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Design: One-Storey Wonder (Independent)

Sitting in a picture-perfect spot, surrounded by woodland and overlooking a glorious valley landscape, John Carver and Anna Carloss's home rehabilitates the idea of the English bungalow. While in California and Australia, single-level living is a way of life and bound up with notions of designer sophistication, here the bungalow still carries connotations of a very different kind. But Carver ...

'The Smell' of Gowanus Canal May Be Sponged Away (The New York Sun)

Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal has long been known as a stinky body of liquid contaminants, but a landscape architecture design firm and community advocates are aiming to transform its shores into a "sponge" park between the Third Street and Carroll Street bridges. The eco-friendly public park would reduce contaminants flowing into the canal by putting the water through a sponge system. Rainwater ...

National expert on growth joins U. architecture faculty (Deseret Morning News)

The University of Utah's College of Architecture + Planning increased its stature Tuesday by the appointment of a national expert on the growth of communities and urban sprawl.

Dresden won't be dropped from world heritage list (AFP via Yahoo! News)

UNESCO's World Heritage Committee meeting in this oldest of Canadian cities decided Thursday not to de-list the eastern German city of Dresden from its prestigious list of protected world sites.

UNESCO keeps Dresden as World Heritage Site (AP via Yahoo! News)

U.N. officials decided Thursday to retain the eastern German city of Dresden as a World Heritage Site for now despite earlier warnings that the construction of a bridge endangered its status.