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...family's current four-room dwelling, for which they pay $30 a month in rent, is owned ! by a coal company. Taped to the kitchen wall is a newspaper article with a drawing of a house with floor plans. Nancy calls it "our dream house." With its dormer windows and steeply pitched roof, the structure looks more suited to suburbia than to this West Virginia hollow. But it has four bedrooms...
Briggs now has suites with common rooms and private bathrooms. Some split-suites on the fourth and fifth floors have skylights or dormer windows, said Stephen L. Buffo '86, who was a Cabot House Committee student representative for the renovations...
...Aspen, Colo. It is a stew of historical references: "An Art Nouveau grandfather clock with arts-and-crafts overtones," says Venturi, and overlaid with suggestions of tree house, pagoda and the intimate precision of the Finnish master Alvar Aalto. Outside, it is an aggressive little building, with its oversize dormer windows, tight walls and thick compressive hat of a roof. Inside, the Mission style takes over, providing an enveloping timber womb in the form of a vaulted sitting room on the top floor-one of the most romantic and picturesque spaces, like an old Polish synagogue, that recent architecture...
...investigative commission, headed by Andreas Dormer, the Dutch chief justice of the European Court, ran into a roadblock in attempts to probe the prince's financial transactions. Swiss authorities, who fiercely resist disclosure of bank records, warned that Donner would face arrest for "economic espionage" if he dared set foot on Swiss soil in his investigative capacity. Later, under Dutch pressure, the Swiss Cabinet scheduled a special meeting to decide what assistance, if any, to give the Donner commission...
...towns are to serve as coun-termagnets to London, to draw businesses from the capital, as well as white-collar workers tired of ever-lengthening commuter travel between London and its "dormer" suburbs. The new communities are to be self-contained, with living, working and playing space close together and hence little need for commuting...