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The Washington, D.C., Metro project established Harry Weese & Associates as the country's foremost architectural designer of rail transit systems, and led to the firm's involvement in the planning and conceptual design of systems in cities in North America and overseas, including Miami, Los Angeles, Dallas, Buffalo, Toronto, and Singapore. Jack Hartray characterized the Metro as the "greatest architectural opportunity" of the 20th century, and Stanley Allan called it the "crown jewel" in the history of the Weese firm's commissions.
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TEACHING DESIGN/BUILD: STUDIO 804 Studio 804, which takes its name from the final design studio within the graduate architecture program at the University of Kansas, compresses every aspect of design/ build practice into an intensive five-month experience. In the ten years since the studio began, we've progressed from small-scale projects to creating affordable housing for the city of Lawrence to the point at which students now design, build, and install prefabricated homes for entry-level buyers in Kansas City.
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Just over 100 miles (170 kilometers) from Freiburg, Germany, the city of Ulm straddles the banks of the Danube River, and although the two cities' cathedral squares — Münsterplätze — have slightly different birthdates, they are virtual twins. They grew up over the same five-and-a-half centuries, only to be laid low in the same bombing raids of 1944.
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More Building Culture Old Mistakes for an Old City — Haaretz, 2010.1111NY Architect Shows Corbusier in New Light — Times of India, 2010.1111 Calgary Multi-Family Starts Soar, Single-Detach Units Decrease — Calgary Herald, 2010.1108 Condo Construction Behind 30% Rise in Montreal Housing Starts — Montreal Gazette, 2010.1108 Real Estate Agents' Ranks Likely to Shrink Further, Experts Say — Dallas Morning News, 2010.1108 First-Time Mortgage Defaults in U.S. Rise for 1st Time in Year — Bloomberg, 2010.1108 What in the World Is Going on inside Bank of America? — Huffington Post, 2010.1108 Scale Fannie and Freddie Down - but Don't Do so Just Yet — Boston Globe, 2010.1108 Ontario Leads Home Building Decline — Montreal Gazette, 2010.1108 Affordable Housing Is Key to Cutting Benefit Bill — Guardian, 2010.1108 Home Sales Could Enter 'Virtuous Cycle' — International Business Times, 2010.1108 Where Address No. 4 Can Lower a Home's Value by Thousands — Toronto Star, 2010.1108 Berlin Design Hotels: Goodbye to the Old — Telegraph, 2010.1108 Pompeii Building Collapse Prompts Calls for Privatisation of City — Guardian, 2010.1107 Homeowners Say Loan Mods Led Them to Foreclosure — Associated Press, 2010.1107 Building a New Life after Their Old Home Was Razed — New York Times, 2010.1107 The Poetic Architect — Ottawa Citizen, 2010.1106 Can Igloos Save Haiti's Homeless? — Toronto Star, 2010.1106 Enjoyable Spaces Designed by Decree — Austrailian, 2010.1106 Frank Gehry's Landmark Schnabel House, Updated Oh so Carefully — Los Angeles Times, 2010.1106 The Poetic Architect: Every House Should Have Light, Flow and Poetry, Says Award-Winning Architect — Ottawa Citizen, 2010.1106 Action Architecture at CA Design Biennial — Architect's Newspaper, 2010.1105 In Construction, Homes Are the Good News — New York Times, 2010.1105 US Pending-Home-Sales Index -1.8% to 80.9 in Sept - NAR — Wall Street Journal, 2010.1105 Pending Sales of U.S. Existing Homes Fell 1.8% in September — Bloomberg, 2010.1105 To the Rescue: Lifeboat Station Turned House in South Wales — Financial Times, 2010.1105 Reese Smashed to Pieces — Architect's Newspaper, 2010.1104 Polishing Gaudi's Unfinished Jewel — New York Times, 2010.1104 New Building, Old Look: Developer's Condo Project in Skaneateles Will Replicate Style of Old Building It Replaces — Syracuse.com, 2010.1104 Chic Rules in Coastal Sanctuaries — Austrailian, 2010.1104 Protecting Your Home from Afar with a Robot — New York Times, 2010.1103 Billionaire Mallya Razes Bangalore Home for $4 Million Condos — Bloomberg, 2010.1027
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