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Barbara Erlandson was cruising along the information superhighway when she spotted her dream home on eRealty.com Erlandson, a marketing consultant in Leesburg, Va., saw images of a 200-year-old stucco house with hardwood floors and three fireplaces. That evening she drove by the house and, when she got home, dropped an e-mail to an agent at eRealty. The next day she visited the place with the agent and soon made an offer. A week after closing, she received a rebate check from eRealty for $4,250, equal to 1% of the purchase price...
From the very top of the monastery’s pink stucco tower, Father Roman Ugrinko, the senior bell ringer, points out the Moscow sites that have become familiar to him during his three years at Danilov—the Zil auto factory, the bend of the Moscow river, the sparkle of the Kremlin’s gold onion domes in the distance and the imposing Soviet-style cardboard box buildings that elbow the skyline...
Father Roman is used to feeling his shoulders brush against the stucco walls in this quick, but steep climb. He is in charge of a group of several monks that operate the bells on an everyday basis as well as more elaborate orchestras on holidays...
Adjaye covered the building in a deep brown paint with a stucco-like surface so tough that the British use it to defend utility boxes from graffiti. It turned the house into a mammoth minimalist sculpture, a formidable box that occupies its corner lot with the weight and density of an anvil. Yet seen at close range, the paint is still translucent enough to disclose the lines where successive stages of new brickwork were added over the years, sedimentary layers of the building's history. "I want you to be able to read the story of the place," Adjaye says...
...bottom of the hill follow Kreuzbergstrasse east, until you come to Bergmannstrasse with its Cassata boutique and Logo used records store. If you prefer outdoor markets and health food, don't miss the bio-market at Chamissoplatz on Saturday mornings, just two streets south of Bergmannstrasse. Lined by beautiful stucco buildings, this square sports a dozen dainty stalls that offer organic vegetables, cheese, bread and meat. When you've had your fill of goat's cheese or muesli, hop on the underground and head northeast, getting off at Kottbusser Tor in SO36. Stepping off the train you'll understand...