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Projects We Like: The Sycamore Model at Georgetown Village

Green production housing for the middle market is perfectly doable, and Green Builders of Austin, Texas is showing how it’s done.


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Projects We Like: The Kootenai

Bigfork, Montana

The developers behind this high brow restoration in the Montana wilderness hope to win second home buyers with a piece of history.

 

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The 2008 Watermark Awards

Conventional wisdom hits the chopping block in this year’s kitchen and bath competition.


 

Design Showcase

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2007 Gold Nugget Awards: Fields of Gold

They are greenfields, brownfields, grayfields, and desert outposts. The 44th annual Gold Nugget Awards celebrate Western projects that...

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Builder's Choice

The architecture was inspired and the site planning exemplary, but the biggest winner in the 2007 Builder's Choice Awards was Mother Earth.

 
 

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Our definitive annual report on the nation's largest home builders.

 

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    60 Clermont Street, Denver

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    Old Dominion Showhouse, Mclean, Va.

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