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Quizzical Pursuit
—The Architecture Puzzler
by Dave Guadagni
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Architecture Puzzler This Week
In 1950 there were 1.95 million housing starts in the United States. Are there more or fewer housing starts projected for the year 2000? New home prices for the year 2000 are projected to be an average of $200,000. What was the average price in 1950?
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How many gallons are in a cubic foot of water? Or liters in a cubic meter? This could be important in designing your next six-lane, 25-yard (23-meter), 5-foot (1.5-meter) deep swimming pool, which would take how much water to fill? The large amount of water required to fill pools explains, in part, why pools are seldom drained. What is another reason pools are rarely emptied?
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Dave Guadagni, AIA, is an architect with Robertson/Sherwood/Architects
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