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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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More Building and Construction Wachovia Reports $23.9 Billion Loss for Third Quarter — New York Times, 2008.1023Banks Mine Data and Woo Troubled Borrowers — New York Times, 2008.1022 $10.4 Billion Stimulus Package Revives Housing Hope — The Australian, 2008.1021 Hurricane Proof Homes? — Staten Island Live, 2008.1020 RMJM Wins Contest for Istanbul Mixed-Use Scheme — BD, 2008.1020 Fallout from Financial Crisis Hammers Housing — Insurance News Net, 2008.1020 New ANSI Standard Available on Storm Shelter Design — Occupational Health & Safety, 2008.1019 US House Prices Face Long Fall to Bottom: Analysts — Associated Foreign Press, 2008.1019 The Paydays During the Boom — Times Argus, 2008.1019 Slump Will Shrink, Change U.S. Home-Building Sector — Reuters, 2008.1019 US Home Building at 17-Year Low — BBC News, 2008.1017 Housing Shortage Forecast — Stuff, 2008.1016 Home Prices Seem Far from Bottom — New York Times, 2008.1015 The Affordable Housing Complex — Metropolis, 2008.1015 Residential Developers to Face Tough Times — The Age, 2008.1014 In Modern China, ‘Little Kingdoms’ for the People — New York Times, 2008.1013 Growth Economics on a Finite Planet — New York Times, 2008.1013 Should Taxpayers Fund the American Dream? — Los Angeles Times, 2008.1013 Dissecting McCain's Bailout Plan — Motley Fool, 2008.1013 Pending Home Sales Up Strongly — Imperial Valley News, 2008.1013 Modern No More — Sarasota Herald Tribune, 2008.1013 Habitat for Humanity Project Revives Old Fears — Tennesean, 2008.1013 From Subprime to Stock Swoon — The Globe and Mail, 2008.1013 Irish Construction Slumps as Home Building Declines — Bloomberg, 2008.1013 Rally Skips Most Home Builders, Hit by Dour Commentary — Reuters, 2008.1013 Low-Rise D.C. Skyline under Pressure to Look Upward — Seattle Times, 2008.1012 None Heeding Building Code, No Monitoring — Daily Star, 2008.1012 A Small Price to Pay — Providence Journal, 2008.1012 Builders Use Old-Style Details in New Home Construction — Dallas Morning News, 2008.1012
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