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ENDANGERED STAR FERRY Since its origins in 1888, the Star Ferry has been an icon of Hong Kong. With tens of thousands of people crossing Victoria Harbour every day, the ferry and its piers play a special role, with both tourists and locals, in the city's history and folklore. Now the icon is threatened by recent controversial developments.
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REJUVENATING BOOMERS An article in the New York Times late in 2005 reported on the escalating demise of brutalist buildings designed and constructed during the post-war years — the hard-edged, unforgiving, sterile, and often-humorless creations of modernism's aging gurus and, especially, their uninspired copyists.
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More Building and Construction Buildings with Minds of Their Own — BDC, 2006.1206Rogers Unveils UK's First 'Flexi-House' — Freelance, 2006.1204 New Home Design Wins Top Award — Salisbury Journal, 2006.1204 Neighbors Stand Up to Super-Sized Homes — Washington Business Journal, 2006.1204 Zimbabwe: Student Designs Low-Cost House — All Africa, 2006.1204 After 20 Years, Rooms with a View — Los Angeles Downtown News, 2006.1204 Rogers Tries It the Ikea Way — The Times (London), 2006.1203 Design Comes First; Collection Will Follow — Miami Herald, 2006.1203 Housing Summit Gets Big Turnout, Ideas for Solutions — Miami Herald, 2006.1203 It Started with a Roof Deck — Boston Globe, 2006.1203 Modular Home to Float Across Ocean for Construction — TransWorldNews, 2006.1203 Hurricane Victims Left without Relief — San Luis Obispo Tribune, 2006.1203 Making Plans for Burlington — Toronto Star, 2006.1202 Modernist Muskoka Abandons the Log Cabin — The Globe and Mail, 2006.1201 Traditional Neighborhood Developments — Revitalization Online, 2006.1130 Couple's Green House Shows Growing Trend — Roanoke Times, 2006.1129 Existing Home Sales Rise in October, Market Stabilizing — National Association of Realtors Press Release, 2006.1128 Fire Protection: Is Your Home 'Ignition Resistant'? — Yahoo Finance, 2006.1128 Existing Home Sales: What's Behind the Numbers? — NPR, 2006.1128 The Suburbs Don't Have to Be Boring — Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 2006.1128 New Homes Must Be Family-Friendly — The Times (London), 2006.1128 What Happens When House Prices Collapse? — The Times (London), 2006.1127 Habitat Enters Gentrifying Areas — Baltimore Sun, 2006.1127 A Building Fee-for-All — Los Angeles Times, 2006.1126 New Orleans Still in Need of Housing — Philadelphia Daily News, 2006.1126 Meeting Housing Needs of Nationals as Fast as Possible — Khaleej Times, 2006.1126 Where Has New Orleans's Housing Money Gone? — Workers World, 2006.1126 European Eclectic — LA Daily News, 2006.1124 Vote Could 'Slow' House Building — BBC News, 2006.1123 Olympic Fiasco in London — World Architecture News, 2006.1122
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