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Visiting Fuller's house today requires a $14 ticket. In a landscape packed with planes, trains, and vehicles of all kinds, the sparkling body of the Dymaxion House makes a striking appearance.
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Gregory Ain's small houses of the 1930s were completed in a historical context in which the "small house" emerged as a typology of primary importance to architects.
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Given the urgency of our response to climate change and other environmental needs, is it really okay to keep building new non-green buildings? Here are nine U.S. firms that took sustainability to heart and made green design a centerpiece of their work, and have now taken the next logical step: they have committed to create only green buildings, from here on out.
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More Building Culture Write-Downs Continue for Home Builder Lennar — Inside Futures, 2009.0625Denver Moves Closer to a New Zoning Code — Examiner, 2009.0624 Revive U.S. Housing by Killing Cars and 'Spurbs' — Huffington Post, 2009.0624 Top Award for Derry Architects — Derru Journal, 2009.0624 Greening the Coffee Capsule Business — New York Times, 2009.0624 Magnificent Architecture in Chicago — Taiwan News, 2009.0624 Prince Charles's Spat with Architect Stokes Debate over Monarchy — Washington Post, 2009.0624 Back to Memorial Coliseum — Oregonian, 2009.0624 Ten Things an Architect Does to Add Value — Data Manager Online, 2009.0624 Restoring Harrisburg — Metro Spirit, 2009.0624 Economic Slump Rakes Architecture Industry — Business Gazette, 2009.0624 The Death and Transformation of the American Architect — Examiner, 2009.0624 A Bubble of Diplomats and Officials Is Set to Pop — New York Times, 2009.0623 W. Philip Cotton Jr.: Preservationist Architect, Dies — St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 2009.0623 More Home Builder Bankruptcies Seen Possible — Reuters, 2009.0622 Thornton to Modernize 'Historical' Home — Northwest Indiana and Illinois Times, 2009.0622 Is the I.E.'S New Home Market Slowly Rebounding? — San Bernardino and Inland Empire Sun, 2009.0621 The Unfortunate Location — New York Times, 2009.0618 Historic District Overlay? — Orange County Review, 2009.0618 Oldest Firehouse to Get New Lease on Life — Boston Globe, 2009.0618 Dymaxion Redux — ArchitectureWeek, 2009.0617 U.S. Engineers Win Spanish Science Prize — TMC Net, 2009.0617 A Historic Scottish Castle Becomes a Home — New York Times, 2009.0617 SF Rent Below $1,000? — San Francisco Chronicle, 2009.0617 Did Prince Charles Abuse His Power? — The Times (UK), 2009.0616 IMF Raises Forecast for U.S. Economy, Risk of Debt — Bloomberg, 2009.0615 Fire Destroys Historic Church — New York Daily News, 2009.0615 Homebuilder's Trial Set to Begin — Cincinnati Enquirer, 2009.0615 Home Builders' Sales Expectations Fade Slightly — Market Watch, 2009.0615
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