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SHOWER DESIGN FOR AGING IN PLACE Customarily, architects, builders, and contractors have designed, specified, and built curbs at shower entrances that require users to pick up their feet and step over and into the shower pan. In some cases, the floor of the shower pan is lower than the floor of the bathroom.
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The 70,000-square-foot (6,500-square-meter) building for the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C., is set on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac River. Surrounded by water on three sides, the peninsula faces south and commands spectacular views up and down the Potomac. The prominent site called for an emblematic building through which the essence of Swedish culture, technology, design sensibility, and governance would be expressed.
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BEIJING BIRD'S NEST - ENGINEERING Part One of this two-part series on Beijing National Stadium looked at the project from an architecture perspective.
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More Building and Construction Number of New Homes Being Built Plunges to 50-Year Low — Independent Digital, 2008.1003Pyongyang Construction Boom Mystifies — Boston Globe, 2008.1003 Scouting Sidewalks and Building Sites — New York Times, 2008.1002 U.K. Government Fails on Pledge for Good Design — BD, 2008.1002 Big Plan a Fails, so What's B as U.S. House Takes a Holiday? — The Australian, 2008.1001 Hempfield Ordered to Follow State Construction Code — Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, 2008.0930 Lenders Withdraw Mortgage Deals — Guardian Unlimited, 2008.0930 House Builders Come in from the Cold — Edmonton Journal, 2008.0930 Construction Profits Expected to Fall — Victoria Times Colonist, 2008.0930 Home Building Slumps Further in August — New Zealand Herald, 2008.0930 Australia's Home-Building Approvals Declined 3.7% — Bloomberg, 2008.0930 Can't Move? Then Improve — Easier Property, 2008.0929 'Hurting' Builders Seek New Tax Credit to Help Market — Bloomberg, 2008.0929 This Old Recyclable House — New York Times, 2008.0928 Scaling Back in Suburbia — New York Times, 2008.0928 A Loan Fit for the Countryside — New York Times, 2008.0928 KB Home Building Smaller Houses to Lift Sagging Sales — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0927 U.K. House Builders Not Inflating Prices — International Herald Tribune, 2008.0926 Peace-of-Mind Punch List — Market Watch, 2008.0925 Dunne Says He Rejected Plan for Taller Tower — Independent, 2008.0925 Sausalito Landscape Architect Builds Living Roof at Academy — San Jose Mercury News, 2008.0925 Shower Design for Aging in Place — ArchitectureWeek, 2008.0924 Construction Workers Sue Building Materials Holding Corp. — Los Angeles Times, 2008.0924 U.K. House Builders to Be Regulated by Code of Conduct — Independent Digital, 2008.0924 Queensland System Better, Says Builder Who Fled North — Canberra Times, 2008.0923 Rescue Plan's Success Hinges on Housing Rebound — Globe and Mail, 2008.0922 The Next Little Thing? — Globe and Mail, 2008.0922 Taming of the Monster Home — Chicago Tribune, 2008.0922 Property Projects Hit the Wall — New Zealand Herald, 2008.0922
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