PB February 2002

Architect William McDonough is a radical. He also is lauded as a pioneer in sustainability, representing ideals admired by green builders.

Home building is a unique business. Consider the assets most other producers list on their balance sheets: physical facilities, manufacturing equipment, warehouses, etc. Now do the same exercise for most home builders.

The company now offers laminated glass as a specification option in various product lines.

Venetian Bronze is a nonglossy finish available on both the Delta Victorian and Delta Select Providence Classic and Williamsburg Classic lines.

Wherever you go in America, strip malls are part of the landscape. That is the beauty of Randy Jackson’s proposed housing solution for land-strapped Orange County, Calif. If it works there, it probably will work in many other places.

If you think Andres Duany and Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk are interested only in peppering the landscape with re-created 19th century villages, guess again.

The Crescent fireplace is designed for the kitchen. It features an arched front design and six ceramic fiber logs with an extended pan burner for glowing embers.

Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra light-duty pickups are available in 1500 and 2500 regular- and extended-cab models, with short or long boxes, two- or four-wheel drive, and a variety of trim levels.

In an era when some of the biggest home building companies are consolidating, the founders of one privately owned company made a very different decision.

Sailhouse is not a story about traditional neighborhood development and New Urbanism, even though this recently opened neighborhood in Corona del Mar, Calif., has been touted as such.