Living Smart Houses - What's New? |
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Good Neighbors: Five likeable projects prove that not all teardowns warrant a crackdown |
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Builder Magazine - January, 2008 - national trade mag for NAHB.
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Houses That Make History
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Portland Spaces - January, 2008 - Click through to 2004. Vargas homes are immortalized in the history books of Portland housing.
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Slim picks: New Living Smart homes give shape to Portland's goals for 'skinny-lot' design |
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Oregonian - July 8, 2007 - When Prairie View Homes broke ground on side-by-side townhomes on 25-foot-wide lots in Portland's Eastmoreland neighborhood last fall, to neighbors it might have looked like a familiar scene -- another pair of bland-looking, low-budget skinny houses squeezed into the space of one older home. [Read More]
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Skinny-house winners to get their first test |
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Oregonian - It's been four years since public outrage about so-called "skinny houses" led to a city-sponsored competition to create better designs. Now the designs are being put to use in North, Northeast and Southeast Portland. [Read More]
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Developer Jack Wagnon gives shape to winning designs for skinny homes |
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Oregonian - February 17th, 2007 - New homes on skinny, urban infill lots aren't always popular with well-established neighbors who sometimes perceive them as tall, thin eyesores. [Read More]
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Skinny house contest designs put to test |
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Oregonian - October 4th, 2006 - Neighborhoods - Infill homes being built in Portland use ideas from the Living Smart Project. [Read More]
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Living Smart becomes reality for 2 Portland neighborhoods |
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Daily Journal of Commerce (DJC) - September 19th, 2006 - Portlanders will soon get a glimpse of smart solutions to infill design in two city neighborhoods. Ground broke Friday in North Portland on the first homes to be built using designs from the city’s Living Smart design competition. The effort by area developer Jack Wagnon will bring Portland architect Bryan Higgins’ design to life for the second time – the design originally took form as Higgins’ own home – on an infill lot. [Read More]
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Press Release - Area Developer First to Break Ground on Living Smart Houses |
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Bureau of Development Services (BDS) - On Friday, September 15 at 10:00 am, Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard will join area developer Jack Wagnon of The Wagnon Company to break ground on the first Living Smart homes at 8172 North Haven. [Read More]
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