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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 Starchitect of the Second Empire — New York Times, 2010.1118A Primer on Toronto Architecture — BlogTo, 2010.1118 Future of Historic Library in Limbo — Desert Sun, 2010.1117 Welders Arrested over Shanghai Inferno — The Australian, 2010.1117 Mortgage Rates Rise, Applications Fall to Four Month Low — Wall Street Journal, 2010.1117 The Appraisal Racket: Why the Housing Bubble's Burst Failed to Align the Home-Appraisal Business with Reality — Slate, 2010.1116 Home Building to Slide Further — Montreal Gazette, 2010.1115 Homebuilder Stocks Down Across the Board Monday — HousingWire, 2010.1115 Lowe's Misses as Shoppers Put Renovations on Ice — ABC News, 2010.1115 No Breaks for Robo-Signing Computer Stamping Mortgage Documents — Bloomberg, 2010.1115 Billionaire Investor Says Now Is Right Time to Give Home Loans — Irish Times, 2010.1115 Improving Economy, Low Mortgage Rates to Boost Housing Sales in B.C., CMHC Says — Vancouver Sun, 2010.1115 Mortgage-Bond Yields That Guide U.S. Home Loans Climb to Four-Month High — Bloomberg, 2010.1115 Hike in Drywall Costs Expected to Hammer Builders — Philadelphia Inquirer, 2010.1115 The Coolest Townhouse in Town Becoming a Landmark — New York Observer, 2010.1115 A Short History of the Kitchen — Varsity, 2010.1115 Death by Design: Toronto's Grand Experiment in Alternative Living — Varsity, 2010.1115 Steampunk Victorian Home Breathes New, Quirky Life into Antiques — Sharon Advocate, 2010.1115 Vann Molyvann: Cambodia's Forgotten Architect — Los Angeles Times, 2010.1114 He Sounded the Housing Alarm, but to No Avail — Washington Post, 2010.1114 Downsizing the American Dream: The Shrinking House — USA Today, 2010.1114 The School That Ate New York: NYU's Ambitious Plans for Expantion — New York Magazine, 2010.1114 Can Wellness Be a Priority in Plans for Future Growth? — Sacramento Bee, 2010.1114 Like-Minded Denver Architects and Lay People Share Passion for Architectural Classics — Denver Post, 2010.1114 Zog House: Half Together, Half Apart — Guardian, 2010.1113 Smart Move at Small Scale, Big Change — Architect's Newspaper, 2010.1112 Bonus Scheme to Spur New Home Building — Reuters, 2010.1112 A Slow Renaissance for a Struggling Neighborhood — New York Times, 2010.1112 Westchester Homes in Winner's Circle — New York Times, 2010.1112 Not Built to Last: China's Overused Wrecking Ball — Time, 2010.1110 From Ex-Mental Hospital to a New Mixed-Use Life — New York Times, 2010.1109 Scale Fannie and Freddie Down - but Don't Do so Just Yet — Boston Globe, 2010.1108 Building a New Life after Their Old Home Was Razed — New York Times, 2010.1107 In Construction, Homes Are the Good News — New York Times, 2010.1105 Stately Home Awaits the Return of a Political Son — New York Times, 2010.1104 Protecting Your Home from Afar with a Robot — New York Times, 2010.1103 Why Growth Will Stay Too Weak to Ease Unemployment — New York Times, 2010.1101 A Gut Renovation, with the Secret Service Watching — New York Times, 2010.1101 Developers' Effort to Warm a Lobby Leaves Some Cold — New York Times, 2010.1026 Public Housing Repairs Can't Keep Pace with Need — New York Times, 2010.1024
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