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Thursday night, architects from Huckabee Inc. gave several proposed options, or in laymen's terms, examples of possibilities for changes to the physical sites for Marshall Independent School District campuses.

We would like to commend Huckabee Inc. for giving a plethora of examples of what changes could be done to MISD schools, i.e. from building new schools to renovations.

After supplying the committee with an abundance of facts and figures last week, Huckabee Inc. came back this week with a clearer presentation. This was in part due to bond steering committee members asking viable questions and prodding the architects and financial advisers to find different answers.

Thursday afternoon, Huckabee Inc. staff met first with the MISD Board of Trustees for a workshop. The trustees presented similar concerns to the architects that steering committee members had at last week's meeting.

Using language that was universal during the MISD board workshop and the steering committee meeting, the architects personalized their original estimations by sharing building quality examples from schools in districts similar to MIS, such as Sabine and Longview.

Where initial costs that were presented as hypotheticals last week, that caused committee members and trustee members to panic, this week's proposals were acceptable as the architects seemed to put themselves in the Marshall's citizens' shoes.

Basically, the architects appeared to "hear" what was being asked and issues of concern that were discussed.

And, let's face it, that doesn't normally happen in the business world. A business doing what the architects are doing are stereotypically concerned with the bottom line or what profit it will incur.

We encourage the steering committee members to keep asking questions and assigning homework to the architects. The more you ask, the more they look for other possibilities.

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Its two down, three to go for Michigan developer Village Green.

The suburban Detroit company broke ground Friday on a 264-unit luxury apartment and retail development at SouthSide Works, one of two it has under construction in the city.

But Village Green, one of the countrys largest privately owned luxury apartment owners and operators, wont be stopping there. In remarks afterwards, CEO Jonathan Holtzman said the company anticipates building three more apartment communities in Pittsburgh in the coming years.

Were working on a number of other locations. Nothing to discuss today, but we see other neighborhoods that could use the modern building that were proposing here, he said.

Construction of the Southside Works City Apartments at Sidney and 26th streets actually started earlier this month, with the first units to be ready in early 2016.

The complex will feature a mix of nano, studio, convertible, one- and two-bedroom apartments, and penthouses. The nano apartments, about 10 percent of the total, will measure 400 square feet in size and rent for about $1,000 a month. Mr. Holtzman said they will serve as an affordable unit for those earning as little as $35,000 a year.

Southside Works City Apartments also will include 12,000 square feet of commercial space and a 562-space parking garage. One of the options being considered for the retail space is a specialty market. Among other amenities are an indoor/outdoor swimming pool, concierge services, a 24-hour fitness room, and a Zen garden and courtyard park.

The Village Green complex is the third apartment project in the works near SouthSide Works. Oxford Development Co. is erecting a $26 million, 173-unit building at Sidney and Hot Metal streets and developer Ralph Falbo is constructing 56 one-bedroom units on South Water Street.

Village Greens other current project in Pittsburgh is the 213-unit Morrow Park apartment complex at Liberty Avenue and Baum Boulevard in Bloomfield. It should be finished in the third quarter this year.

Mr. Holtzman said the developer is in Pittsburgh for the long haul. We do not build to sell. We do not build to convert to condominiums. We are going to own and operate this apartment community long-term, he said.

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Just four months after announcing the elimination of 30 positions because of declining enrollment, California University of Pennsylvania officials revealed the school's newly renovated presidential residence labeled by some on campus as The Palace.

The price for work in the home of interim Cal U President Geraldine Jones was more than $800,000, exclusive of labor and architectural services provided by university staff, according to school records.

University tradesmen did this wonderful work, Jones said as she and her husband, retired Hewlett Packard executive Jeffrey Jones, led a tour of their sprawling, 4,800-square-foot, two-story apartment in historic South Hall.

During the tour, Geraldine Jones adamantly defended the investment.

It is work that is meant to last for decades. This is an asset for the university, the same as when we restored other buildings on campus, Jones said.

But some students on the Washington County campus who have endured tuition and fee increases year after year are not quite as effusive about the yearlong project, which involved thousands of man-hours by four dozen university employees to install a commercial-grade kitchen; crystal doorknobs; an Italian marble entryway with sparkling beveled glass globe lights; a coffered ceiling featuring 196 cuts; and $57,000 worth of draperies for 33 new windows.

Senior environmental science major Samantha Hartman said, It's crazy to put all this money into renovations when we have to pay for printer paper and parking passes.

It's a lot of money for a residence for the president, said Annmarie Hayes, a senior pre-med major.

The head of the school's faculty union said the renovation, although pricey, is preferable to a plan offered during the tenure of former Cal U President Angelo Armenti to construct a new home for the university's leader.

If we're in a search for a new president, upgrading it was probably something that had to be done, said math professor Barbara Hess. You've got to have something attractive during a search, and I hear we're going to be in one very soon.

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The Umbrella House, described as "one of the five most remarkable houses of the mid twentieth century" by Architectural Digest, was built in 1953 as a model home for developer Phil Hiss' Lido Shores

SARASOTA - The Umbrella House, a centerpiece of the Sarasota School of midcentury modern architecture, has changed hands for $1.6 million.

The Paul Rudolph-designed house, at 1300 Westway Drive, was sold by Vincent and Julie Ciulla to their neighbors across the street, retired Wyeth pharmaceutical company CEO Bob Essner and his wife, Anne.

The Ciullas, museum exhibit designers, bought the house for $1.2 million in 2005 from Carol and Gary Stover, who had restored the interior. The Stovers owned the home from 1997 to 2005.

The Ciullas then replaced the air-conditioning system and the roof, and also rebuilt a portion of the shading structure that gave the iconic house its name when it was completed in 1953.

The Essners, in turn, plan to reconstruct the remainder of the so-called "umbrella" -- a post-and-beam structure with slats that provided shade for both the house and the pool, said Elliott Himelfarb of the Sarasota Architectural Foundation, who has spoken with the new owners.

The Ciullas rebuilt the umbrella, which was lost to a tropical storm in the late 1960s, only over the house itself.

The Umbrella House isn't the Essners first foray into buying a Rudolph-designed residence. The couple also own the Rudolph-designed Harkavy House on Morningside Drive, in Lido Shores.

They intend to make the Umbrella House available to the foundation for dinners and other events, Himelfarb said.

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The new tower at Orlando Regional Medical Center was designed to be hospitable and to make those inside feel as if they were at home, rather than in an institution. The lobby area features lots of natural light, live orchids, richly colored damask seating, art of water lilies and a whimsical light fixture made of blown-glass balls.

As homes go, the place was large -- 245 bedrooms and 345,000 square feet. And though it looked and felt like a home in many ways, the new 10-story building I toured recently was really a hospital in disguise -- a feat of decorating ingenuity, to be sure.

The architects' objective was "to create a home for 245 patients," said the news material handed to those of us previewing America's newest hospital tower, a $300 million structure at Orlando Regional Medical Center in Florida, which on Monday admitted its first "overnight guests."

If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then we who care about making homes beautiful, comfortable and nurturing just got a Dallas-size compliment. The designers get this universal truth: There's no place like home, especially when you're sick. Much of what they've done to make the large institutional space feel homey they learned from home designers.

"Our biggest design challenge was to make the hospital feel hospitable," said Karen Guindi, the interior designer at the helm of the project, who designed high-end hotels before hospitals.

It was with great curiosity that I checked out what sleight of hand was used to take the edge off the facts that your bed is a gurney with side rails, that people talk in the hall at all hours and leave the lights on, that everyone who visits you needs to wash their hands and that just when you fall asleep somebody sticks you with needles.

Seems to me it would take more than pretty art, high-definition television and a comfy sofa to gloss over such facts.

"Our mantra was: This is not an institution," said Guindi, who chatted with me in the art-filled lobby after the tour. "It's a healing environment, designed with home, hospitality and nature in mind."

But Guindi also had to adjust her designs to stand up to heavy traffic and heavy use -- the kinds our homes endure (spilled coffee, dirty shoes on nice furniture, facedown pizza), only more so.

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