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design portfolio: close calls
sometimes, fitting in means standing out—just a little.
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The Ten Commandments of Women-Centric Design
It's undeniable that women are a consumer powerhouse, making up to 83 percent of all U.S. consumer spending decisions.
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Vision of Future Homes Taking Shape
The home of the future will be two stories, with a one-story entry foyer, and either no living room, or one that will end up serving more as a parlor or library. Consumers buying upscale homes will demand two master bedroom suites and an outside kitchen stocked with all the latest amenities -- all standard, says Gopal Ahluwalia, staff vice president for research for the National Association of Home Builders.
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On Site: Light Construction
Beneath the gray Northwest sky, a builder's own home undergoes a sunny transformation.
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Demand Sprouts for Green Roofs
Commercial projects in the U.S. increasingly incorporate green roofs, and now interest from home builders and owners is growing as well.
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product picks from the pros
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Home Buyers Warm to In-floor Heating
Radiant floor heating just might be the oldest luxury heating technique in history. Roman engineers, faced with the task of heating their enormous bath houses, developed their own floor heating system called the hypocaust: a floor raised on pillars over a hot furnace, creating warm floors and a toasty room.
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Hanley Wood's Boyce Thompson on Trends That Will Reshape Home Building
In this free 30-minute audio-and-text Web-based presentation, the editorial director of the BUILDER group identifies the major trends that he expects to influence the industry during the next five years—and points out business opportunities that forward-looking builders can position themselves to exploit now. Sponsored by Owens Corning Cultured Stone.
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noteworthy exhibit: public housing in new orleans
The Ogden Museum of Southern Art is showing photographs of New Orleans public housing taken by leading New York Times photo-journalist Fred R. Conrad. The photographs document the current condition of the interiors and exteriors of the housing developments giving evidence to what tenants, housing activists, and preservationists have been saying since Katrina: most of the apartments in public housing in New Orleans were untouched by the storm. Read more about this exhibit and other events in the newly redesigned ra calendar.
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