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Neo-Metro
Neo-Metro has piped the sleekness, modernity and maintenance ease of stainless steel into bathroom design with its Metaal Suite — a basin and matching toilet.
An Integrated Approach to Custom Home Building
Allora LLC, a new design/build firm based in Greenville, S.C., is attempting to change the way custom homes are built by unifying traditionally separate pro-cesses.
Leadership
Should You Fund An Employee Pension Fund?
As builders struggle to retain staff, benefit packages appear to be playing a larger role in an employee’s decision to remain at or leave a job.
Leadership
A Primer on Company Pension Plans
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Open Season
South Florida’s mild winters are an almost irresistible draw to the discriminating second-home market, custom builder Rick Harwick says.
Design
Outward Bound
Architect Bob Wetmore designed this custom residence in Austin, Texas, for clients who wanted their new home to complement their active lifestyle and satisfy their desire to spend as much time as possible outside.
Design
Star Struck
Just as a star reveals itself gradually in the evening sky, this custom residence on a 55-acre site in central Colorado becomes visible only as one proceeds along a winding, pasture-lined approach from the main highway.
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Maximum Exposure
Perhaps it was the insight gained through more than 30 years of building homes for some of the most discriminating clients in Harrisburg, Pa.
Design
High Style
To create a successful condominium high-rise development dedicated to the luxury home market, it all starts with a great location, says Atlanta builder/developer Jim Henderson.
Design
365 Days of Vacation
As nesting becomes the norm for more and more people, with the home as the hub of all activity, architect Tony Perry says good home design should do two important things: create a vacation home’s look and feel in primary residences, and give people qui...