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...typical new home was 1,500 sq. ft. Today the McMansion has pushed the figure to 2,300. A small but growing group of architects and homeowners, however, is rejecting the notion that bigger homes mean better lives and for economic, environmental and aesthetic reasons is embracing mini houses, which are often under 1,000 sq. ft. Books like Alejandro Bahamón's Mini House, Michelle Kodis' Blueprint Small, Azby Brown's The Very Small Home and Ricorico's Mini House Style explore how small spaces can be put to ingenious uses. --By Lisa McLaughlin...
...impressed is Porter that he's retaining Ideo's services again for the design of a new hospital. In fact, Ideo is developing something of an expertise in medical reform, also working with clients like the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., to create mini-Ideos--permanent design-research facilities that work like prototype factories within the organizations. The Mayo facility has already created one Ideo-like product: a check-in kiosk based on those e-ticket machines at airports so that Mayo patients don't have to wait in line just to sign...
According to a report on NFL.com, Fitzpatrick became only the second player in history to get a perfect score on the Wonderlic Personnel Test, a sort of mini-IQ exam administered to all combine attendees. Not only that, but he had finished it in an unofficial-record nine minutes...
...days, ending this past Sunday—“biblical.” Lowell House Master Diana L. Eck, a professor of comparative religion and Indian studies, ventured into her House’s courtyard last week in the dead of night to erect a solitary mini-gate she had created from scratch. My mother, meanwhile, refuses to refer to the display by any name other than “The Shower Curtains...
...Drive In’s songs pack a wallop, hitting the ground running in excellent form. The missteps occur when the band attempts to stretch a really great three and a half minutes into a six minute mini-epic that lacks forward motion. Bixler and Rodriguez have forgone that problem, not resting on any patterns—other than some near-patience-breaking extended stretches of ambient noise—for too long. The ambience serves as a segue between the music as they sustain one continuous unit, five segments of which make up the track listing, some with their...