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Architecture and the Lost Art of Drawing

Posted by on Apr 12, 2013 in News | 0 comments

Source: New York Times By MICHAEL GRAVES Published: September 1, 2012 IT has become fashionable in many architectural circles to declare the death of drawing. What has happened to our profession, and our art, to cause the supposed end of our most powerful means of conceptualizing and representing architecture? The computer, of course. With its [...]

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Pricey Loomis homes again attracting Bay Area buyers

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Source: Sacramento Bee By Hudson Sangree and Phillip Reese hsangree@sacbee.com Published: Sunday, Sep. 2, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1D With its million-dollar homes surrounded by vineyards, the Sierra de Montserrat subdivision in the foothills of Placer County looks a lot like the Napa Valley landscape it's trying to emulate. Developers of the Loomis [...]

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Home ‘flippers’ grab an increasing share of Sacramento housing market

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Source: Sacramento Bee By Hudson Sangree hsangree@sacbee.com Published: Saturday, Oct. 27, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 1A Homebuyers in today's market are likely to encounter a lot of fresh paint and spruced-up bathrooms. That's because flipped houses, renovated and quickly resold for profit, make up a larger share of the Sacramento region's housing market [...]

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Upscale Project Tapestri Square Sees Buyer Surge

Posted by on Apr 9, 2013 in News | 0 comments

Upscale Project Tapestri Square Sees Buyer Surge

Nobody bought a house in 2008 or 2009 at Tapestri Square in midtown Sacramento, and construction halted. The following two years brought just a handful of sales. Through it all, developer Kevin Noell soldiered on, hopeful that the market would recover and he could finish the 58-unit, brownstone-style tract he started in 2007. Now the [...]

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