Tips to design multifamily and mixed-use buildings

摘要

CSE: What's the No. 1 trend you see today in the design of multifamily dwellings and mixed-use buildings? Brian Berg: We're seeing a lot of large complexes taking the "mixed" part of mixed-use to the extreme. Retail, restaurants, offices, hotel, residential, grocery stores, and parking are typically being built as part of one large complex. Oftentimes, this is being done on a multilevel podium with tower(s) stacked on top. And sometimes all those uses are in one tower. Parking is either all underground or a combination of underground and wrap-style lots where residential units line up around the aboveground parking. These are all being built in either dense urban areas or less dense burgeoning areas near an abundance of public transportation options.