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The EDAR, a four-wheeled combination cart and sleeping unit created for use by people experiencing homelessness, is beginning to make its presence known in the greater Los Angeles area. Designed by Eric Lindeman and Jason Zasa while still in school at Pasadena Art Center College of Design, this modified shopping cart was their solution to a problem posed by local philanthropist Peter Samuelson: improve upon the cardboard box by designing a mobile, single-person shelter.
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The new medical clinic and community center in the Pictou Landing First Nation in Nova Scotia recalls a longhouse, the traditional winter lodge of the Mi'kmaq. Sustainably harvested spruce poles, six to eight inches (15 to 20 centimeters) in diameter, are bent and lashed together at the tops. Like a giant wooden model of a whale's ribcage, clad with rows of oversized spruce shingles, the peaked frame is an adaptation of traditional Native bent-wood construction.
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More Building and Construction WTC Construction Creates 26,000 Jobs — NYU News, 2009.0312Compulsory Building Insurance under Fire — Sydney Morning Herald, 2009.0310 Concrete Contractor Society Publishes Book of Tolerances — Western Builder Press Release, 2009.0309 Construction Industry Weighing Costs of Clean Air Act — San Diego Business Journal, 2009.0309 House Building 'to Hit 88-Year Low' — Press Association, 2009.0309 New Bushfire Standards to Govern Home Building — Smith Coast Register, 2009.0309 N.Z. Construction Declines, House Prices Fall to Four-Year Low — Bloomberg, 2009.0309 Home Builders Could Be a Risk Worth Taking — Washington Post, 2009.0307 Construction Industry Gets Wake-Up Call — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0306 Affordable Housing Can Be Built at an Affordable Price — Vancouver Sun, 2009.0306 26,000 Jobs Expected from World Trade Center Work — Newsday, 2009.0306 A Hilltop Village of Their Own — New York Times, 2009.0305 Stimulus Spurs Road Projects, Big and Small — New York Times, 2009.0304 Grass-Roots Uprising Against River Dam Challenges Tokyo — New York Times, 2009.0303 January Construction Spending Down 3.3% — Forbes, 2009.0302 As Demand Suffers, Building Products Cos Predict More Pain — CNN, 2009.0302 January Construction Spending Down 3.3% — Forbes, 2009.0302 Slumping Market Forces 2 More Builders to Throw in the Towel — Houston Chronicle, 2009.0302 "Eco-Dome" Plan Nixed in London — International Herald Tribune, 2009.0302 Taos Passes Strict New Building Code — News West 9, 2009.0302 U.K. House Prices Drop Annual 10% — Bloomberg, 2009.0302 There's Still Money in Home Building — Los Angeles Times, 2009.0302 First and Main Building Tops Off — Daily Journal of Commerce, 2009.0302 Calls for UK Gov Funding to Boost Scots House Building — Scottish Architecture, 2009.0302 A Home-Building Ban in an Economic Crisis? — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2009.0301 Home Builders Expect Boost from State Tax Credit — San Diego Union-Tribune, 2009.0227 Design Plan for New Morris A. Mechanic Theatre Draws Criticism — Baltimore Sun, 2009.0227 World Trade Center’S Elevators to Be Among the World’S Fastest — New York Times, 2009.0226 "It's Not the Building, It's the Logistics," Says Architect about Modular Structure — Brooklyn Eagle, 2009.0226
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