How Milwaukee architects are adapting amid soaring construction costs

Local firms rethink process, materials and mindset to meet the moment

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After years of rising and unpredictable construction costs, Milwaukee-area architects are confronting a new design reality – one in which creativity is as much about budgets as aesthetics. To bring projects to completion, firms are asking and answering new questions: Do you reduce the scope? Do you defer spaces or set up for phase additions?

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