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Re: Dubai skyscaper?
Upcoming tv program on Dubai: Burj Khalifa - Wikipedia http://tvlistings.zap2it.com/tvlistings/ZCProgram.do?method=3DgetDetail&pgmI=d=3DSH009455570000&sch=3D1210276800000&stn=3D24959&chn=3D68...
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Werner Ladder
Well, I hope teh folks who'd mentioned Werner Ladders here some months back were/are right re: their quality - I just ordered a Werner 26-Foot 300- Pound-capacity Multi-Ladder - it's an...
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Re: Tips for Helping Sell your House Faster
"Don" wrote in news: Here's a tip. **Clean the place** I've done a lot of home-shopping over the years, and I'd say that a good 80% at least of the places look like dumps - dirty walls,...
 
drafting leads
Most of my drawings are done on white craft paper... It was long ago when I was taught about the different leads.. So what lead is best...
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"Green Building and Remodeling"
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Sunlight-In-A-Bulb
And just when I thought LED's would replace my bulbs, there's possibly this soon: becoming a favourite. :)
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Shipping Container Architecture
Many examples of using shipping containers as architectural elements: Firmitas.org
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hello..
any architect here?
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"Minimal, elaborate, excessive - and then back again. This is the pattern that architectural fashion, which the most earnest disciples of modernism in the 1920s hoped to abolish, has tended to follow."
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/architecture/story/0

Architecture might be slow-moving compared with fashion, yet in its epochal way it can move in similar cycles, writes Jonathan Glancey

 
How to find a local architect
Call your local AIA. Every single AIA refers architects looking for your kind of work, however large, however small. You can request several names so you can get several perspectives. Galina. PS....
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Re: Downright Spooky
What about the other identical tiles? Green and red? Optical Illusions 4 Kids: Color Contrast Optical Illusion
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Rn Architect-related Question
Hello, Group, OK, I'm trying to talk my cousin into at least considering having her own place built. She lives in the general area of Greenville, South Carolina. The goofy thing is that I...
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please help
respected members, I am student of Diploma in architecture (3 years course), please tell can i become member of Indian Institute of Architects with out doing B Arch. Please tell, with regards, yuvraj...
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FA Cottages Sir Lawrence Weaver building plans design 1926
Country Life, London [published date: 1926] 402 pp. With 483 illustrations. Strictly speaking, the third edition of "The Country Life Book of Cottages", but so greatly revised and enlarged, that it...
 
Fees for custom residence
I'm looking at having a custom contemporary home designed and built in Santa Barbara, CA, where construction costs for this type of work are purportedly at ~ $500/sq ft. (High-end is substantially...
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