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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 New York: Go Downtown in the Downturn — The Times (London), 2008.1107Deteriorating Home Market Puts GMAC Unit at Risk — New York Times, 2008.1106 Office Tenants Flee Manhattan Rents for Brooklyn — New York Times, 2008.1105 Transit Agencies Seek Aid in Avoiding A.I.G. Fees — New York Times, 2008.1105 The Great Planning Swindle — This is London, 2008.1104 U.K. Home Builders Demand 1% Interest Rate Cut — LocalGov, 2008.1104 U.S. Manufacturing Nosedives — , 2008.1104 Ottawa's Library of Parliament Caught in $21M Lawsuit — Montreal Gazette, 2008.1103 Indian Builders Lure Home Buyers with Free Cars, Gold — Associated Foreign Press, 2008.1103 Construction Spending Falls Less Than Expected — Associated Press, 2008.1103 Building Insurer Absorbed by Parent — Sydney Morning Herald, 2008.1103 Housing Market Skewed by Grants — The Australian, 2008.1103 Mexico's Most Distinguished 20th-Century Architect Built a Masterly Home All His Own — Statesman, 2008.1102 Feeling the Wall Street Pinch at Home — New York Times, 2008.1102 At Meadowlands Stadium, Lots of Bells and Whistles — New York Times, 2008.1031 U.K. Home-Building Halved by Crunch — Financial Times, 2008.1031 Weyerhaeuser 3Q Net Soars on Divestitures; Home Operations Weak — CNN, 2008.1031 Australian Newly Built Home Sales Fall Accelerated in September — Bloomberg, 2008.1031 The Post-Materialist: Paris Reborn — New York Times, 2008.1030 After the Building Boom — Wall Street Journal, 2008.1030 Airports Grow Apace, but the Timing Seems Off — New York Times, 2008.1030 Planning Reforms to Speed Up Home Building — Inside Housing, 2008.1029 Original Team Tries to Revive Starbucks — New York Times, 2008.1029 Housing Market Comeback Depends on First-Time Buyers — Australian Broadcasting Company, 2008.1028 Study Notes Fewer Loans to Hispanics and Blacks — New York Times, 2008.1028 Lumber Industry Threatened by Glut of Unsold Homes — Baltimore Sun, 2008.1027 Unexpected Rise in New US Home Sales — Financial Times, 2008.1027 California Faith Groups Fight Banks on Foreclosures — Bloomberg, 2008.1027 California Faith Groups Fight Banks on Foreclosures — Bloomberg, 2008.1027 Mortgage Prospects Dim for Illegal Immigrants — Wall Street Journal, 2008.1022
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