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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 Good Homes Come in Small Packages — Times Colonist, 2006.1226Where the Living Is Almost Easy — Los Angeles Downtown News, 2006.1225 A Modular Mansion? — Aspen Times, 2006.1224 Affordable Housing without Subsidies — New York Times, 2006.1224 Repair Costs of Seismic Test House Could Have Been Prohibitive — PhysOrg, 2006.1222 Bad Times for Good Building — The Slatin Report, 2006.1221 Hickory Hardware's Non-Slamming Gate Closer — Hickory Hardware press release, 2006.1220 Unity Homes Project: Rebuilding the Gulf — Healthy Building News, 2006.1220 Architectural Fidelity Keeps a Circle Unbroken — San Francisco Chronicle, 2006.1220 ICC Institutes Teach Residential Inspections, Permitting — International Code Council press release, 2006.1219 Producer Prices, Housing Starts Climb — Bloomberg, 2006.1219 Nov. Home Construction Rebounds after Big Drop — Washington Post, 2006.1219 Black Market Economy Taxing All Canadians — Halifax Chronicle Herald, 2006.1218 A Robot in Every Home — Scientific American, 2006.1218 New Move to Promote Sales of Small Houses — China Daily, 2006.1218 UK Public Says 'Build New Homes in Urban Centres' — 24Dash, 2006.1218 Weyerhaeuser to Close Plants, Cut Jobs — Houston Chronicle, 2006.1218 The Expanding Latino Housing Market Must Be Addressed — Opinion at Ocala, 2006.1217 In Houston, Art Is Where the Home Is — New York Times, 2006.1217 It's 'Bath' Time in Home Building — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2006.1216 Penn Students Design Sustainable, Low-Cost Housing Project — AIArchitect, 2006.1215 About the House: The General Contrator Problem — Opinion at Berkeley Daily Planet, 2006.1215 The Super-Mall Hits the Philippines — Yahoo News, 2006.1215 Home Depot to Buy Protege Retailer in China — New York Times, 2006.1214 Multifamily Development on Urban Sites — Revitalization Online, 2006.1214 The 100 Houses Architects Designed for Themselves — International News (Pakistan), 2006.1214 The Flat Panel House Now a Reality — SmartHouse, 2006.1212 Storm-Damaged Homes Find New Life — Mississippi Sun Herald, 2006.1211 Filling in Holes in Pelham Village — New York Times, 2006.1210 Washington, DC Is Booming but at a Price — Architect Magazine, 2006.1130
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