The housing cartel known as Toll Brothers continues its monopolistic reshaping of the American domestic landscape, with vast new tracts of identikit housing, creeping into farmlands, displacing forests, colonizing the plains: New York Times. See also artist Jason Salavon's brilliant housing studies, as featured a few days ago on BLDGBLOG.
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can I get a BLDG|BLOG bumper sticker? It's for my Hummer.
You've only got one Hummer? And he admits it... I already have BLDGBLOG stickers all over my fleet of ULTRA AVs, bro. Complete with gold rims, Tivo, and DVD. Archinect's gotta get in the game! Archinect's gotta get stylin'.
Meanwhile, a more direct link to Jason Salavon...
The Toll brothers... it's not "land", it's "ground".
That was quite a read - it nearly brought up my lunch. And makes me feel I have far too romantic notions of what "home" means, since I can't ever imagine feeling like one of those half a mil McMansions identical to the other 50 in the neighborhood could feel like home.
But isn't it telling - the two top guys at Toll live in an 18th century farmhouse and a 1915 craftsman bungalow?
Yuck. Just, ugh, awful. I don't feel well.
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