saved the Project
architect project management decisions — 5 real stories when architect said "no" to the client — and was right. Why listening to an expert's refusal saves…
What You Didn’t Ask Your Architect — and Paid for It
questions for architect residential project mistakes — Seven questions that wealthy clients are embarrassed to ask their architect—and that cost them millions. A checklist with red…
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